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aussieb
Joined: 08 Sep 2007
Location: Brisbane,Australia
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| jajdude, I saw a seal carcase at the seafood markets in Busan when I was there in January this year. I only saw one so I don't know whether it is for sale regularly. |
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Countrygirl
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
Location: in the classroom
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| My grandparents used to eat lamb when they lived in Argentina but once they moved to Canada they stopped because the quality wasn't as good. I never ate lamb growing up because my mom didn't know how to cook it and neither do I. I've tried a few times, but it wasn't as great as the price tag implied it would be. If I ever go to Australia or New Zealand, I'll be sure to try it again. |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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White people don't eat dogs because they see them as pets and working animals so they have a sentimental attachment to them. Koreans don't have any sentimental attachment to sheep (hopefully). As for it being western, it's more widely eaten in the middle east and Muslim countries. The bad smell (I thing it smells nice but anyway...) could be masked by marinading it like Koreans do with other meats.
Nonsense, lamb is and has been widely consumed and farmed in all of Europe for ages.
I think the reason is just that Koreans wouldn't be sure what to do with it. It isn't in any of their recipe books. It just needs to be packaged and marketed well. Package it with a label "makes a great bulgogi alternative" with some cooking instructions and pictures and the Koreans would love it. |
There is a book by Simon Winchester that tells the story of how Jeju was hit by harsh famines and starvation in the 1950's. The resident Irish priest suggested importing grass seed from Ireland as it grows thicker and can stand winters better so the livestock that there was would have a better chance of survival. This caused outrage and uproar, the idea of importing foriegn grass to Korean Soil lol..... The priest did end up importing it eventually as well as some Irish pigs and the now famous Jeju daeji gogi is actually really related to Irish daiji gogi... (don't try to tell Koreans this, they'll just scoff...)
The Irish also suggested importing and rearing sheep as they could withstand winters better and provide wool and much needed meat.
The Korean response -
'The Japanese tried importing sheep once! Why should we?! We are not Japanese! Sheep are not native to KOREA!!!! Complete irrational and emotional response lol.....
Conversely on the weekends in Itaewon now one can easilly find Koreans chomping down lamb in Indain / Middle Eastern restaurants and kebab shops....
Itaewon is the Soho of Seoul and I hope it stays this way and doesn't become a bland lego apt kit residential area once the US army go South..... |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard Koreans talk about the 'bad smell' of lamb, Indian food, Thai food, etc. However, my fridge is packed with my girlfriend's various kimchi and panchan dishes and whenever the door opens, a stench not unlike shit fills the air. How can Koreans not notice that their beloved dish smells like sewage? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't Koreans eat lamb? |
It's because lamb is considered western. |
What do you mean by that? Americans hardly eat lamb and Canadians don't eat that much lamb. Lamb is more likely to be eaten in Britain than in North America and it is very common among the Greeks and Mediterranean countries which is not exactly Western. I believe the Mongolians eat lamb, but their cousins, the Koreans, don't. Remember, sheep need grazing land. Mongolia is suitable for that, not Korea. More and more Koreans are eating lamb if they are cosmopolitan. |
As I said, Koreans consider lamb as western food. I've heard them commenting as such including my wife.
As other posters have said, they don't like the smell. About the smell, they say "Yang-Nae" which can be translated as smell of western(er). |
Nice try. yang = 양 = sheep
Your wife told you it meant the smell of a westerner? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Ramen wrote: |
| Adventurer wrote: |
| Ramen wrote: |
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| Why don't Koreans eat lamb? |
It's because lamb is considered western. |
What do you mean by that? Americans hardly eat lamb and Canadians don't eat that much lamb. Lamb is more likely to be eaten in Britain than in North America and it is very common among the Greeks and Mediterranean countries which is not exactly Western. I believe the Mongolians eat lamb, but their cousins, the Koreans, don't. Remember, sheep need grazing land. Mongolia is suitable for that, not Korea. More and more Koreans are eating lamb if they are cosmopolitan. |
As I said, Koreans consider lamb as western food. I've heard them commenting as such including my wife.
As other posters have said, they don't like the smell. About the smell, they say "Yang-Nae" which can be translated as smell of western(er). |
Nice try. yang = 양 = sheep
Your wife told you it meant the smell of a westerner? |
羊 & 洋, both of which are 양. The first is sheep and the second is ocean, but the second can also have the context of Westerner, as in, from across the ocean. So Ramen is right, his wife made a pun. |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Once again we have proof that the korean language is 60% a badly pronounced version of chinese.
Seriously I love lamb. I didn't know anyone hated the smell of lamb cooking. Ummm shawarma. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| aussieb wrote: |
| jajdude, I saw a seal carcase at the seafood markets in Busan when I was there in January this year. I only saw one so I don't know whether it is for sale regularly. |
I've had whale. If seal is anything like whale, and I suspect it is, I will definitely pass. out.  |
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KirbyMagnus
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: |
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[quote="desultude"]
| aussieb wrote: |
| jajdude, I saw a seal carcase at the seafood markets in Busan when I was there in January this year. I only saw one so I don't know whether it is for sale regularly. |
I've had whale. If seal is anything like whale, and I suspect it is, I will definitely pass. out. [/quote
Do they sell live seals? I've always wanted an exotic pet.
Has anyone ever done that? Bought a live animal from a food place and kept it as a pet?
I don't understand how some Koreans say they don't like the smell of lamb. Some others have said it: Kimchi smells more than anything. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:43 am Post subject: |
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I can give you a thousand and one tales about why Saudia Arabia is a difficult place to live. But, oh, the lamb!
I was in Morocco in December in time to celebrate Eid al Adha in the desert with a Berber family. First we had to witness the slaughters of the sacrificial lambs, and then we ate for 4 hours. The menu was lamb- starting from the inside "delicasies" and then everything else but the coat and the bleat. Oh, and mint tea. 
It wasn't the best lamb I have had, but it was the most I ever had to eat in one sitting. Also, it was the most authentically prepared and eaten- roasted outside and eaten in a mud house in the Sahara desert. For that reason it will probably remain the best dining experience ever. |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Canadians don't eat that much lamb. |
Really? I had it quite often growing up. Maybe once or twice a month.
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Speaking as someone who grew up on a sheep farm in NZ in the much cheaper 70s, once or twice a month is not considered 'quite often'. 
I really really miss it. |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, a nice roasted shoulder of lamb with that thin layer of fat on top, roasted to perfection with rosemary and thyme served with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, swede mashed with butter and black pepper, spinach covered in thick gravy and topped off with tangy mint sauce.
Couple of hours after pudding, pick at the cold remains from a plate with the old man whilst watching the A-Team or Murder She Wrote on ITV....
Get it in, slam in the lamb.
(I tried to find a pic to post from the net but have to honestly say none of them came even close to looking as good as my Mum's Sunday roast so I just couldn't use any of them, sacraligious...) |
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ds_fan
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| damn id love a lamb indian dish, what is with these people, start feeding me indian food |
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Vancouver
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| there's a restaurant in daejeon called spongy. they serve lamb |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Because Radar freed the Lamb and they made a Spam lamb |
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