[Anonymous]

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But what about a spittoon?

That’s a question that will confront prospective buyers of the vessel on Amazon, where it is marketed as fruit baskets and ice buckets.

Chinese merchants on the site are trying to breathe new life into the receptacle of spit and other human waste by rebranding it as something fit for the dinner table. 

Often made of enamel, the spittoon (or chamber pot) is commonly used for spitting. Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously kept one by his feet when he was negotiating Hong Kong’s return

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