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[FistFace]

When I feel like a snack from the store downstairs in our school building, I often find myself digging though the pile of available "goodies" only to find myself disgusted with the odd way they've been altered/bastardized/Koreanized for Korean tastes.

We have a caterer who provides "Shany" brand pastries, cupcakes, etc.. They are usually pretty horrible, and I find myself inspecting each candidate to discover just how this company has ruined a potentially good snack. I find myself asking: Is there any of that brown bean crap to be found? Does that chocolate cake have a greasy taste with a complete lack of sweetness? Does that piece of white bread have an excessive amount of overly-sweet strawberry creme hidden inside?

What Korean snack has disappointed you?

[Underwaterbob]

I too am mystified by their obsession with making everything that is bread or pastry as sweet or bean filled as humanly possible. Sweet garlic bread is vile.

[grunden]

reminds me of that scene in Apocolypse Now when the chef was telling about all that meat being boiled.

[jkelly80]

Sweet garlic bread is an abomination.

[nottina]

I was at Emart and walked through the bakery department. There was the delicious smell of garlic bread. One of the bakers was making garlic croissants. I bought a bag, excited to find garlic bread. Bit into it and home and was horrified by the sugary sweet taste. Ugh.

There is a bakery on the corner of my street. They have cookies, donuts, etc. Everything looks great, but tastes horrible. I think the problem is they use coconut oil instead of butter.

Even the donuts at Dunkin Donuts are disappointing.

[grunden]

[Robot_Teacher]

I too bought buttery looking garlic french loaf thinking it would compliment my spaghetti, but was I so wrong about that one. It was SWEET! LMAO! Things are not what they appear to your eyes to be.

[esetters21]

What is with the sugar obsession? I have been tricked before on the garlic bread thing as well. I cut out carbs, so snacks in general are out these days.

[yingwenlaoshi]

I think that there's a lot of sugar grown in Asia and this accounts for its widespread use. At least in Taiwan it seems to be the case.

Speaking of Taiwan, I remember going to 7-11 with my friend when I first got there. He had been there for about a year. He was showing me the chip rack and pointing out each one: "Don't bother. Don't bother. Don't bother..."

[CentralCali]

Don't forget to check for coffee or tea--or both--added to just about every kind of product fom noodles to sandwich bread.

[JongnoGuru]

"It's like Koreans learned to cook Western food by looking at pictures of it". -- mindmetoo




Also, "Here, try some green-tea EVERYTHING!"