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[Wombat]

A few days ago, as strolled along the aisles of Carrefour, I came across the baked goods section. Having given up all hope of ever finding decent wholemeal bread years ago, I wasn't really expecting to find anything worth buying. But wait - what's this? Hmm! Garlic bread! Well, surely, there can't be anything amiss with that.

Upon arriving at home, and taking a bite, I was rudely made aware that the bread in question was coated in sugar! That's right - sugar garlic bread. (I can imagine some of you reading this, chuckling "What a feeb! She actually thought that it'd be good! Didn't she know about the sugar?!")

So - what other unique versions of non-Korean food have others come across here?

Wombat

[steroidmaximus]

My first year I tried alot of this stuff. These days, I avoid junkfood like the plague.

-potato / corn chips that have pictures on the package of the contents soaked in milk. waaaaayyy too much sugar.
-ketchup on salad, which really is just cabbage
-can't forget to mention CORN on everything
-hamburger steak in a sweet sauce (?!)
-coffee flavoured tea
-bou dae Chiggea. . .had it once with students. . .sure, I LOVE spam and processed meat. . .and yes, I know the history of this particular hybrid/fusion

[Wombat]

I've been present at the table when that Spam-stew was served! I know of its horrors!

What about that packet snack they sell at the corner shops - the one with squid, what appears to be chocolate, and peanuts?! I know that isn't a Korean take on Western food, but the combination is so bizzare that it bears mentioning...

Wombat

[Wombat]

Here's another: lemon-lime soda mixed with MILK. They sell it in bottles at the shops. Ecch!

[HardyandTiny]

live wiggling squid

[Butterfly]

little individual chocolate and CHEESE sponge cakes. Truly revolting.

[Zyzyfer]

Yea, that sugary garlic bread pisses me off, because it's hard to quickly tell the difference between it and normal garlic bread.

[Wombat]

Exactly! Rejoice, I am not alone! It's not as though garlic bread here is universally sugary - Paris Baguette make quite decent stuff - so how are we hapless foreigners to tell the difference?

Wombat

[Gord]

[inexhile]

I ordered a combination pizza yesterday and it arrived covered in bananas, truly disgusting.

[Wombat]

Beat this: Haiwaian pizza - should have ham and pineapple on it, right? Not here - candied cherries and jellyfish!

[Wombat]

[Wombat]

...and the more I think about it, the Yanks can have it! It doesn't appeal to me!

[dogbert]

[Gord]