Indeed...
Posted on 07/07/2004 4:37:33 AM PDT by yonif
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has introduced hamburgers to his reclusive, communist country in a campaign to provide "quality" food to university students, media reported Wednesday.
The hamburgers were introduced in 2000 and dubbed "gogigyeopbbang," Korean for "double bread with meat," according to the June 29 edition of the North Korean state-run newspaper Minju Joson. The report was carried by South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Wednesday.
Although reports from the isolated country have in recent years mentioned the introduction of the American fast food classic, the latest announcement seems to credit the country's leader for their advent.
The news marks a curious development for North Korea, where U.S. consumerism is routinely reviled in the official media and people refer to the soft drink Coca Cola as the "cesspool water of American capitalism."
Wednesday's report cites leader Kim Jong Il as saying at the time of the hamburger's introduction: "I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries to university students, professors and researchers even if we are in (economic) hardship."
The government then built a hamburger plant and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to pay close attention to modernizing mass production, the report was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
Hamburgers from the factory were first provided only to students at the elite Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, but were later provided to other schools, the daily said.
Hamburgers are now familiar to many North Koreans, it added.
Yet another society destined to become gogigyeopbbangflippers.
One "all-dog" patty?
I think the rest of it - gyeopbbang - means "Elsie the Cow."
Its a hamburger and a hot dog at the same time.
"The government then built a hamburger plant and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to pay close attention to modernizing mass production, the report was quoted as saying by Yonhap."
Doesn't sound like a have it your own way kind of place, does it?
All "political prisoner" patty.
Indeed...
The world is full of raw fish eaters too.
Just dont try and order one without the pickle, or you will have to pull over to the side and be executed.
ewwwwwwww
LoL.
gogigyeopbbang! gogigyeopbbang! gogigyeopbbang! Pepsi! Pepsi! Pepsi! Cheep! cheep!
Count me among them. Sushi ia a true culinary delight, and a regular staple in our household. I had it last night, in fact. Even my five-year old likes it.
But spare me the kim chee, which I think is Korean for "yuck."
Isn't that like, "saurkraut", asian style?
Not much difference, is there?
I like my sushi battered and deep fried with hushpuppies and fries.
Kimchee and FishHead soup......Yum-Yum....
(....long pig..)
Paging jeffy dahmer
I was thinking the same thing, what kind of meat? Rat, cat, dog, dissident? Who knows.
I saw a dead dog on the side of the highway that was so inflated it was about to explode. Somewhere in the world there is someone who would fight the buzzards and crows for it.
A hell of a lot of people in North Korea would for a start..!..They would fight for the bones..!
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