This & That, Ceci et Cela

CHANGSHA, China — The name may not roll off the tongue quite like American Idol does, but that hasn’t kept the Mongolian Cow Sour Sour Yogurt Super Girl contest from sweeping China.  Like Idol, which named its winner Wednesday night, China’s Super Girl gives aspiring singing stars a shot at televised fame and fortune. And amid an Idol-like mania, young women all over China have lunged at the opportunity. (But only women: There’s no national Super Boy show).

What’s good for the western goose is good for the eastern ganger.  Are cows allowed to enter too, or only if they produce “sour sour yoghurt”?

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