[Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

I remember seeing them on the zoo cages there.

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> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sonny Carter
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food
> 
> In Louisiana, there's a recipe for damn near everything; If there's not
> one,
> we'll make one up.  ;-}
> 
> 
> 
> 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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> 
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