the same people who turned their nose up at my love of sauerkraut for years and told me how gross it is because “icky smell” are suddenly all about kimchi and i’m convinced it’s 100% some orientalism shit
I’m starting to think that the sauerkraut that people eat in the anglosphere is actually rank. I hate the smell and taste of most cabbage-derived vegetables, but the sauerkraut I’ve had in Germany never had that typical cabbage-smell.
That plus kimchi has spices in it, and also hasn’t been around long enough, in mainstream American culture, to be reduced to the absolute abyss of quality that modern American food industry eventually pushes everything to.
the same people who turned their nose up at my love of sauerkraut for years and told me how gross it is because “icky smell” are suddenly all about kimchi and i’m convinced it’s 100% some orientalism shit
Korean culture, specifically KPop, is having its moment in the sun which means anything tangentially associated will be popular for a while.
I’m starting to think that the sauerkraut that people eat in the anglosphere is actually rank. I hate the smell and taste of most cabbage-derived vegetables, but the sauerkraut I’ve had in Germany never had that typical cabbage-smell.
They don’t deserve it’s refreshing sourness!
Or, hear me out: Kimchi tastes good, while Sauerkraut tastes like Ass on a plate.
That plus kimchi has spices in it, and also hasn’t been around long enough, in mainstream American culture, to be reduced to the absolute abyss of quality that modern American food industry eventually pushes everything to.
Sauerkraut has spices too (especially caraway seeds
fennel) but usually not hot spices, unlike kimchiHere in southern Germany it’s caraway. Both make it easier on the stomach
That’s it! I knew fennel didn’t sound exactly right.
BuT, bUt, BuT, iT’s sO eXoTiC and kawaii and other terms vaguely associated to Asia in American pop culture.