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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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Depends on the peel. Some grapes are intended for juice I think but they eat them. Those are way too bitter. So some grape skins are just right with little taste and others are bitter so I don't eat them.
Is it a cultural thing in Korea as far as not eating the skin? I haven't noticed. In Japan it is. I never seen them eat the peel of a grape. |
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| When I eat grapes, I eat grapes -- skins, seeds and all. Can't be bothered with dismembering them before I eat, and can't get into the habit of sticking something into my mouth, only to turn around and spit half of it back out. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Dawn wrote: |
| When I eat grapes, I eat grapes -- skins, seeds and all. Can't be bothered with dismembering them before I eat, and can't get into the habit of sticking something into my mouth, only to turn around and spit half of it back out. |
That's also one of the reasons I rarely eat grapes here. Spitting out the seeds seems like so much work. But, I eat watermelon seeds. I've read somewhere that it's the most nutritious part of the melon, plus it's flavourless. Maybe I should start doing like you with grapes. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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I think they are called "다봉"? They are much closer to the green grapes of home.  They are fat and juicy with a very thin skin...
The usual purple grapes? Sometime I will eat the skin, seeds and all...depends on the situation. If there is a spitoon nearby, then out it goes. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| kimchi_pizza wrote: |
Is it a cultural thing in Korea as far as not eating the skin? I haven't noticed. In Japan it is. I never seen them eat the peel of a grape. |
We went to a vineyard on our field trip today, and everyone was sucking the meat out of the grapes and leaving the skins behind. One little boy was going through them like crazy. |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Now Mostly @ Home
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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I remember the night I ended up at a host bar with a notorious Itaewon proprietress (and landlady)...
She was having "her guy" peel grapes for her, put them on a toothpick, and then feed them to her...
Hey, the boys have to earn their tips SOMEHOW.  |
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peony
Joined: 30 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| i love korean grapes but i dont eat the skin of any grapes at all |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Korean grapes skin is tough, difficult to chew, so no, for those grapes, I don't eat the skin.
Other grapes, however, I do. |
Agreed. And not just tough, but bitter. Anyway, I've never had grapes where the meat was so easy to extract (and without putting the pesticide-y skin straight into your mouth) as it is with Korean grapes.
1. Wash a bunch of grapes. (I wash them in warm dish soap, spray-rinse them, and put them in the fridge until they're chilled. I don't eat room-temp grapes.)
2. Set out two bowls, one for the chilled grapes and the other for discarded skins and seeds.
3. Pluck off a grape and grip it between teeth, forefinger & thumb, with the stem-hole pointing inside your mouth.
4. (Now here's the tricky part) Bite down on the grape while squeezing with finger & thumb.
5. As the grape rips throught the membrane and pops into your mouth, discard its skin into the empty bowl.
6. As you chew the grape, you isolate the seeds. You can either lean over the bowl and spit, or spit them into the skin and discard them together.
At the end, you have the skeletal stem system in one bowl and the disjecta membra in the other. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Korean grapes skin is tough, difficult to chew, so no, for those grapes, I don't eat the skin.
Other grapes, however, I do. |
Agreed. And not just tough, but bitter. Anyway, I've never had grapes where the meat was so easy to extract (and without putting the pesticide-y skin straight into your mouth) as it is with Korean grapes.
1. Wash a bunch of grapes. (I wash them in warm dish soap, spray-rinse them, and put them in the fridge until they're chilled. I don't eat room-temp grapes.)
2. Set out two bowls, one for the chilled grapes and the other for discarded skins and seeds.
3. Pluck off a grape and grip it between teeth, forefinger & thumb, with the stem-hole pointing inside your mouth.
4. (Now here's the tricky part) Bite down on the grape while squeezing with finger & thumb.
5. As the grape rips throught the membrane and pops into your mouth, discard its skin into the empty bowl.
6. As you chew the grape, you isolate the seeds. You can either lean over the bowl and spit, or spit them into the skin and discard them together.
At the end, you have the skeletal stem system in one bowl and the disjecta membra in the other. |
Precisely how we eat ours. |
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