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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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I swear, everyday here is just weird.
So I'm eating pickles at work, and my co-worker, boss and students all ask me as soon as they see me, "Why you eat-uh the pickles?"
Um, because it came with my pizza?
What is one meant to do with the free pickles? Drop them in someone's coffee as a joke? Why are they so horrified to see a great man (me) enjoying his pickles? What's going on here? |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:24 am Post subject: Re: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
I swear, everyday here is just weird.
So I'm eating pickles at work, and my co-worker, boss and students all ask me as soon as they see me, "Why you eat-uh the pickles?"
Um, because it came with my pizza?
What is one meant to do with the free pickles? Drop them in someone's coffee as a joke? Why are they so horrified to see a great man (me) enjoying his pickles? What's going on here? |
I think that they think that we only eat hamburgers all day everyday.. so anything beyond that and you can really throw them for a loop.
Imagine if you ate those pickles with chopsticks. They'd be talking about it for years to come. |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: Re: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| buddy bradley wrote: |
I swear, everyday here is just weird.
So I'm eating pickles at work, and my co-worker, boss and students all ask me as soon as they see me, "Why you eat-uh the pickles?"
Um, because it came with my pizza?
What is one meant to do with the free pickles? Drop them in someone's coffee as a joke? Why are they so horrified to see a great man (me) enjoying his pickles? What's going on here? |
I think that they think that we only eat hamburgers all day everyday.. so anything beyond that and you can really throw them for a loop.
Imagine if you ate those pickles with chopsticks. They'd be talking about it for years to come. |
That's what blows my mind across the room - hamburgers have pickles on them! Would they not just assume that I was done with the bun, cheese and patty and was just working on finishing off the pickles? |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: Re: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
| "Why you eat-uh the pickles?" |
Ugh! Sweet pickles, blech! Anywhere else besides Costco where I can pick up some half-decent dills or garlic dills?
--boz |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Bozo... I don't know about the pickle thing. The GF has been naggin' me to find some, but other than that, who are the two freaks on your avatar? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| I've seen them in Hanam Supermakret, but that's a ways away.. Perhaps there are good blackmarket shops somewhere in Daegu? |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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| Bozo Yoroshiku wrote: |
Ugh! Sweet pickles, blech! |
Sweet Jesus, a pickle connoisseur... |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: Re: Pickle Ettiquette In Korea |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
| Sweet Jesus, a pickle connoisseur... |
I was in Costco the first time, and when I came to the condiments section, I guess I freaked a couple Korean shoppers with my "Ohmygoddillpickles!" scream. I don't think I'd seen any in, oh, 6 years at that point. I had the craving, and I would kill anyone who got in my way.
--boz |
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Grotto
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| home plus carries Dill pickles |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| What am I? Invisible? |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
Joined: 23 Feb 2005
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| Those pickles saved my life when I was pregnant. |
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Deconstructor
Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Pickles on a pizza is strange, but corn is definitely stranger! If you ever want to eat something that looks exactly like a hamburger, but tastes radically different than anything a hamburger might ever taste like, put corn on your burger.
Once I was caught eating home made sandwich standing up. Everyone at the hogwan was on me like pit-bull on a puddle. How dare I not sit myself down before taking that first bite! Didn't I know that I was profoundly insulting an entire nation?! It was as if I was caught taking a dump standing up.
"Look, people", I said, "it's just a sandwich and the meet in it didn't come from one of my students, so please give me a break!"
I was, after all, a foreigner and couldn�t be aware and follow every draconian rule hidden in the cellar. Why is it that when foreigners come to Canada/US we are told to respect their traditions, but when we go to foreign countries, it is again us who have to respect every stupid, moronic, schizophrenic rule in the old dusty book?
I WANNA KNOW WHY?!?!?! |
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