[Leica] DEAD PIG -- now Korean food

[ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)]

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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