RE: [CH] kim chi
danceswithcarp (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:30:23 -0500
At 02:58 AM 1/19/02 -0800, Terry Van Kirk wrote:
>Um, does anybody know, what does it mean, you're in deep kim chi?
I first heard it in the army in the 70s. A lot of guys had been stationed
on the 38th paralell and I assume instead of saying "deep sh*t" they said
"deep kimchi," possibly due to the smell of a bucket fermenting. When it
is enclosed and still wirking it is *powerful*.
I have a Korean-American girl in one of my classes and her Ma' sent me a
Big Jar of fresh kimchi last week. She doesn't have the recipe because she
does it by either instinct or sight. I opened it in the classroom and for
the rest of the day kids came in, sniffed, wrinkled up their noses and
looked around and started asking who crapped.
I had it every day for lunch in the teachers' lunch room and got a lot of
similar reactions. I didn't realize so many of them were culturally
deprived.
carp