<< Thanks for coming, and... | Main | Dream Metal Tool >> August 12, 2006 >> Superficial Pickle As expected, I have become rather acclimatized to Korean society during my stay here. Getting pushed and shoved along in a crowd feels pretty normal now, and I don't even glance at the buckets full of stinking giant crabs strewn along the roadways anymore. But one thing that still gets me is pizza. Pizza in this country is sorta seen as gourmet, not the cheap, greasy university food it is back home. It's expensive here, although it's still greasy. But the toppings. As far as I can tell, the two most popular things to put on a pizza are corn and sweet potato. Always with the fucking sweet potato. Instead of dipping sauce, you get a little cup of sliced pickles. Somewhere in the course of importing to this noble country pickles and pizza have been inescapably linked, much like fries and burgers in the Western world. Our school refrigerator is full of these damnable little pickle cups. I often wonder whether anyone will get around to eating them, or whether we will all be drowned one day in a sea of shrunken cucumber and briny green juice. [Korea] [culture] [pizza] [pickles] Posted by Chris at 03:34 AM >> Commentations (1)
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