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How do people keep up with all these petty laws? If my country banned hotdogs there's a decent chance I'd miss the announcement and accidentally put a frankfurter in a bun. I could miss it completely and I have internet! How does your average person on North Korea find out about this ban on putting sausages in bread?
They don't because this is obviously fake...
radio free asia makes shit up all the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
it gets clicks and they're an easy target so they just say whatever they think will get the most clicks.
You are aware that different countries eat different foods and just because hotdogs have become popular in South Korea doesn't mean they are that popular in North Korea, right? You are aware that this isn't that different to what China tried to do, which was to try to ban Christmas, right? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-24/chinas-government-is-cracking-down-on-christmas-festivals/10666798 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shanghai-puts-stop-spooky-season-rcna177545
The fact is that these authoritarian states don't want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves.
Only in your brainwashed circles bud. The fact is that these authoritarian states don’t want the possibility of any cultural mingling between societies, each has to be as alien as the other for the bubbles of ideology to sustain themselves. That makes it easy to vilify the other. A lot of European societies are largely atheist now, and they still celebrate Christmas, it's about sharing and enjoying culture festivities versus preventing cultural dissemination, at least bidirectionally.
Thank you for virtue signalling appropriately.
Now if you don't mind, I'm just gonna block you.
Ignoring the question of whether this is real, you'd probably find out when you can't find them at the store, order from your supplier, etc.
Basically, it would get noticed earlier in the supply chain.
Seems the government would control any hot dog factories anyway
Or this is food smuggled in, which I imagine would already be illegal.
Maybe, but it talks about popular street food in another part of the article so it seems not all food is hand delivered from the government. And a hot dog is "just" a sausage in a bun, I'd think bread and sausages would be reasonably common where food is a problem but maybe I'm wrong.
You mean wouldn’t be common?
It’s only a hotdog if it’s a hotdog sausage you philistine.
You can only call a sausage a "hotdog" if it's from the hotdog region in Germany.
Well I noticed the article has a picture of a completely different type of hot dog than what I assume they actually banned*. Does that count as a hotdog sausage?
* In New Zealand a "Hot dog" is more similar to what would be called a "Corn dog" in the US. A hot dog sausage in bread would be referred to as an "American hot dog".
Yes the sausage in a corn dog has the hotdog consistency and extra level of being processed shite.
It helps that everyone is corrupt and a general sense of displaying loyalty is more important than any supposed law on it's own.
This is actually the default way civilisation works - Western-style rule of law is new and weird.
Continuous government broadcast and propaganda on TV and radio I guess
I'm not sure if most North Korean households have a TV or radio.
They have loudspeakers that can still be heard in people's homes. They don't need a radio
Worst case they have their local equivalent of a town's crier / bellman to announce official statements to the public.
Yeah that was my line of thinking.