today's round 2

This is the frozen pizza that I'd enhanced yesterday and saved for today. Once again, a single pizza proved to be enough for the whole day. I didn't get a picture of the lack of a flop jalop this time around (it's also called a slop jalop), but here's what I did get:

Single guy, so of course it's served on the cutting board.

food-porn angle

right before the head-biting

Yesterday's pizza was a generic CJ brand (CJ is a huge Korean corporation with its fingers in many pies, from cinema to food); today's pizza was an Ottogi (written Oddugi/오뚜기 in Korean; I don't understand the incorrect romanization, but whatever); this brand, advertised as a "five-cheese" pizza, came with mysterious lumps of a grey/white substance that was probably cheese, but which looked like balled-up bits of Bratwurst or Korean-style fish paste (eo-muk/어묵 or odaeng/오댕—see here for balls). By the time the enhanced Ottogi was done baking, the mysterious balls had melted into the overall topography of the pizza, and the pizza tasted much the same as yesterday's CJ. Huh. I guess that's how low the quality of frozen pizza is in Korea—to the point of being equally, indistinguishably bad whatever the brand.

But with the enhancements, the pizzas were both quite good if not exactly restaurant quality. My spicy tomato sauce livened them both up, and the addition of the sausage, pepperoni, and mozzarella made a huge difference in the eating experience. That might make for an interesting dinner-party idea: Bring over a dish that started life as a mere pre-frozen product, but which you've taken in your own special direction. And there's nothing stopping you from changing what the final dish might be: I see it all the time on YouTube, such as when el Burrito Monster makes one of his gigantically perverse "burritos" using oodles of mini-gyoza, giant tortillas, Asian-style chicken, and other funky flourishes, so I know the sky's the limit. Take your dumplings and make a megadumpling or a gorgeous soup. Take your frozen mac & cheese and make an awesome stuffed chicken. Whatever works.

Meantime, I've got another whole frozen pizza in the freezer, but I have no room to eat it, so it'll have to wait until next weekend. Eating in general will have to wait until next weekend; this weekend was utterly ruinous for my blood sugar and blood pressure. My BP was high this morning at 135/92, and my blood sugar was fucking 238, which startled a laugh out of me. It's going to take the whole coming week to get back down below 150, if that's even possible, and then I'm going to eat my final pizza next Saturday, which will ruin yet another weekend.

So much for trying to get slimmer before July. Fuck.

Oh, crap—and I need to start practicing how to tie that damn knot on my hanbok. It's one of those things that you desperately learn for one occasion, then forget for ten years, then desperately relearn for another occasion. Until it's finally time for your friends and loved ones to wear their hanbok for you.