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aldershot

Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: Trends in Korea |
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Have you noticed the push for "cacao" consumption lately? on nearly every chocolate there's a % indicating how much cacao's in the product. i wonder how long this trend will last until people realize how fat they're getting. |
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billybrobby

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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oh don't be gay |
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aldershot

Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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don't Forget to Use Capitals in Korea, billYrObby, Unless you Are SeriouSly WonderIng why PeoplE think yer an...
awe, c'mon. it's an observation. have you become too clouded in your self-absorbing manner to, i dunno, even if you feel like repyling like you did, to just let it slide?
little trends pop up all over the place in korea: well-being (well-being soju, now?!?), squeeky shoes, aromatherapy... all sorts of things (that aren't exclusive to korea, for certain). again, dinkwad, just making an observation. |
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laogaiguk

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: Trends in Korea |
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aldershot wrote: |
Have you noticed the push for "cacao" consumption lately? on nearly every chocolate there's a % indicating how much cacao's in the product. i wonder how long this trend will last until people realize how fat they're getting. |
That's better than back home. All I saw when I went home for Xmas was "hoodia" everywhere. What is hoodia  |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: Trends in Korea |
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aldershot wrote: |
Have you noticed the push for "cacao" consumption lately? on nearly every chocolate there's a % indicating how much cacao's in the product. i wonder how long this trend will last until people realize how fat they're getting. |
COnsumption of chocolate does not necesarily make you fat, it depends on the quantaty and the content of chocolate.
The darker the chocolate the less calories, but please let people enjoy some bad chocolate, i really should start considering setting up a Belgian Chocolate place, so they can actually enjoy some decent chocolate. |
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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I think I've finally lived in Korea long enough that I don't think Korean chocolate tastes horrible. Well, most of it. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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CasperTheFriendlyGhost wrote: |
I think I've finally lived in Korea long enough that I don't think Korean chocolate tastes horrible. Well, most of it. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Near Seoul
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Same had caught on in Japan. Big Time.
It's because if the Choc has over 65% Cacao content, it is VERY high in Anti Oxidents (Spelling...?)
Actually purportedly very good for health (in reasonable ammounts..)
I'd post the facts but can't be bothered (sorry)
But you can find tons of info about it on the net.
So yeah, If over 65% cacao content, it's really good for you!
Pretty cool eh...?
I think so, cause I love it.
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ajgeddes

Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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My girlfriend eats chocolate like it is going out of style and she is paper thin. She eats that high cacao % stuff that makes your face contort when you put it in your mouth, but she loves it. Me, I just like milk chocolate, but I don't eat a lot anyways as I am not overly crazy about sweets. |
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crazy_arcade
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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It ain't the cacao that's doing the damage...it's the incredible amount of sugar in yer hershey squirts. |
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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Location: Mokpo
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Trends in Korea |
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laogaiguk wrote: |
aldershot wrote: |
Have you noticed the push for "cacao" consumption lately? on nearly every chocolate there's a % indicating how much cacao's in the product. i wonder how long this trend will last until people realize how fat they're getting. |
That's better than back home. All I saw when I went home for Xmas was "hoodia" everywhere. What is hoodia  |
Hoodia is a glucose tolerance supplement, but it's really an herb. it has the same effect as chromium picolinate and vanadium. when you eat sugars, which enter your blood stream, it suppresses the level of the glucose in your blood so that you don't get massive insulin production into the bloodstream and gives you a sugar rush and then tiredness.
but it essentially suppresses appetite like the other two supplements i mentioned.
nearly all diet pills sold in the US contain one, both, or all of these.
diabetics need this supplement. atkins dieters are just people that eat like diabetics. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:12 am Post subject: Gay Korean Men Who Dig Whites Outed by Themselves! |
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billybrobby wrote: |
oh don't be gay |
You read it here: Korean gays who want to stuff or sork off Whitey are legit by, like, 2010.
That's how rapidly the social landscape has been changing in schizo Dae Han Min Guk.
Seriously, how many of you heteros have had yer nads grabbed not only in a bar on Hooker Hill in I'taewon but any frigin' place that has even a token African and/or European male? (Jongro, et-al, don't be embarassed as the Longtimers who've suffered silently here over the years due to their rogueish, albeit queer, ways; youse guys thus have the funniest and most, em, socially educational stories on the block;)
Respectfully,
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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One trend is wallpapering concrete walls. Maybe they love mold.  |
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ella

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: |
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There's a hairstyle right now that looks like a variation on the "pixie," but longer with lots of wispy ends. It's popular with the late teens/early twenties crowd, both boys and girls - the same cut as far as I can tell. They all look like they're on their way to audition as elves in "Lord of the Rings." (Yeah, I had big cheerleader hair in the eighties; it's a phase, I know.) |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:44 am Post subject: |
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ella wrote: |
There's a hairstyle right now that looks like a variation on the "pixie," but longer with lots of wispy ends. It's popular with the late teens/early twenties crowd, both boys and girls - the same cut as far as I can tell. They all look like they're on their way to audition as elves in "Lord of the Rings." (Yeah, I had big cheerleader hair in the eighties; it's a phase, I know.) |
Yeah, and that style looks ajumma-ish too. I hope they know it doesn't look nice. I'll stick with long, flowing hair..sometimes straight and sometimes a little bit wavy. It's what most Korean men prefer anyways. |
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