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[jkelly80]

아이럽영어캠프!

So far I've seen

mandarin oranges, iceberg lettuce, chocolate m n m's, bananas

bread, jelly, [Mod Edit] tube ham, and peanut butter

bread and honey mustard

finger sandwiches with mandarin oranges and the hellish tube ham

diced up tube ham on lettuce

똥침(많이많이!)

tube ham used as weapon

cornflakes with jelly and mayo on bread

horrible horrible tube ham

anything to add?

[Crockpot2001]

As a guest at a local summer camp held at a University, I met a Korean Registered Dietitian managing the foodservice. It would be safe to assume she chose the menu. It featured boiled potatoes with pancake syrup, rice, fried seaweed (I loved that actually), Kimchi, and a broth soup. I asked my host to help me ask the RD about the meal and the RD had serious trouble understanding when she was told I am an RD from the states. She was all the sudden too busy to talk. This is similar to the treatment I got when I first approached the Korean Dietetic Association.

I also witnessed another local foodservice provider offering poor quality meals and they blamed the small kitchen of school, which can honestly be troublesome in extreme situations. However, even the mothers are pissed and they have set up a monitoring program.

All in all it comes down to money, they seem to get away with it, and nobody wants conflict. I hope the watchful mothers make progress.

[macaronique]

Ham and Chesse Sandwich topped with some white sauce, raisins, apples,cucumbers, some other things I forget but.........some things you just dont mix.


Typical Korean food

Throw any item you can find in a pot, including old sneakers and last weeeks hot dog flavored water ,heat ,ENJOY.

[Dazed and Confused]

Koreans do mix odd things together. Last week I had pizza with my HS students as a reward for doing well on the daily vocab. quizzes. I don't like pineapple on pizza. Pineapples are great just not on pizza. One of the girls asked why I don't like pineapple and couldn't understand that I just don't like them on pizza. Then we had a conversation like this
me: Do you like cheese?
her: yes.
me: Do you like Kimchi?
her: yes.
me: Do you like cheese on kimchi?
her: NO! WHY WOULD YOU MIX TOGETHER?
me: For the same reason I don't mix pizza and pineapple or cheese and rice, or ketchup and eggs.
her: Ohhhhhhhhhh.
me:

[macaronique]

[definitely maybe]

[prideofidaho]

Yeah, I gotta say Pineapples are great when cooked, and I love 'em on pizza.

For two years in a row, I've had 'food day' at camp. Both years we've made salad. Salad drenched in mayo. Now, I like mayo, and I eat it as much as I eat, say, pineapples. Nevertheless, the sight of mayo bottles being emptied onto salad makes me want to puke all over those little faces. It's just wrong.

[Underwaterbob]

Cheese and kimchi on crackers is actually pretty good.

[Brooksmatic]

I've only taught two seasons of camps now (at three different schools), but I have actually had some pretty tasty food. At two of the schools just bought those Tours les Jours/Paris Baguette pizza sandwiches and croissants every day (usually with milk or those little drinkable yogurts).

At this last school I had odengguk, ddeokpoki, those little chicken bites on top of the cup of soda, and on the last day, Pizza Etang.

Great Success!!

[scorpiocandy]

A favourite snack at my hogwan is a ham ( or some other meaty substance) and strawberry jam!
On Thursday it was the meat, jam and egg!

The first time I saw it I was so hungry and went to get one. I thought the red stuff was ketchup. My hunger pains went away when i discovered it was jam and ham.

[Blockhead confidence]

[Sapa]

[jkelly80]

[fermentation]

One time I was given a sandwich with ham, cheese, jelly, and peanut butter...I bit into it unknowingly and almost spit it all over the table.

Kimchi and cheese together is quite good though. Ever had kimbab with kimchi and cheese? Pretty good. Pineapples on pizza is also good and if you think it's from Korea, you need to visit other countries once in a while.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Yesterday we had one of the crappiest lunches I've seen in a while. And I was pretty hungry, too. If it's that bad again I'm going to order a pizza today.