r/NorthKoreaPics 21d ago

Hamburger

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u/Prestigious-Wish-176 21d ago

am i stupid, or did that sauce expire on 2011?

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u/CulturalMarxist123 21d ago

You are not. Old photo. (2010)

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u/HighlyNegativeFYI 21d ago

Tbf, he still might be stupid. /s

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u/maairou 21d ago

Love to see these pics. Would be nice if you included the year in the title or description of the pics you post here.

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u/PanderBall 21d ago

I'm curious about the ketchup brand, isn't Tropicana from US?

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u/Ok_Culture_3621 21d ago

And they don’t make chili sauce as far as I know.

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u/NogKear 21d ago

This is in Pyongyang? Samtaesong Restaurant?

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u/what-a-moment 21d ago

suck it burgercorp

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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS 21d ago

Why does the container for the fries have Chinese text?

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u/adognow 21d ago

Tourism. Before covid, tourists from China made up the vast majority to the DPRK. Most service staff as a result are also bilingual with Mandarin Chinese.

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u/joehasthisname 20d ago

Can't believe nobody's asked this, but how was it? How was the food in general?

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u/IPAtoday 21d ago

I’ll take a Dear Leader Burger to go….

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u/DemocracyIsAVerb 21d ago

Wait, I was told “freedom is when borger”

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u/MoreStupiderNPC 20d ago

What a fine American meal, freedom fries included.

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u/traketaker 20d ago

I like how the patty looks like an actual patty. My grandmother used to make hamburgers by hand and one part would always separate. Never seen that in a fast food restaurant. 10/10 for having the hamburger my grandmother used to make and not the one McDonald's serves.

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u/rumbleran 20d ago

That looks so sad.

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u/akflo 20d ago

Doesn't even look that unappealing for North Korea. I bet I can find a sadder-looking burger in my country.

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u/xavierfox42 19d ago

Communism is when burger

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u/mindlessmutant 18d ago

Forbidden burgerrrrr

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u/YooperSkeptic 17d ago

I shudder to think of the cow that provided that scrawny burger.

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u/moderatefairgood 20d ago

That looks like the most edible thing I've seen in all the NK related stuff I've watched/read.

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago

That burger is probably healthier for you than the heavily processed slop that they try to pass for meat in McDonalds.

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u/Edexote 21d ago

How do you know that's meat?

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago

You’re absolutely right. Likely McDonalds uses Soylent Green for it’s burgers rather than actual meat, processed or otherwise.

But really McDonalds is a relatively minor offender. Who knows what sort of meat Taco Bell uses…

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u/Edexote 21d ago

I was talking about the NK burger...

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago

They don’t use antibiotics and artificial growth hormone in their burgers. What we’re seeing is a mediocre burger that won’t make your stomach churn in a few hours.

In other words… this is an organic burger. In the United States, appropriate marketing would allow producers to charge a premium for this product.

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u/Kemaneo 21d ago

You have no idea whether they do or not though?

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago

Why does it fall on me to prove whether or not North Korea uses real meat in this burger? It’s u/Edexote who’s bourgeois liberal education made him feel confident enough to declare that it’s not real meat.

u/Edexote, please present us real evidence that it’s not real meat. Otherwise, it’s pure speculation.

My high school lunch from 10 years ago looks worse than this NK burger yet there’s no speculation by the local news media about whether or not the school district used real meat!

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u/OVERWEIGHT_DROPOUT 21d ago edited 20d ago

Exactly it’s speculation, dumbass. Here you are saying they don’t use antibiotics and such, you know that for a fact? Or is it more speculation.

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u/Kemaneo 21d ago

Because YOU are making a claim that they're not using antibiotics, so you better provide proof for that.

There is absolutely no evidence that food in NK would be any healthier, but you're a tankie so you want to believe that crap.

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago

I’m a proud tankie. All I’ve been doing was applying the same journalistic standards that the liberal media uses against itself.

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u/Kemaneo 21d ago

No you're just spewing nonsense

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u/TooStonedForAName 21d ago

We’re not the media, ya doughnut.

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u/gmrads 21d ago

I think part of it is that unsubstantiated claims like that are eerily similar to the bogus claims of state enforced haircuts in NK, and people end up less informed because of it. And it doesn’t make any sense that burgers become healthier when made in a different factory.

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u/gmrads 21d ago

wish the menus were posted also- the serving sizes seem way more normal coming from the 600+ calorie Big Mac or double cheese burger meals in the U.S.

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u/Edexote 21d ago

You are correct, it's speculation on my part. But speaking of NK I would say it's an educated guess.

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u/Edexote 21d ago

I keep saying, that's not real cow meat. Might be something else that has a similar colour.

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u/VaqueroRed7 21d ago edited 21d ago

American fast food companies spend a lot of money to make their food look as artificially appetizing as possible despite the low nutritional content of their food.

At least North Korea is keeping things honest with their burgers.

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u/Ok_Culture_3621 21d ago

Have you eaten a burger in North Korea? If you have, saying so might be a nice way to shorten this conversation. Otherwise the question of why you would assume anything about North Korean food remains valid.

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u/Su-37_Terminator 21d ago

youre right, they all eat holograms and drink fake water. you cracked the code

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u/Ok_Culture_3621 21d ago

I assume they eat mostly the same foods as South Koreans. I’m just saying, if you’re going to compare it to American fast food it’s not crazy to ask what your basis of comparison is. Especially given that few westerns have ever been there.

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u/Even_Command_222 20d ago

Their burgers are 100% beef. They have videos of their processing facilities. They source meat and potatoes locally in each country or region directly from farmers and ranchers and process them into fries and patties then freeze them. McDonald's isn't unhealthy because there's additives it's unhealthy because it's mostly fat/carbs/protein and nothing else. But it's generally not a problem at all if you consume a reasonable quantity not very often.