06. 22. BREAKFAST

“French Pie” and banana milk

What’s so French about it, I would like to know? Well, anyway, here’s another old staple from the days of yore. I actually bought a box for the kids I would be coaching in debate, since the class started at midnight and I thought that was crazy enough for them to want a bite of something. I was famished by then, definitely, and I was already halfway through when the kids started arriving. And I think something like two of them accepted. Huh. It’s not that these are bad, because honestly, even though they’re not the first choice on anybody’s list of favorite snacks, it is pretty much undeniable that they taste good. Logically, by midnight, they should taste fantastic. I just don’t understand what goes on in their heads — why would you ever decline free food? Or maybe they were just too tired to eat anything, I guess I could understand that. But anyway the point is that I have nearly a whole box of these left and my father and I are eating them every chance we get.

06. 17. BREAKFAST

walnut raisin bread and mystery sausage (천하장사)

The bread is an old friend, the last slice of which I thought somebody had eaten but in reality it had just slipped behind some containers and was hidden from the prying eyes of the world. It’s all gone now, though. And the mystery sausage, that was an impulse buy because I realized that I hadn’t had one since I was in elementary school or thereabouts. For a snack with a name like “THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD”, it’s ridiculous how mystifying its composition is. Kids will eat anything without question. Actually, I still eat it without question. Apparently it contains fish, pork, egg and cheese as possible sources of protein. Some snack. Now they seem to be selling knock-offs of this time-honored food, packaged with drawings of sexy cartoon people and catchy marketing phrases. Who are they kidding, it’s a snack made of fish and pork. You can’t glam that up no matter how hard you try.