So yesterday I picked up a minced meat scallion roll from the Korean bakery up the street from the wads while getting The FullCleveland's b-day cake. I actually avoided the pork floss buns and rolls, probably because I believe that floss' usage as a culinary terms should be limited to sugar. But the minced meat was actually just pork floss on the outside. It was totally disgusting, though not quite as disgusting as the dried squid chips I once tried at a friend of my sister's house (my sister's friend consumed this stuff like I'd eat cheeto's). What I can't figure out is what the maximum age you can be to try this stuff and still like it.
It also makes me wonder about all of these books coming out that basically assume that most children won't eat certain foods, and that you have to hide healthy food from children in "bad" foods. Definitely a case of a culturally specific thing presented as objective truth (and of parents' food issues presenting themselves in their children). If dried squid,
jwipo, and pork floss bun products are a special treat Korean kids, then it seems that predisposition to avoid strong tastes can't be a universal.
Gack, I can still taste it 45 min. later.