Has given new substance to his people
It has taken almost 10 years of work, but North Korea has acquired the technology to launch a project very dear to its leader’s heart – the nation’s first “authentic” Italian pizzeria.
The launch of Pyongyang’s first Italian restaurant meanwhile brings to fruition a ten-year effort by Kim Jong-il – a renowned gourmand and lover of western food – to create the perfect pizza and pasta in his homeland.
Last year a delegation of local chefs was sent by Kim to Naples and Rome to learn the proper Italian techniques after their homegrown efforts to mimic Italian cuisine were found by Kim to contain “errors”.
“Errors” which probably cost the chef’s their lives.
So Kim Jong Il has people digging up roots to eat so they won’t starve to death and he’s searching for the perfect pie.
Sounds a little bit like the U.S. Congress.
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Opening his nation up to Western capitalism could’ve meant he’d have gotten his pie sooner.
I’ve always wondered what dog-pizza with kimchee tastes like.
Imagine how hard it has to be making “authentic” pizza when most of the people in your country are eating tree bark and dirt.