Different gustatory standards

[debgeisler]

Via Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, this is labeled Two Lists of Complaints, by Stuart Zehner:

1.

Complaints
My Middle-School Students
in Korea Had About Our
School's Food.

"The rice is cold."

"The kimchi is dry."

2.

Complaints
American Middle-School
Students Would Have If
They Were Served
Korean Food.

"There's an entire fish in my soup."

"The fish in my soup still has eyes."

"The fish in my soup with eyes is full of fish eggs."

"What is this?"

"They made me eat off a metal tray with chopsticks."

"I was served a vertebra."

"This salad is clearly made from the bush in the front of the school."

"I told you last week I don't like fish eggs!"

"The menu says we're having chicken anus for lunch."

"The live baby octopus you served me stuck to my throat and died."

"There wasn't any pizza."

"This is dog meat."

"It's too spicy."

"The rice is cold."

"The kimchi is dry."

Other good lists worth checking out are :

Selected
Reading Materials
From the Waiting Room
of Albert Camus, D.D.S.
BY ADAM SHALVEY

Expressions
for Vegans.
BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG [This includes "Let's talk Tofurkey." *snort*]

Phrases
Commonly Used by
1950s Housewives
That Were Often
Misinterpreted
by the Housewives'
Husbands as Blatant
Requests for Sex.
BY WHITNEY COLLINS

Who Said It:
Vice President
Dick Cheney or
Phil Leotardo From
The Sopranos?
BY BENJAMIN FREED