Letter: Enough is enough

There is nothing I can do about Chinese products flooding into our country.

Remember when Wal-Mart’s slogan was “Buy American“? I do. Nowadays, walk into a Wal-Mart, Kmart, etc., and I defy you to find a product that has a label that reads, “Made in America.”

But I tell you folks, I have really had it. The other day I walked into a Publix supermarket to purchase a head of garlic. I bought a little mesh bag with three heads of garlic in it and strode happily home. When I got home I started to prepare my favorite traditional feast of pasta fagioli. A little white label popped out of the little white mesh bag and it said, “Grown in China.” I nearly had an attack. I fell back onto the counter and gasped for air. Dear Lord Almighty, they have now cornered our garlic market?

I reached for the telephone and called my Uncle Nucci in Newark, N.J. — you know, the guy with the crooked nose and the big, fat Cuban cigar, and the bulge under his coat. I was gasping for air, but I finally told him of my near attack. After a moment he spoke in a very low growl and said, “Forget about it, Ollie. We will take care of it.”

A couple of days later, I walked into Publix and there were no little white mesh bags of garlic. I went home and said a novena.

Oliver J. Marcelli/Naples