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I still don't understand why they're calling it "China".

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Rebecca

This is a joke that Jessica is making. She's using the fact that China, the country, and "china" the term referring to dishware, are both spelt and pronounced the same. The fact that dishes are referred to as China is actually because porcelain was first produced in China and so porcelain dishware was first developed in China.

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