[Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

So, how was it?

Here's another. 

About 20 years ago I met a guy in Philly who was getting started in grad 
school at Penn in architecture. Two weeks before he had returned from a 
yearlong Peace Corps stint in an African village, building, and putting in 
wells. He'd made many friends and they'd really appreciated having him 
there, so when it came time for him to leave they threw a big 
banquet/cookout as a send-off. 

As the guest of honor he was given the choicest part of the barbeque: on his 
dish he found two hands from a rather large monkey or ape.

After a year of eating all kinds of stuff he was OK with them, and was 
perfectly willing to dig in, but the problem was he didn't know the 
etiquette for properly eating hands - is it alright to use your fingers?. 
Since he had the only ones being served, he couldn't take his cue from 
watching what everybody else did.

He also told me the funky part about eating large palm grubs was that you 
had to nip their heads with your dogteeth before popping them in your mouth; 
otherwise they might try to bite your tongue or inner cheek.


----- Original Message ----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 5:03:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food

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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