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Skriven 2013-11-29 16:28:52 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 7219 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: traveling 516
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 28 Nov 13  01:42:00 <=-

 ML>> Well, if not the same jar, the same factory. Kimchis here are
 ML>> not so standard as that, and I'm guessing that they shouldn't
 ML>> be in their native land either. I'd not imagine that every
 ML>> nappa in Korea was the same, nor every kind of hot pepper
 ML>> powder or garlic.
 NB>> I suppose it could be possible that restaurants that would be
 NB>> available to tourists of any stripe would all get their common kimchi
 ML> Not sure what it was, though I suspect a tightly controlled
 ML> market, probably run by the Lotte people, who seem to have
 ML> their fingers in every culinary pie. Even Dale and Gail's
 ML> pet Korean market up on Rte 40, H Mart, sells Lotte products,
 ML> despite its being an apparent competitor in the grocery biz.

Seems a reasonable explanation...  

 NB>> Sigh.  ;)  So did Lilli suggest to you that it wouldn't offend her
 NB>> sensibilities to watch you eat such esoteric stuffs...?   :)
 ML> She claims to enjoy watching people eat things that she would
 ML> not care to eat - but if it gets too close, maybe it's not so
 ML> much an enjoyment. I think she was thinking of relatively
 ML> harmless stuff like shellfish and garlic chives, but my own
 ML> interests run quite a bit farther afield than her comfort zone.

Have you pushed the envelope to see if you can indulge your interests
after all...?  Maybe her grimaces are more for effect...?  ;)
 
 ML>> I'm pretty sure the flavor was intentional - sort of
 ML>> would-be South Asian, as it was Malaysia Airlines.
 NB>> So perhaps just a non-orthodox mix of flavoring...
 ML> Or perhaps one of the few native spicing schemes that I
 ML> can't appreciate at all.

There's got to be at least some, I guess... :)

 ML>> Not that, just that as I suggest above all the packages seem
 ML>> about the same. I have no idea why this particular package
 ML>> was not meant to be sold on the street.
 NB>> Priced in bulk for their use only...?  Or maybe the packaging didn't
 NB>> meet standards for sale on the street... like the individual items
 NB>> here marked "not for individual sale" since some of the required
 NB>> verbiage isn't on them...

 ML> Priced in bulk makes sense. Packaging not meeting standards,
 ML> less likely, as many such foods in the groceries and stalls
 ML> didn't seem to have obvious ingredients lists, if they had
 ML> packaging at all (a lot of stuff sold loose).

I suppose..  That could be analogous to our bulk and/or farmers market
settings, though, where I think the packaging standards are reduced...
if not totally irrelevant...  But that does make the case stronger, as
you say, for it to be a bulk pricing dealie...  Wouldn't want the
airline personnel to be making some sort of extra profit by reselling
what was intended to be used on the airline only... :)

ttyl       neb

... Sure. You start with stealing "only" tag lines, then...
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