Re: [CH] kim chi
Uncle_Dirty_Dave (xrated@ameritech.net)
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:46:12 -0600
danceswithcarp wrote:
> At 02:58 AM 1/19/02 -0800, Terry Van Kirk wrote:
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>> Um, does anybody know, what does it mean, you're in deep kim chi?
>
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> I first heard it in the army in the 70s. A lot of guys had been
> stationed on the 38th paralell and I assume instead of saying "deep
> sh*t" they said "deep kimchi," possibly due to the smell of a bucket
> fermenting. When it is enclosed and still wirking it is *powerful*.
>
> I have a Korean-American girl in one of my classes and her Ma' sent me a
> Big Jar of fresh kimchi last week. She doesn't have the recipe because
> she does it by either instinct or sight. I opened it in the classroom
> and for the rest of the day kids came in, sniffed, wrinkled up their
> noses and looked around and started asking who crapped.
>
> I had it every day for lunch in the teachers' lunch room and got a lot
> of similar reactions. I didn't realize so many of them were culturally
> deprived.
Really set 'em on their ears.... follow the kinchee with a durian. <GGG>
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