Thursday, July 1, 2010

In a ...what?

In Korea, often times there are things that are so normal to one person and completely flabberghasting to the next person. For instance, food is stored in many different ways from what I'm used to. The meats are stored in a plastic yellow container with a clear wrap over the top, that much hasn't changed. Eating chicken noodle soup out of a bag, with the whole bird intact, that's another experience. Most of all, when I'm sucking a ice cream/milk shake confection up from a plastic tube connected a small, freezer bag, I'm taken aback. That just does not happens. What ever came over eating pints with a spoon? Oh, you still can? But half pints cost around six to eight dollars? Blasphemy! They do have unique flavors readily available like red bean, green tea, blueberry, to name a few. Everything is half-sized, anyway. A can of Mountain Dew? Surely, this baby can can (hehe) satisfy the most hard-core Starcraft PCBanging prepubescent gamer? I think not. Hah, anyway, it makes sense Koreans are typically smaller than Americans. Americans are people who loathe wasting food. Worry not, my friends. Korea is onto something sweet! Quite literally. Oh, and, apparently no pretty stock figures so you get a grainy piece of coal picture of myself and my delicious lunch/breakfast/dinner. :D

1 comments:

  1. I LOVE those ice creams in a bag! Although last time I had one was when I was at the Suwon folk villiage and I managed to sqirt it all ove my skirt - shame!

    I really love flavoured milk, but at home it only comes in big bottles (that you are somehow meant to be able to drink in one go?) so I never by it. But here you can buy it in little servings - yah!!

    I do dislike the amount of packaging in Korean food though:(

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