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[Dodge7]

I buy a 13,000k box of grapes and expect good quality for that amount of money. I bought it from a mom and pop's store around the corner. I get home, take the grapes out of the bag to wash and I look down and think I see a dead leaf. Upon further inspection it's a dead, stiff freaking frog...in my bunch of grapes.

Without hesitation I go back to the store and explain everything and ask to switch out the boxes all in Korean.

She takes out the dead frog holding it like it's a cute harmless little bundle of joy and saying it's only a frog, the grapes are good, eat them. I look at her like hell nah, YOU eat them, I want different grapes! Then the guy in front of me in line who stayed for the altercation takes her side and tries convincing me harder to take the grapes back.

After a 3 minute bickering battle--most of which I barely understood--she huffed and puffed to the back and got me another box, like it was all MY fault.

On the way back I'm thinking does she really want to lose a customer over this? A box of grapes?! What's the theory behind this demanding customers suck it up and take it? I get the culture, but it's bad business practice because I guarantee that would have been the last time I ever walked in that place if she wouldn't have exchanged it.

Then the thing that had me most pissed was the ajussi buying cigarettes in front of me taking the shop keeper's side trying to convince me to keep the dirty grapes. F em both.

Thanks for listening.

And for anyone saying I should not have tried to return them, as I said up top, YOU eat them when that happens to you. I get what I pay for.

[schwa]

Frogs are harmless. In this case a sign of a relatively natural product. I'd have accepted them as is.

[edwardcatflap]

Me too. Give them a good wash, as you'd do anyway, and what's the harm?

[Dodge7]

You guys are nasty.

[Died By Bear]

I moved to Korea with $3 US and lived on frogs for a month. Mmmm - I still remember them days. Frogs are delicious. Throw a little spam on top and they can be a crunchy delight.

[kbit]

I don't know why she gave you such a hard time. She'll just put your old box of grapes sans frog back on the shelf and sell it to the next guy. It's just as likely the new grapes she gave you had frogs that were removed.

[Dave Chance]

Dem's the breaks in Korea.

Face it, sometimes a foreigner isn't very high on the totem pole here.

If you were a 'respected and esteemed' member of the community in her eyes, she would have exchanged it pronto and included a little something as 'service'.

[Died By Bear]

[heavymetalpancakes]

Wash the grapes. Eat them. Quit being a whiny little hipster baby.

[Dodge7]

[tiger fancini]

[crescent]

Aw.... A dead frog and you cry sour grapes.

I hope you don't eat ketchup, tomato sauce, cereal, peanut butter, jam, or sausage, because you'll be eating quite a few more dirty little dead things than you could imagine.

[PatrickGHBusan]

Dodge there are a few holes on your deceased amphibian in your grapes story.

First you said you made your point "all in Korean" yet in numerous threads you claim you cannot speak Korean very well and cannot be bothered to learn. So you argued with her in Korean but "barely understood" the bickering battle in Korean that lasted 3 minutes?

So either your story is fabricated or you went to the story and with broken 2-word sentence Korean you tried to make your point and predictably failed.


As for the dead frog in your grapes, if it happened you could have washed the grapes in water and would have been fine. You could (and did) have gone back to the store and probably would have gotten an exchange had you been polite and had you spoken intelligible Korean (I remind you you often stated on here you cannot be bothered to learn the language beyond the survival level).

So the scene may have played out like this

Dodge: My podooo bad is with dead gaegoriii.
Ajuma: ???
Dodge: Pooooddooooo bad other podoooo jusae yo
Ajuma: ??? (in actual Korean) I will not give you another box of grapes and what is this foreigner going on about with the frog mention ???
Other K-customer: (In Korean) calm down, it is just a frog and why are you dangling a dead frog in the woman's face so aggressively?
Dodge (dangling the dead from) my podoooooo baaaadddd, you f0ing Koreans are not listening to meeeeeee.



Good luck out there Dodge and next time, send your wife to the store.

[Ibsen]

Not sure if everyone else is trolling, but I agree that is pretty gross... I would have taken them back too. Frogs don't really gross me out, but anything dead touching my food that ISN'T my food would bother me, even if I do wash it with water. I have to ask though, how did you not see the frog when you were buying the grapes? Whenever I buy fruit or veggies, especially from a smaller shop, I check them thoroughly to make sure they didn't put all the rotten ones on the bottom like they sometimes do.

[Died By Bear]

I lived in Korea for 17 years and that never happened to me.