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N. Korea: Kim Jong-il's search for salad dressing
Telegraph ^
| 05/25/11
| Malcolm Moore
Posted on 05/25/2011 7:58:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il's search for salad dressing
Once weighing nearly 200lb, the 5ft2-tall Kim Jong-il has had to count the calories since suffering a stroke in 2008.
By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai 11:35AM BST 25 May 2011
So perhaps it is no surprise that he stepped away from a tour of China's top factories and solar panel plants earlier this week to try and find some salad dressing at a local supermarket.
The 69-year-old leader of North Korea slipped out of his suite at the Yangzhou State Guest House at around four o'clock on Monday afternoon and strolled for five minutes to the Suguo supermarket.
Kim, who is a known gourmet, reportedly then accosted one sales clerk and asked "Where can I find oil for a salad?"
Good olive oil is, of course, hard to come by in North Korea, where the World Food Programme said in March there were more than six million people on the brink of starvation and requiring urgent food aid.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; kimjongil; nkorea; yangzhou
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To: TigerLikesRooster
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05/25/2011 8:01:24 AM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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05/25/2011 8:01:33 AM PDT
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
5’2” 200? What did he eat? Babies?
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05/25/2011 8:03:47 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Mr Kim sends trusted couriers to fetch him back Danish bacon, Iranian caviar and Thai mangosThere is a special place in hell reserved for Kim Jong-il. Meantime his "subjects" scrape dead grass out of the ground and boil it in water for dinner.
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05/25/2011 8:09:39 AM PDT
by
McLynnan
To: AppyPappy
The guy should do some METH. That will slim him down.
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05/25/2011 8:10:13 AM PDT
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: AppyPappy
Come to think of it, stroke and diabetes did slim him down.
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posted on
05/25/2011 8:11:41 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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05/25/2011 8:12:35 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: TigerLikesRooster
He should enroll in one of his slave labor camps.
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posted on
05/25/2011 8:13:07 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Obama can't see something pure like the truth without wanting to abort it.)
To: JoeProBono
Yep, he does need salad dressing to eat that sucker.
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05/25/2011 8:14:25 AM PDT
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Don’t count on it. The last thing he will try is “Boot Camp Diet.” But I am sure you know that already.
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05/25/2011 8:16:02 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Did he give on the spot guidance to the store clerk on the proper and most efficient way to stock shelves?
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05/25/2011 8:19:25 AM PDT
by
MadJack
("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
To: TigerLikesRooster
You can’t find oil for a salad in N. Korea, killer
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05/25/2011 8:20:40 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Apparently he had heard some quote about the importance of rendering unto caesar dressing that which is due and thought it might be a a way to get desperately-needed hard currency into NK.
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05/25/2011 8:28:53 AM PDT
by
rod1
To: TigerLikesRooster
He should join one of his slave labor camps for a few months. That’ll slim him down.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m sure the average North Korean would also like some salad oil. They’d be able to use it if they ever found some salad.
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posted on
05/25/2011 8:46:18 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Bibi 1, Zippy 0.)
To: JoeProBono
Whoa, you could feed a NK family for a week with that.
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05/25/2011 8:51:21 AM PDT
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AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Good olive oil is, of course, hard to come by in North Korea, where the World Food Programme said in March there were more than six million people on the brink of starvation and requiring urgent food aid.It's lines like this that make the UK media much more entertaining than the American media.
To: AppyPappy
5’2” 200? What did he eat? Babies?
Balloons and Sponges!
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05/25/2011 9:39:53 AM PDT
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jimmyo57
To: TigerLikesRooster
Tiger North Korea don’t have Paul Newman dressing LOL!
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05/25/2011 12:12:47 PM PDT
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SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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