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  "path": "/2026/04/03/a-petroleum-engineers-joyless-lunches-went-viral-in-china.html",
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    "china",
    "Food",
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    "Keith Brown",
    "social media",
    "tiktok",
    "viral",
    "posted the videos to Douyin",
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  "textContent": "Keith Brown, a British petroleum engineer, ate the same cheerless sandwiches for lunch every day — dry bread, a slice of something, no condiments — and his wife Zhang Jian filmed them. She posted the videos to Douyin, China's version of TikTok, where audiences were, according to Wikipedia, \"grimly fascinated.\" — Read the rest \n\nThe post A petroleum engineer's joyless lunches went viral in China appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "A petroleum engineer's joyless lunches went viral in China"
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