Posted on 11/04/2017 5:20:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kim Jong Un doesn't want you to know it, but North Koreans are hungry—and desperate.
An estimated 4.4 million people in the reclusive nation are in a state of "crisis, emergency and famine," meaning they have what the United Nations calls "food consumption gaps with high or above usual acute malnutrition." North Korea has a public distribution system for food, but it's insufficient, leaving much of the impoverished population to rely on street-food stalls to supplement their diets, according to a Reuters report out Friday.
At these markets, people can access injogogi, a spicy soy bean-rice combination that translates to "man-made meat," and seokdujeon, little cornmeal cakes. Sometimes they can get dububab, a treat made from rice and chili sauce packed inside tofu. Wealthy people can order pepperoni pizza.
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According to DailyNK, the markets are "an integral and irreversible means of survival" in North Korea, especially given growing fears that the republic could soon be facing a famine like the one that killed more than 2 million people in the '90s. But the Reuters report is just a peek into what life is like in North Korea.
If you're still curious, here's a quick look at what else we know North Koreans eat:
Corn
Defector Charles Ryu told New York Magazine that he went to a political labor camp where he was served 50 corn kernels three times a day, which left him "almost dead from malnutrition." Another defector interviewed for the 2008 book Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country said that "if you can eat corn gruel for 365 days a year, your family is well-off."
Dog meat.....
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Seems like in other Asian cuisine, they use a lot of chili peppers. Wonder what they ate before that evil bastard Columbus discovered the New World, where Capsicum was indigenous.
The situation in NK is going to get muck worse....
Kim is used to threatening the west to extract money so he will behave....
That little game is over...
Expect mass starvation....
I eat Korean as often as I can. Not only the entrees but the little side dishes.
——That’s why I think the living standards for average folks on the South and in China should be publicized by dropping propaganda into the North——
Except no one will pick them up to read them...
Pick one up and you can expect all your family to the third generation sent to a labor camp....
Spying on each other is the # 1 rule to survive and curry favor within the NK regime...
Sawdust loaf and tree twigs, mmmmmmm
Old chickens are only good for stewing and that bird is already stewed.
When I was a kid my Grandpa use to bring us the best tacos ever!!!
One day he stopped bringing them. Finally we kids got up enough nerve to ask him why. He said the Board of Heath closed them down, they were using cat meat!
From then on cats were called “walking tacos” by me and my brothers. Tasty eats.
Have a friend who spent time in Peru. Guiney pig is also apparently yummy.
Sometimes you do what you gotta do. Sad but true.
Okay, so the Norks are starving but they rely on street stall food vendors for something to eat. WTF?
Capsicum came from the New World? Sorta, maybe, kinda remember that.
It seems to be a staple in Africa.
Heads up- African food.... Green stuff is good. Red stuff, run away unless you are into pain!!!
So where do the vendors obtain their supplies?
Dog, dog, dog, egg, sausage and dog....
Yeah, right?
You wonder why those people - the average jinko and janeko don't just shoot themselves - oh, right . . third world shitholes like this have outlawed guns except for the cops and soldiers
Man made meat?
I would think this means “soy burgers” but since this is the Norks...
Soylent Green!
Saw the first picture...thought you got a very sick cow!
Then the second pix....
Star Trek!
(you may still have a sick cow)
If it makes you feel better, the ones they eat are big red vicious pigs, not the pet kind. Theyre as mean as such a little creature can get and deserve it.
Either “That Which Survives” (don’t think it’s “Devil in the Dark”) or “Egg Foo Young in Space”.
Singing, “Don’t go out in the tunnels tonight, or you’ll experience a terrible fright”.
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