{"id":328,"date":"2012-12-10T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/?p=328"},"modified":"2013-10-04T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:20:24","slug":"new-sketchbook-theme-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/328","title":{"rendered":"New sketchbook theme. Sweet."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 2001, I started a new sketchbook based on product descriptions from the Haitai Confectionery Company’s English website<\/a>. If you poke around that site today, you’ll see clunky Korean-to-English translation in a few places. Twelve years ago, the translations were much<\/em> rougher and, in my opinion, much more amusing.<\/p>\n

Many of the snacks you’ll see described here are apparently no longer marketed. I’ve had the occasional pleasure of seeing some on shelves of Asian-import grocery stores, but others are sadly lost to the ages, without even a mention on the web. All connoisseurs of South Korean snack foods are encouraged to leave a comment and enlighten me on the products you recognize. The descriptions, as you will soon see, are not particularly helpful.<\/p>\n

To give credit where credit is due: I originally found the Haitai site via the long-defunct Misterpants.com<\/a>. To see what he said about it back in the olden days of blogging, scroll down to the end of the 07.04.00 entry.<\/p>\n

First sketch from this batch is coming up soon. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2001, I started a new sketchbook based on product descriptions from the Haitai Confectionery Company’s English website. If you poke around that site today, you’ll see clunky Korean-to-English translation in a few places. Twelve years ago, the translations were much rougher and, in my opinion, much more amusing. Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haitai-confectionery","category-theme-sketchbooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1iEpY-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HaitaiOhYes.jpg?fit=600%2C521&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}