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[Ilsanman]

What country's beef do( would) you buy for the most part?

[RACETRAITOR]

(D) Other.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Near the end of class today with my adult beginners, one student raised his hand (he didn't want to do the last book activity--I didn't blame him). He asked, "Mr. Ya-ta, what think American beef come Korea?" [I told you they are beginners.]

"I'm excited!", I exclaimed, astutely using one of our vocab words of the day (excited/exciting). "Korean beef and American beef are the same in quality." [Holding my fingers together to show 'same quality'] "But American beef is cheap [using yesterday's vocab word], W1,600, and Korean beef is....What's the opposite of 'cheap'?...Yes! That's right, expensive, W6,000!"

At this point the 'conversation' [they've only been in class 2 1/2 weeks] deteriorated. Another student raised his hand and said, "Korea cow rare." We struggled with that one. I thought maybe he was trying to say that there aren't many Korean cows and therefore the price was high, but some of the other students thought he was trying to say 'rare, medium, well-done' and that American beef is tough. I didn't get the connection, but those students speak much better English.

Anyway, they all said 'Everyone knows American beef is tough'. That's the current rumor. (This after I decided that 'American cow is tough' does not mean that American cows go around on Friday night looking for a fight.)

[Ilsanman]

Stunning lack of buyers of korean beef. Truly shocking.

[Homer]

Yeah..stunning.

97 views (as of now) and all of 10 votes. A true scientific survey that proves beyond doubt that K-beef is bad.

Congratulations I-man...

Oh and I did not vote (before you accuse me of voting for K-beef) because I will buy whats on offer and whats the best value (quality and price).

Carry on.

[ChopChaeJoe]

Beef is beef, it's a commodity item IMO.

[sojourner1]

Looks like American beef has landed at Homeplus 2 days ago so I am buying American now since it's like 1100 Won per 100 grams while Korean is 4700 won per 100 grams. I did notice that the flavor is different than Australian and Korea though I would say that Australian is the best. Australian seem to not be offered any longer now that American is available.

[Ilsanman]

Homersexual,

I never once said Korean beef was bad. I did, however, imply that it is way overpriced.

I have no problem with the quality of Korean beef. I do dislike the farmers that produce it, tho.

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

[Ilsanman]

Can you get Canadian beef in Korea? I would buy it if there were some to be found.

[HapKi]

Wow, I can see where this thread's going.
Pull out your flags, ladies.




Corn-fed American beef for me.

[Homer]

Homersexual?

My god that was pathetic...what did you do there I-man dig into your high school bag of insults? But, did you come up with that extremely clever moniker on your own or did someone help you work up to produce such a gem?

Whats next I wonder....

Oh and yes K-beef is pretty damned expensive here. We eat it in restaurants a few times a year (near Kyungju) because it is damn good (the place where we go anyway)...

[xtchr]

If it were available I would buy New Zealand beef, and lamb.

[Ilsanman]

Actually, it was a joke from one of Bart's prank phone calls from the Simpsons. I thought you'd get the joke.

Actually, this thread was not a trash of KOrea. I was genuinely curious about what kind of beef people buy, if they had some concerns about one kind or another (mad cow's, chemicals used, etc.), but of course Super Homer, the saver of Korea's image had to come in and do his thing.

I will apologize about the Homersexual comment, if it hit home a little too closely.

[SPINOZA]

British = best.