Seeing as I now live in a Koreatown . . .

Post #404,943 by Andrew Grygus 9/27/15 1:35:30 AM Reply	Seeing as I now live in a Koreatown . . . The Tea Party whites that lived around here when I moved in are pretty much gone, and a lot of the Armenians who replaced them have moved on to richer digs, to be replaced now by Koreans. So I figured I should have more Korean stuff on Clovegarden. I've been making quite a few trips to a couple nearby Korean markets for exotic ingredients, and they have plenty of exotic ingredients. Yesterday, I was going through one of the refrigerated sections and spotted a package of Korean sausages. Well, I knew my sausage page should have these, so I took a package. The Korean checkout lady looked at the package, and said with unconcealed amazement, "You eat these?" I just laughed. I don't know whether she would hesitate to eat them, or just thought it amazing that a regular white person would be eating something that proudly declared "Beef Blood, Pork Snouts" among the top four ingredients. I tried a small sample of one today. A little strange, but not at all bad. The main ingredients are: Vermicelli (Sweet Potato Starch Noodles), Rice, Beef Blood, Pork Snouts, Lard. Of course, they aren't allowed to call these "Korean Sausages", because they're made in Los Angeles, not in Korea. So they use the same subterfuge the Armenians, Hungarians, Poles and Russians use around here. They call them "Korean Brand Sausages".
Post #404,944 by static 9/27/15 3:16:16 AM Reply	You should've told her "I eat anything", Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #404,945 by a6l6e6x 9/27/15 9:26:45 AM Reply	At least things are labeled nowadays. I remember my Mom buying things at a butcher in NYC that were barely or totally unlabeled. No description of what it was or what was in it. You just had to know yourself not to mention know the butcher too. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #404,948 by Andrew Grygus 9/27/15 11:06:19 AM Reply	Over at the famous "Farmer's Market" near Fairfax . . . . . many years ago. It wasn't anything like what we call a "farmers market" today. It was in a heavily Jewish district, and very, very New York. Say you wanted oranges. There was a booth with a display of really nice oranges. No way were you allowed to touch those oranges. You told the merchant how many you wanted, and he'd pick them out of a box behind the display, and hand them to you in a closed bag. I think if anyone tried that today, he'd get his display turned over, with him on the underside.
Post #404,956 by boxley 9/27/15 2:17:33 PM Reply	leave out the noodles you would have boudin you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer
Post #404,958 by Andrew Grygus 9/27/15 3:35:38 PM Reply	Without the noodles . . . . . it would also be close to the Spanish Morcilla de Arroz, a blood sausage with rice. The sweet potato starch noodles give this sausage a gelatinous texture.
Post #405,028 by scoenye 9/30/15 8:59:28 PM Reply	Boudin is pig's blood, though.
Post #405,029 by Andrew Grygus 9/30/15 11:02:27 PM Reply	That is certainly true . . . . . and these Korean sausages are made more often with pig blood than with beef blood, that's up to the maker. There are many varieties of this sausage, so there are few rules, except generally blood, sweet rice and sweet potato starch noodles. Sweet potato starch noodles are used because they are far more durable in cooking than bean starch noodles.
Post #405,031 by boxley 10/1/15 12:11:48 AM Reply	when they are not made with shrimp, crawdads or alligator. you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer

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