XPost: alt.cooking-chat, soc.culture.thai, rec.radio.shortwave   
   From: krypsis@optusnet.com.au   
      
   On 4/07/2010 7:39 PM, Takin & Kanoknuan wrote:   
   > Robert Johnson was a well-respected popular businessman selling   
      
   Well respected? Surely you jest? He was the butt of all the jokes in the   
   expat community in Chiang Mai and was known to all Thais as "that crazy   
   farang"!   
      
   > wonderful food in Chiang Mai before Kraven came along. Somehow, Kraven   
      
   The food wasn't all that bad. Would have been a lot better if Johnson   
   had taken into account some basic food hygiene practices. That may have   
   prevented a few outbreaks of food poisoning.   
      
   > convinced the ENTIRE city of Chiang Mai (second largest city in   
   > Thailand) to stop buying Robert's products completely, forcing Robert to   
   > sell his business.   
      
   The entire city? Johnson's products were not targeted at Thai people.   
   The products were more suited to western tastes and would only have been   
   bought by Thais who wanted to be seen to be living a western lifestyle.   
   Most of the Thai people I know have yet to be convinced that western   
   food is better than Thai food. Having tried Thai food myself, I can see   
   why.   
   I reckon you need to figure in the food poisoning outbreaks as a prime   
   factor in the sales decline!   
      
   > Kraven did such a good job convincing 1,600,000 people that Robert's   
    > products (or Robert himself) were no good   
      
   I wonder how one person manages to convince over a million and a half   
   people that a particular product is no good? Take over the newspapers?   
   The TV and radio stations? Send out flyers to every home? Strange that I   
   never heard of a foreign takeover of the media in Northern Thailand! Now   
   that would have made the news worldwide. After all, a bunch of Thais   
   taking over a few city blocks recently managed to attract worldwide   
   media attention.   
   No, I think it was Robert Johnson himself, with all his weird antics,   
   who convinced the people of Chiang Mai, Thailand that his products were   
   no good.   
      
    > so he had to sell his recipes, all his food production machines,   
    > delivery trucks, etc., for less than the price of a used car.   
      
   Food production machines?? What rot! Since when does a row of Thai women   
   working at a long bench constitute a "machine"?? I notice you used the   
   plural in "delivery trucks". Since when does one beat up old truck   
   deserve pluralising?? Anyway, he did well out of the sale. After all,   
   his truck, the long bench, the tureens and a few grinders weren't worth   
   all that much anyway. Note, the women weren't included in the   
   "machinery" sale!   
      
    > He even convinced Robert's neighbors to dump all their garbage in   
    > Robert's yard,   
      
   Yes, Asian people do that to those for whom they have lost all respect!   
   Robert Johnson, through his alcoholism and subsequent abuse of Thai   
   citizens, offended his neighbours and was the cause of his own problems.   
      
   > forcing Johnson to have to install five high security cameras around his   
    > property.   
      
   Johnson's neighbours hated him and he knew this. It was Johnson's fear   
   of retribution that forced him to have to install security cameras.   
      
     I don't > know how he did this, but he sure is a bully.   
      
   If you don't know, why assume? To be fair, a little logic, a whole load   
   of common sense, and some knowledge of Robert Johnson should make it   
   rather easy to figure out! In this instance, Robert Johnson was his own   
   worst enemy.   
      
   Krypsis   
      
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