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mindmetoo
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| The Hammer wrote: |
| Also, Korean corn on the cob is nasty. Sometimes Costco has corn from New Zealand and it is crunchy and tasty. Thanks NZ! |
Yeah. It's rather amazing, really, how far food science has advanced in North America when you consider Korean corn. Tasteless, small kernels. We'd feed that to pigs. You'd never see it on a grocery store shelf. Same with chickens. The whole chickens here are scrawly birds.
Gimme some of that ol' time GMO and hormone farming, I say. Makes for some damn tasty eating.
Back in the late '90s a coworker went to Eastern Europe to teach English. This was shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain. She brought a bunch of picture books. One had pictures of vegetables in a grocery store. The kids were like "THOSE are carrots?" They couldn't believe carrots were, you know, so big. The soils in Eastern Europe were so polluted and their vegetable strains were so primitive, carrots were scrawny little tubers. Not the big red bunches we were used to. |
Yeah, but I would say that Korean carrots are far larger than any of the carrots that I saw back in North America. Makes me wonder how big the rabbits here are.  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| stumptown wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| The Hammer wrote: |
| Also, Korean corn on the cob is nasty. Sometimes Costco has corn from New Zealand and it is crunchy and tasty. Thanks NZ! |
Yeah. It's rather amazing, really, how far food science has advanced in North America when you consider Korean corn. Tasteless, small kernels. We'd feed that to pigs. You'd never see it on a grocery store shelf. Same with chickens. The whole chickens here are scrawly birds.
Gimme some of that ol' time GMO and hormone farming, I say. Makes for some damn tasty eating.
Back in the late '90s a coworker went to Eastern Europe to teach English. This was shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain. She brought a bunch of picture books. One had pictures of vegetables in a grocery store. The kids were like "THOSE are carrots?" They couldn't believe carrots were, you know, so big. The soils in Eastern Europe were so polluted and their vegetable strains were so primitive, carrots were scrawny little tubers. Not the big red bunches we were used to. |
Yeah, but I would say that Korean carrots are far larger than any of the carrots that I saw back in North America. Makes me wonder how big the rabbits here are. |
And how wascalry those Koweean wabbits are! |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Yep all the corn I've eaten in Korea has been crap except the one cob I had on Friday.
I work at a country elementary school. They keep giving me stuff from the school garden, bags of gochu, cucumbers.
On Friday I was given a cooked cob of corn to eat. I was amazed, it was really good!! The school gardener knows what he's doing for sure. |
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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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I get those Del Monte small boxes of canned corn. They are really good sweet corn from the US and are on sale right now for 550 Won per box at Homeplus.
As for corn on the cob here, it's very solid, hard, and dense. |
"really good sweet corn" is an oxymoron. Koreans need everything to be sweet. Sweet bread, sweet potatoes, sweet pickles, etc. |
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jaderedux2
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: lurking just lurking
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Iowa corn is the best!!!!  |
Beg to differ. As a Cornhusker...I CAN definitively say NEBRASKA corn rules supreme in the corn world. While Iowa corn is a good substitute NEBRASKA corn is like manna from heaven.
The corn they have here is feed corn. It is allowed to pollinate and once corn is pollinated the kernels get a bit woody and the flavor is bland and hence we give it to cows as they don't know any better.
Everyone knows that the best eating corn must be detassled. It is horrific job but teens from all over the mid-west make a wad of cash doing this in the summer.
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Jenia
Joined: 13 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: popcorn |
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| This may sound like the stupidest question ever....Can you you get popcorn in Korea... also can you get all the great flavors such as smoked cheddar, butter toffee.... or should I just figure out how to get a flavor popcorn chain started before I leave the US? |
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