TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoKim Jong-un bans hotdogs for North Koreans, cooking them an act of treasonwww.nzherald.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down152
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minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·3 days agoWe joke about hotdogs being mystery meat, but North Korean hotdogs have to be a terrifying enigma of amalgamated animal proteins.
minus-squareTheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·3 days agoSupposedly the produce in North Korea is really really good since no one will sell them modern farming equipment or technology, so it’s all done using old methods.
minus-squareFilthyHands@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoSome would call forced labor the oldest method.
minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoWe are talking about hotdogs, not produce grown with human fertilizer. Ain’t no way they are making artisanal organic whole meat hotdogs unless the emphasis is on the “dog”.
minus-squareGeometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoYou think tractors worsen vegetable quality or something?
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoNo, but vegetable breeds optimized for yield, requiring modern fertilizer and pesticides, do.
We joke about hotdogs being mystery meat, but North Korean hotdogs have to be a terrifying enigma of amalgamated animal proteins.
Supposedly the produce in North Korea is really really good since no one will sell them modern farming equipment or technology, so it’s all done using old methods.
Some would call forced labor the oldest method.
We are talking about hotdogs, not produce grown with human fertilizer.
Ain’t no way they are making artisanal organic whole meat hotdogs unless the emphasis is on the “dog”.
You think tractors worsen vegetable quality or something?
No, but vegetable breeds optimized for yield, requiring modern fertilizer and pesticides, do.