Every time I eat dried roasted seaweed by itself he gets annoyed at me, telling me, “It’s not a snack! It’s a side dish! You have to eat it with other stuff!” Seems like a perfect snack food to me. Comes in little packs, has a nice savory salty taste.

He has explained that the reason why he says that is because as a child in Korea he wasn’t allowed to eat it as a snack. That was because instead of serving store bought dried seaweed, his mother would make it herself. So this involved a lot of work because it’s roasted with sesame oil and salt. So his mother (and other mothers it seems) didn’t like their kids just grabbing it for a snack.

BUT, I pointed out to him that we just buy it very cheaply from the Korean grocery store. He exclaimed, “It’s not cheap!” But then did some quick maths in his head and said, “Ah yeah… it is cheap.”

That doesn’t stop him from sighing in frustration every time I grab a packet from the cupboard to eat though.