Mmm ... Korean pork popsicles

by Joe DiStefano, Posted Aug 26th 2007 @ 10:08AM

I hate to be known as the food blogger who cried weird, but this has got to be one of the stranger ethnic junk foods I've come across. You read that headline right folks. Just look at that packaging, a porcine Gene Kelly hoofing away in top hat and tails accompanied by his own musical score. Sarah, my fellow blogger and West Coast connection to all things Korean, tells me those yellow characters translate to dae bah, or pork bar. For some reason, I'm more comfortable referring to this frozen treat as crunch ice.

There are two types of people when it comes to Crunch Ice, those who are disappointed to learn that it's not a frozen treat composed of cracklin, lardo and boudin noir and those who are relieved. I fall into the latter category, I enjoyed Crunch Ice for what is, a vanilla ice cream pop encased in chocolate crunchies with a strawberry center. I'm pretty sure my dear friend Mr. Cutlets was disappointed to learn that Crunch Ice was not a pork-based frozen confection when I gave him a package for his 40th birthday last week. Ah well, pearls before swine; maybe swine before pearls is more apt in this instance.

Filed Under: Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: asia, boudin noir, BoudinNoir, cracklin, dairy, dessert, Gene Kelly, GeneKelly, ice cream, ice cream pops, IceCream, IceCreamPops, Korean food, KoreanFood, lardo, Mister Cutlets, MisterCutlets, oddities, pigs, popsicles, pork

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8-26-2007 @5:42PM C(h)ristine said... No no no! It is yes, "dwae jee bah" which means pork or pig bar--but it is more translatable to "piggy bar." This is something I LOVED eating when I visited Korea as a child, and it tastes like a decadent Nestle crunch ice cream bar. NOTHING like pig or pork.

It's DELICIOUS.

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8-26-2007 @9:38PM LJKelley said... Don't expect Westerners to understand Korea or Korean things or terminology.

Korean Ice creams are very good! (As well as Kimpa)

My dad worked there for 18 years and they have some very good food :)
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8-27-2007 @12:47AM C(h)ristine said... LJKelley: for sure--I LOVE Korean ice creams, and the names of ice cream bars and such are very "slang" and tongue-in-cheek. Piggy bar means something very different culturally than it would in the U.S.

And yes, people don't always understand Korean food, food products, or terminology.

For that reason, I make a point of blogging about Korean food consistently on my food blog, Muffin Top.

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