This past weekend was the lone long weekend of the Korean school year calendar, it was for "Chusok" or Korea's equivalent to Thanksgiving. In the spirit of Chusok I got a gift from the school and I wanted to share it with you. That is my gift to you, "showing you my Chusok gift." Yea, it doesn't sound like much, but what were you expecting? An official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle? No way... You'd shoot your eye out. And being that you need your eyes to read this blog, I thought I'd spare you.
Now feast your eyes upon this, safe, extraordinary gift:
Yeah, if you're like me you might be thinking something like "They gave me a briefcase? Why would I want a huge briefcase like that?"
Then I picked it up and realized the case wasn't the present, there was something inside. But what was it?
Now I don't know what the heck it is. What can be in this huge box?
I finally open it and think, "Oh, they got me a coffee table. That's so weird but really nice." Now I'm not nervous anymore, but exited to see what's inside.
Upon closer inspection it was not a briefcase, or a coffee table, it was instead...Spam. Spam and tuna, and some cooking oil too. Every teacher in the school got Spam as a gift for Chusok. Not exactly what we give out on Thanksgiving, but it was still a nice gesture.
I hope you all enjoyed the gift, and can all give thanks to everything and everyone you have. I'll have more on the weekend coming up soon.
2 comments:
hahahahahah those koreans are funny.
Koreans found spam is good for kimbap and noodles and budae jjigae, circa 1950. Koreans don't use spam for sandwiches (ecccck!) or for any other respectable dishes, because they know it's junk food. But junk food has a habit of surviving no matter what.
There's an Okinawan dish using spam and fried eggs, served with white rice, since 1945.
Do these numbers sound significant to you? ;-)
p.s. Korean and Japanese spams are somewhat differnt from the North American version. Better pork, less sodium and fat.
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