A recent comment made by one of my Jinju friends got me thinking about how much foreigners spend and are willing to spend on little bits of home.
My friend spent the equivalent of $8 on a small jar of peanut butter. I haven't bought peanut butter in awhile, but I used to quite frequently last year. Nutella is a super-splurge at about $13 a jar. I do, however, buy parmasan cheese, which is over $5 for the smallest bottle available, 85 grams. Some things we're just willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for.
Don't get me started on cheese. I miss cheese so incredibly much, it's actually quite ridiculous. I had the opportunity once to go to Costco in Busan (yes, Korea has Costco, which is a journey in itself) and I bought pretty much nothing but cheese and then promptly ate it all within about a two-week time period. If one can find cheese in a store in Korea, it's very small and VERY expensive, but sooooo worth it.
Us foreigners definitely miss home and most things within it and we're willing to do many a thing, including spending our hard-earned Won, to get a little piece of home.
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