July 07, 2004

May I Take Your Order?

Yeah, I'll have a double bread with meat and a large cesspool water of American capitalism.

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It has recently been reported that Kim Jong Il has invented the hamburger and is sharing his culinary triumph with university students and other deserving types in his starving nation. The Dear Leader has had a 'double bread with meat' factory built, but it is unknown if there has been a sharp drop in the number of political prisoners since it ramped up production. The news report also made no mention of any "special sauce" :

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has introduced hamburgers to his reclusive, communist country in a campaign to provide "quality" food to university students, media reported Wednesday.
The hamburgers were introduced in 2000 and dubbed "gogigyeopbbang," Korean for "double bread with meat," according to the June 29 edition of the North Korean state-run newspaper Minju Joson.
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Although reports from the isolated country have in recent years mentioned the introduction of the American fast food classic, the latest announcement seems to credit the country's leader for their advent.

The news marks a curious development for North Korea, where U.S. consumerism is routinely reviled in the official media and people refer to the soft drink Coca Cola as the "cesspool water of American capitalism."

Wednesday's report cites leader Kim Jong Il as saying at the time of the hamburger's introduction: "I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and french fries to university students, professors and researchers even if we are in (economic) hardship."

The government then built a hamburger plant and Kim Jong Il ordered officials to pay close attention to modernizing mass production, the report was quoted as saying by Yonhap.

Hamburgers from the factory were first provided only to students at the elite Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, but were later provided to other schools, the daily said.

(Via Lucianne.)

Posted by floridacracker at July 7, 2004 07:54 AM

   



Comments

But will he get yelled at by Algore that his economic recovery was based on the creation of a ton of burger-flipping jobs?

I think not.

Posted by: James at July 7, 2004 04:26 PM

Algore and Dear Leader have a common enemy.

Posted by: Donnah at July 7, 2004 10:29 PM

Hold the pickles hold the lettuce
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us
Have it your way...

Something tells me you'll get shot if you dare ask them to change something about the burger.

Posted by: James at July 8, 2004 11:22 PM

It's PEOPLE!!

Posted by: Donnah at July 8, 2004 11:25 PM