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Posted on 04/27/2017 4:16:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
NORTH Korea’s state-run airline serves its passengers only one item of food.
The Koryo Burger is always served stone cold — straight from the fridge — on a paper doily with an unidenfitied slice of processed meat in the middle. The bun is stale, there’s a slice of processed cheese, a few wispy slices of shredded cabbage or a single lettuce leaf (but usually not both).
Some say the mystery sauce is red, some say it’s brown, but most generally agree it’s too watery to be blood left over from the animal that became the patty.
It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect from an airline named as one of the worst in the world, according to review website Skytrax.
And yet, its repulsiveness has gained an almost cult-level following around the world.
Journalist Jamie Fullerton wrote for Vice that, like many others on the flight, he didn’t finish his burger, “but this was largely due to the chewy blandness rather than revulsion.
“The meat was inoffensively dull and, true to the intrigue that surrounds it, even tougher to identify than it was to chew”.
He said the weirdness only added to the sense of confusion he felt watching the bizarre propaganda videos that played the whole two hours from Beijing to Pyongyang.
However, that’s not to say all North Korean burgers are bad.
The nation’s staples are kimchi (a kind of fermented cabbage) and noodles, but tour operator Simon Cockerell said plenty of places serve decent patties. His theory is that the bland meat is actually chicken.
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These people trusted it enough to eat ?
They are aware that there is a HIGH chance that it’s human.
Soyrent brown?
I’m guessing Soylent Green.
5.56mm
Looks like Korap.
That looks like one of Michelle Antoinette’s skool lunches.
back in the day, 1981 to be precise, i was on a state-sponsored visit across the PRC. We traveled to and fro by trains, planes and automobiles. The planes seemed like Chinese copies of Russian copies of Boeing 727s and each time I flew, I just assumed a completely fatalistic attitude: I got on by my own free will, and God willing, I’d get off (alive hopefully), but in the mean time, there’s wasn’t a whole helluva lot I could do about it.
But the in-flight service was fascinating as it was a near parody of U.S. flight service. The flight attendant rolled a little cart up and down the aisle serving this nasty, ubiquitous Chinese orange soda pop in little tiny paper cups like the ones dentists use. But they also gave out little useless trinkets like the “prizes” you’d find in a crackerjack box. The trinkets didn’t even have an airline logo on them (maybe there was only one airline and it was owned by the PRC government so it didn’t matter). At any rate, I’ll never forget the trinkets. Wish I’d kept some instead of just tossing them in the trash.
For Heaven’s sake, don’t disclose this menu item to United Airlines!
Not to worry. They have giant bunny burgers in the works.
Too late.
Everyone knows that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger in the first place.
http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/OldNewsPage/?Id=5195
Did they reverse-engineer a White Castle or a Wimpy-Burger?
Yes. Wouldn’t touch it.
could feed 10 Norks...
Coming to s “Deregulated Airline” near you.
Last airline in the world that you can still book a flight on a Soviet Il-62. Unless you're chicken...
I’ll have one with some fava beans and a nice chianti
Ding!
i thought this airline only did really short flights to china, but I’m amazed to see they fly to berlin, malaysia, russia, czech, serbia, even kuwait?
I’m guessing they no longer fly to a lot of these places, they just flew them at some point.
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