Well, there is really no good way to set up this picture or a funny anecdote to introduce it. You all can read, quite clearly, that this place serves pizza that is made out of pork cutlets. Now, it's not so much the spelling error that caught my attention, but rather the actual existence of something even more bizarre than 'regular' Korean pizza you can get at a Mr. Pizza's or Pizza Hut. So the idea of the pork cutlet, for those of you who are not familiar with 돈까스, is that it's a big slab of pork, battered and then deep fried; think chicken cutlets but with much thicker and crispier bread crumbs. So pork cutlet pizza is just a large, circle-shaped cutlet with some pasta sauce on top, maybe some cheese, and other random toppings depending on the one you order, baked again (remember, the pork cutlet was already deep-fried) in an oven, and then served to customers. A million witty comments have come to mind when thinking about this, but I don't think any witty comment will express fully the impact that pork cutlet pizza in and of itself has. I don't think a history, or a cultural discussion of anything, will explain this phenomenon, and so I leave it as is.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Day 17: New Food = New Set of Problems
Well, there is really no good way to set up this picture or a funny anecdote to introduce it. You all can read, quite clearly, that this place serves pizza that is made out of pork cutlets. Now, it's not so much the spelling error that caught my attention, but rather the actual existence of something even more bizarre than 'regular' Korean pizza you can get at a Mr. Pizza's or Pizza Hut. So the idea of the pork cutlet, for those of you who are not familiar with 돈까스, is that it's a big slab of pork, battered and then deep fried; think chicken cutlets but with much thicker and crispier bread crumbs. So pork cutlet pizza is just a large, circle-shaped cutlet with some pasta sauce on top, maybe some cheese, and other random toppings depending on the one you order, baked again (remember, the pork cutlet was already deep-fried) in an oven, and then served to customers. A million witty comments have come to mind when thinking about this, but I don't think any witty comment will express fully the impact that pork cutlet pizza in and of itself has. I don't think a history, or a cultural discussion of anything, will explain this phenomenon, and so I leave it as is.
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file this for future reference when people ask " hey why did all the Koreans get fat?"
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