“I don’t want any dog in mine,” said a visitor to the kimchi stand at the NRA show’s Korea pavilion, and he laughed and laughed. Get it? Because Koreans eat dog. Ha ha ha.I wanted to tell him that dog is a delicacy in Korea and they wouldn’t try to just sneak it into your food, but I’d just have been reinforcing a stereotype. Besides, David Lee and Jennifer Chon of BCD Food Incorporated didn’t seem to care. They were too busy overseeing the fried rice balls and savory Korean pancakes they were making to go with their cabbage and daikon kimchi.
“No cat today?” the same unfunny guy asked.
“No, try the Chinese pavilion,” David said.
Good one.
-- Bret Thorn at bthorn@nrn.com.
