{"id":478,"date":"2013-10-05T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:36:29","slug":"matdongsan-snack-of-korean-people-which-have-continuously-been-beloved-for-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/478","title":{"rendered":"MATDONGSAN: “Snack of Korean people, which have continuously been beloved for 25 years.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Candy_Matdong\"<\/a>

by Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jenny DevilDoll Gonzalez-Blitz writes:<\/em> What was I overmedicated on when I came up with this?!?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jenny’s just as active as ever. Check out her blog<\/a> for her comics, paintings, performances, rants and rats.<\/p>\n

Frank Cho<\/a> was the target of much ridicule in the small press comics community following his contentious role in the 1999 Ignatz Awards. I think he made some dismissive comments about minicomics as well? Maybe? I don’t remember exactly, but it sure seemed important to us at the time.<\/p>\n

Matdongsan is Haitai’s most popular product, or at least its best known. It made The Korea Blog’s listicle of Top 10 Korean Snacks<\/a>, at any rate.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone must have taken another stab at translating the above quote, because Haitai’s website now claims\u00c2\u00a0 “The people have endlessly loved Matdongsan for over 28 years.”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 According to this article, it’s been around since 1975<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d better tack on another decade of love to that figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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