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dsun1226
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I made the mistake of buying the Doritos/Cheetos pack with free Pepsi at the local Buy the Way last week. While most Korean chips are pretty bad, one of the few bright spots I have found were the ones by Nong Shim in the green bag (칩포테이토 I think). |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Overall, I think the problem with the Korean snack food industry is that the manufacturers seem to think bland is a flavor; and 'Doritos' are certainly no exception. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Maserial wrote: |
| Overall, I think the problem with the Korean snack food industry is that the manufacturers seem to think bland is a flavor; and 'Doritos' are certainly no exception. |
I could never really tell the difference between snacks here and snacks back home. |
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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| I could never really tell the difference between snacks here and snacks back home. |
Seriously? Where's 'home'? Unless by snacks you mean carrots and apple slices. When it comes to foods salty and sweet which one shouldn't eat in excess, I've yet to discover a kind the Koreans haven't mangled. Even Snickers bars taste a little 'off' compared to how they SHOULD taste, and that's one of the minor offenders. |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Deep fried this? Check. Cream sauce this and that? Check. Process that? Check. Icing on cakes that ensures a dentist's visit? |
Good lists previously. I guess that Korea got all of that from the US, as that fits the bill for Korea. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Modernist wrote: |
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| I could never really tell the difference between snacks here and snacks back home. |
Seriously? Where's 'home'? Unless by snacks you mean carrots and apple slices. When it comes to foods salty and sweet which one shouldn't eat in excess, I've yet to discover a kind the Koreans haven't mangled. Even Snickers bars taste a little 'off' compared to how they SHOULD taste, and that's one of the minor offenders. |
Doritos is the only one I can tell apart because I once at an American bag and a Korean bag side by side (because my co-workers didn't believe I couldn't tell the difference).
Chocolate bars and other candies don't really strike me as being that different. If they do taste different, its only mildly and I'd need another side by side test to distinguish them.
I like Korean chocolates and sweets as much as Canadian ones, which isn't all that much actually, haha. I'm from the East Coast of Canada by the way.
I think I don't have many taste buds... |
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes a Snickers or Twix will have an odd, off kinda taste. |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a big fan of 'tomatoes in a fruit platter'. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I assumer these habits are from when Korea was a poor country and things were in short supply. Kind of like a Korean hamburger. They say Australian beef, but they put discusting filler crap in it to keep the price down. (check). Discusting. But Korea's not poor anymore and they can afford to make good hamburgers. That's why McDonalds, Johhny Rockets, Thunder Burger are so popular in Seoul. Just wish there was more choice in the rest of the country. |
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Patrick Bateman
Joined: 21 Apr 2009
Location: Lost in Translation
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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I have to say, I bought a bag of original Skittles yesterday and they tasted considerably better than the American version.
I think that's the only positive experience I've had like that. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| maximmm wrote: |
| I'm a big fan of 'tomatoes in a fruit platter'. |
And ice cream. And cakes. Yet when you try to explain to people here that the tomato is technically a fruit... |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
| Sometimes a Snickers or Twix will have an odd, off kinda taste. |
Might be expired. Bought a can of coke & spat out the first sip in Choryung Dong. 8 months past it's best before date. Still better than McColl though. |
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The Sultan of Seoul
Joined: 17 Apr 2012
Location: right... behind.. YOU
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| maximmm wrote: |
| I'm a big fan of 'tomatoes in a fruit platter'. |
And ice cream. And cakes. Yet when you try to explain to people here that the tomato is technically a fruit... |
This dierectly links in with the thread below in that, where else other than on the Korean job forums would one make such a big deal - or at a post least implies a shared understanding that a percentile of us would view it as a big deal - over the way ESL teachers in Korea react to the manner in which Koreans react to being told a tomato is technically a fruit...
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=219828 |
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soulofseoul
Joined: 23 Mar 2010
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Its not only Doritos...its Pepsi here that needs to be vastly improved
Being such a huge company it should taste the same or very very close to back home which of course here it doesnt |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| soulofseoul wrote: |
Its not only Doritos...its Pepsi here that needs to be vastly improved
Being such a huge company it should taste the same or very very close to back home which of course here it doesnt |
Like Doritos, Pepsi has been licensed to Lotte. |
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