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Doughboys

Mr. Pizza with Jesse Thorn

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Headgum / Doughboys Media

Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Guest Jesse Thorn (NPR’s Bullseye; Jordan, Jesse, Go!) joins Mitch and Wiger to dine at one of the two North American outlets of Mr. Pizza, the South Korean pizzeria with 400 restaurants in its home country. The trio judge the unique potato stuffed crust and bizarre toppings, Mitch calls out Wiger on bagels, and another edition of Drank or Stank has artisan Mountain Dew on the agenda.

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0:00.0

After the Second World War, the Potsdam Conference subdivided the Davidian Nazi Germany into

0:08.0

partitions overseen by the victors, the West managed by the United States, United Kingdom

0:12.0

and France, and the Eastern region handed to the Soviet Union.

0:15.0

This birthed the neighboring nations of West and East Germany, which would see decades

0:18.3

of conflict and tell with German reunification at the beginning of the 90s, the book was

0:21.6

shut on this particular chapter of history.

0:24.1

But in World War II's Pacific Front, the after effects of a different partition still

0:27.6

linger.

0:28.6

The 1945 division of Korea into the American administered South and the Soviet or vaccine

0:32.5

north, a particularly unfair fate for people who suffered miserably under a nightmarish

0:36.6

Japanese occupation.

0:38.3

Koreans would subsequently endure a brutal proxy war between the Cold War superpowers that

0:41.9

killed up to 20% of its population, ending in a people divided between the capitalist

0:45.7

democracy, the Republic of Korea, and the decidedly less democratic Democratic People's

0:49.9

Republic of Korea, which is endured the totalitarian rules of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il,

0:54.7

and now Kim Jong Un.

0:56.3

With South Korea, much like its bitter rival Japan, saw explosive economic growth as heavy

1:00.3

western investment helped it modernize into a thriving metropolis in powerhouse.

1:03.9

To this day, Korean importation and reinterpretation of American culture is seen in its passion

1:07.6

for PC gaming, the musical genre of K-pop, and of course in its cuisine.

1:11.9

In 1990, the same year the Berlin Wall fell, businessmen Jung Hwo-Woon founded a South

1:16.9

Korean chain restaurant serving a dish that would become the adopted national food in

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