If you were eating bowl after bowl of straight doenjang paste, they were not impressed with you, they were just putting on a kind face before they went into the back and gossiped about what a freak you are.
Doenjang is used as a base for soups and seasonings, but it’s almost never eaten straight.

Zen Kimchi got his hands on a box and has done the requisite taste test:

For anyone curios, Zen Kimchi has already gotten his hands on a box and run a taste-test:

I love this particular performance because it embodies so well what Korean pop music was before K-pop. Trot as a genre is goofy fun, perfect for singing in noraebang/karaoke, and the absolute best music for road trips (an honor shared with mariachi and death metal).
Na Huna is considered one of the greats of the genre,…

It’s not just that they got Tae Jin-a to sing the song, it’s that the song is a parody of Tae’s most famous hit: “Sorry, I’m Sorry (Mian, Mianhe)” It repurposed one of Korea’s more famous “trot” tunes about a break-up to apologize for having taken so long to bring the new flavor to market.

He’s singing, “There’s also chocolate flavor. The chocolate flavor is also delicious.”
The commercial song is a parody of the song “Mian, Mianhae” (Sorry, I’m Sorry), which is a sort of staple “trot” song in Korea. Trot itself is a fusion of traditional Korean music and western pop, analogous to Enka in Japan. The song…

It’s adorable watching those students cook for each other, since my experience of Korean breakfast is 90% leftovers from the night before. If I was really lucky, my mom would make us some fresh eggs, but the meal was usually just rice, leftover soup, and banchan from the never-empty lock-n-locks in the fridge . . . (I…

We’re not quite that low, but our “second wave” is still under 50 new cases today in the whole country, with most provinces reporting no new cases.  We seem to be cresting this wave, and hopefully we’ll be trending the right way again very soon.

Well, this makes me exceptionally happy to be living where I am, where swift, science-based government actions made this kind of think-piece unnecessary . . .
America needs to get its act together.

The spirit of the 90s is alive here, apparently . . .

Quite sadly, she passed away recently.  

I haven’t had a dishwasher in years, and I barely miss it.
Having lived without a washing machine for a very short time, it’s not something I would recommend.
Having once lived without access to a washing machine at all and having to do my laundry in a spring, it’s the number one reason I am completely uninterested in…

Glad you brought this up . . .
Now, when are we going to get an article about the blowup at Bon Appetit?

And yet, y’know who also has great stuff for beginner vegan/vegetarians? Bryant Terry, the guy who called them out waaaaaaaaay back in the day - his cookbooks are great.

You know who actually has written fantastic vegan/vegetarian cookbooks?
Bryant Terry

There’s actually a bit of cultural history of rocks that look like foods being celebrated art objects. Two of the most famous artifacts in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan are a stone that looks like braised pork and a piece of jadeite carved into a cabbage (complete with nibbling cricket)

It’s a well-kept secret, to be sure - a friend with some mobility issues clued me in.

This felt like such a sensible stand for Alton to take until I learned that a lot of what seem to be silly “as seen on TV” gadgets are often really meant as aids for people with various physical disabilities such as mobility problems, low grip strength, etc.

I actually have some sympathy there - food in Hawaii can be very, very expensive.  On the other hand, carting around a week’s worth of frozen food (as opposed to some cheap, lightweight noodles or something like that) seems like a criminal use of luggage space, especially when spam musubi exist to keep you alive and…

I saw that video, and spent a lot of time facepalming. Quarantine seems to be getting to our man Alton.