Huh??? I never have heard of/seen/smelled/tasted/ or otherwise been exposed to these… but I’ll keep my eye out! If I find one, I’ll buy it…
And Coldfire, after about 5 years of studying, I exceed your Korean vocabulary by about 4 words… Kia, Ssangyoung, Hyundai (pronounced "Hyun-day in Korean, not “Hyun-die”!), and bo-jee (my, ah-hem, favorite female body part!).
Korean is fricking HARD for an English speaker!!!
pyrrho12, brother I FEEL your pain!!!
Koreans have a word: Chi-sa-han saram, which means something like “really cheesy, cheap-ass, stick it to ya whenever-they-can people.”
I often feel this way when they tell me a new word and then refuse to define it! WFT!!! I tell my students all sorts of nasty words, but I do have a limit! And if I taught them a BAD word, I would at least tell them the meaning before telling them not to use it!!
Astro is tired, and going to bed…
Damn, I knew Kia and Ssang Young as well! And I even knew how to pronounce Hyundai!
Tater, am I half Korean too now?
Coldfire you are half Korean in your heart when you can bite into a nuclear mutant hell-fire pepper, and smile and say “not so bad”… THAT’S when you are half Korean!!
I’ve been trying to scan a pic of Little Bob Dog, but I need to reload the software, and I am technically supposed to be in bed right now, so I guess it will have to wait. 
Anyhoo, you would like LBD, “Bob’s honesty and unpreteniousness are what make him so popular.” Plus, he is made by the Loving Friend Company of Korea.
Coldy You are not even close to being half-Korean! First of all, you are not ee-po-dah enough. Second of all, you have a distinctly non-garlic aroma about you (more like herring and onions). Third of all, you have a Hamada Kundingee. And you look like a Kaygoree’s Donkimoe. 
A Donkimoe???
I’ve never been so insulted in my entire life. You po-kabeezoe.
Astro-dude,
Your apparent horror over the popularity of Baywatch can be compounded by the fact that from 1994-1998 (approximately), Baywatch was the most watched syndicated show in the WORLD. Now that’s a real eewwwwwwwww…
Kamsahamneedah, Adashi! Du kennst, Ich liebe dich, ja? 
Du weißt ich liebe dich, meinst du 
The feeling is mutual, m’dear.
This multi-lingual banter is making my head spin… All I remember from 2 semesters of German is Ich bin krank and Ich bin mude… pretty pathetic, huh??
Dangit, I always get Weiss, Kennen und Glauben mixed up. Damn these Germans with their foreign language.
No, wait, kennst could be correct…would fit in with your delusions of grandeur.
Und Ich bin krank und mude! Ach! Mein Kopf ist kaput! Ich habe ein Bauchweh!
I heard David Hasselhof on Howard Stern a while ago and Howard asked why he was so popular in Germany. David said that it was mostly luck.
Apparently he was known in Germany for singing, but it just so happened that he had a song out that was latched onto when the Berlin Wall came down (I’m imagining something like Lee Greenwood during the Gulf War).
Astroboy, try going to one of those big stationary stores to see Little Bob Dog. I believe that the CNA Total Gift Department Store chain carries LBD merchandise… Tempo definitely has LBD stuff, but those stores are much less common than CNA. Tatertot, are you sure we couldn’t interest you in some Cong-Cong-i instead? She’s much more popular than LBD this year… 
Going to bed. That’s a good idea, Astroboy. It’s past one. I may get a call to come peel garlic in the morning… has your SO’s family ever drafted you into the hateful experience of kimchi making? Good night.
The whole world loves boobies!!!
In Egypt, about 12 years ago, the only American program I could regularly find on TV was MacGuyver.
OK. One time my dad travelled to Montserrat to cover a volcano erupting there. On his way back he stopped in Antigua and went shopping in a market there. He was interested in a bottle of hot sauce, but the alarmed proprietress looked at him in astonishment and told him, “That’ll blow the asshole off a white man!”
He bought it anyway and took it home.
I tried some of it on a burrito and found it somewhat bland.
I’m one-eighth Korean on my mother’s side.
matt_mcl,
Oddly enough, most Koreans seem to think that westerners don’t like spicy food (completely ignoring the fact that hot peppers were introduced here in the 17th century… by the Spanish! IIRC…)! I can handle much hotter peppers than most of my Korean friends… though I will ocassionally run across one that is more than I bargained for! :eek:!
The Simpsons is hardly an import in Korea, all the actual animation is drawn in Korea.
Good point, Collin… I didn’t think of that!
Ok, update on the naughty word hunt: “yomchee” according to my partner, is similar to “weasel”… still haven’t gotten to the bottom of “shumyunseki” yet… (Fiancee not due back until tonight)…
I’ll keep you, uh, POSTED!
I think it is safe to say that the Korean-hot food connection is not genetic.
I would with a Korean guy who breaks into a sweat from Taco Bell hot sauce (the middle one even, not the hottest one). He was born and raised in Ohio.
Environment over genetics on this one, I think.
I fully agree. My GF is 100% white, born and raised Dutch. But after having worked 4 months in Singapore, she can now down those hot peppers as if they were M&M’s.
Meanwhile, I’m reaching for all available liquids to extinguish the flames. It’s definately trainable.