Banana Milk
So banana milk is like my favorite beverage here. And it's especially awesome in the morning time, coupled with kimbap for breakfast! I decided to Google banana milk and here is what I stole from a website:
Banana milk is a popular Korean beverage. The beverage first hit Korean store shelves in 1974. The problem with milk is to the Korean palette milk tasted weird. It's hard to imagine someone dunking a chocolate chip cookie in an ice cold glass of fresh milk and proclaiming the taste repellant. But then no Korean could imagine a person putting some slimy kimchi in his mouth and spitting it out proclaiming "I didn't think any fermented cabbage product could be more disgusting than sauerkraut but now I know I've been wrong all these long years. Holy shit, do you Koreans really eat this stuff?" The Binggrae company (founded in 1969) got the idea to add banana flavoring to the milk. Koreans go bananas for bananas. And they packaged it in a funky stubby little bottle that resembled to some a hand grenade and to others a traditional kimchi pot. The adult generation in the '70s were still dairy avoiders but the kids loved it. It was sweet and the grenade-like packaging was hard to resist. Vendors with their tubs filled with ice and bottles of banana milk became common place at fairs and parks. In the same way a North American has a childhood filled with sweet memories of the day their crappy, cheap parents crowbarred a buck out of their wallets to splurge on a corn dog, Koreans have many a fond memory of their parents buying them a bottle of icy cold banana milk at the park. Banana milk eventually became the number one product sold in Korean convenience stores. Banana milk out sold cigarettes and if you know Koreans, that's a most astounding claim.
Banana milk is a popular Korean beverage. The beverage first hit Korean store shelves in 1974. The problem with milk is to the Korean palette milk tasted weird. It's hard to imagine someone dunking a chocolate chip cookie in an ice cold glass of fresh milk and proclaiming the taste repellant. But then no Korean could imagine a person putting some slimy kimchi in his mouth and spitting it out proclaiming "I didn't think any fermented cabbage product could be more disgusting than sauerkraut but now I know I've been wrong all these long years. Holy shit, do you Koreans really eat this stuff?" The Binggrae company (founded in 1969) got the idea to add banana flavoring to the milk. Koreans go bananas for bananas. And they packaged it in a funky stubby little bottle that resembled to some a hand grenade and to others a traditional kimchi pot. The adult generation in the '70s were still dairy avoiders but the kids loved it. It was sweet and the grenade-like packaging was hard to resist. Vendors with their tubs filled with ice and bottles of banana milk became common place at fairs and parks. In the same way a North American has a childhood filled with sweet memories of the day their crappy, cheap parents crowbarred a buck out of their wallets to splurge on a corn dog, Koreans have many a fond memory of their parents buying them a bottle of icy cold banana milk at the park. Banana milk eventually became the number one product sold in Korean convenience stores. Banana milk out sold cigarettes and if you know Koreans, that's a most astounding claim.


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