POP Snacks and Nazi Rice

I know, you expected this to be a paean to Pop Rocks, Magic Gum, and other hypercarbonated snacks of the 80s. But this is even better.

Someone I know recently got back from Korea, and brought a bunch of snacks, including something called 'POP' Snack. With the quotes and everything. Basically just rice cakes, except for the packaging.

Now, usually I don't go crazy over East Asians and their bizarre English. (It's certainly better than Americans and their bizarre Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--"bonsai" and "banzai" are not the same word, damnit!) But in this case....

Written on the package was the sentence: "Let's establish heatlh society by abolishing inferior food."

This is creepy.

At first it sounds sort of bad-spelling-hippie (which is better than the usual bad-smelling-hippie).

Then suddenly the Nazi overtones hit you.

Finally, you realize with relief that it's actually talking about the cleansing of inferior food, not people. Some Hitler of the rice fields is attempting to establish a master race of pure white rice.

Not so scary, but still sort of disturbing. I was just about to become amazed at the Koreans' lack of sensitivity to racist fascism after their treatment by their neighbors during WWII, not the mention the previous millenia, when I remembered Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netenyahu and it all makes sense.

Anyway, I'm not sure how much lebensraum a grain of rice needs--I'm sure any farmers out there can help me. But if I were the soy in the next field over, I'd watch out. Or at least make sure that I didn't form all my defenses into a big line that reaches almost all the way across the field.