[Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:

> I find it offensive that when we visit foreign locales, some of us somehow
> feel the right to impose our on values on them.  The dog meat thing in
> Korea
> is certainly one of them.
> A lot of Jews and Muslims would be offended by eating of pigs, and a lot of
> Hindi would be offended by eating of beef.  And a whole bunch of
> holier-than-thou Californians are offended by consumption of anything
> animal-derived.
>
> So, my stance is that in Rome, do as Romans do, and in Korea, do as Koreans
> do.
>
> I am pretty close to being as omnivorous as anyone can get.  I've eaten
> mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and cheliceratae as well.  If
> one's afraid, one shouldn't go to foreign locales.
>
> So how did it taste?  I've heard it's delicious.
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food
> >
> >
> >  HB Arche wrote:>I used to order blind by pointing at things on the menu.
> >> On
> >> my third visit the waitress refused to accept my order - 'not for
> >> americans!'. I thought maybe I'd hit on the dog dish. >When I persisted
> >> she
> >> went for the manager who told me the item was a meat dish but served
> raw,
> >> and she flat refused to let me have it.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Arche,
> > OK here you go with what might be the Korean food story of stories. :-)
> > 1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul Korea. Our photo unit and information section
> > staff decided we'd all go out to a near by Korean restaurant instead of
> > eating in the Press dining room where you could get excellent food from
> > practically every country in the world.
> >
> > But oh no some of the ladies wanted to try Korean food. The twits
> could've
> > ordered it in the Press dining room. But they wanted to go to a real
> > location. Off we go without our translator, about 20 of us to the
> > restaurant. Now you couldn't put two words together in Korean within the
> > lot, so somebody picked up a menu and picked whatever.
> > Korean waitresses kind of looked funny, a couple giggled, off they went
> > with the numbers of each item selected.
> >
> > Dinner arrived, nothing recognizable, the ordering person was told to try
> > it first and if it tasted OK then it was good for all. Main course
> finished
> > and everyone was anxious to know what we'd just eaten?  READY??????
> >
> > One of the Korean waitresses who could speak some English was asked by
> one
> > of the girls, "What was that wonderful dinner we just had?"   Waitress
> > response.... "FRESH PUPPIES!" :-( You could hear a pin drop!
> >
> > Dinner was over right there! It went dead silent until one of the girls
> > began to cry! That did it dinner was finito! None of the crew ever went
> out
> > of the staff dining restaurant again! :-) It's called live and learn on
> the
> > international scene when you don't have your interpreter with you. :-)
> >
> > Dr. ted :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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