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Remember Nyjer Morgan? Of course you do. You remember him for raising hell in Miami, the interviews he gave in Milwaukee and for taunting Giants fans. He’s now 34 and still throwing on the uni to play some ball. He’s in South Korea playing for the Hanwha Eagles. Nyjer is trying to get acclimated to life in South Korea, which means he’s trying things for the first time like red ginseng candy (via @MyKBO).
This probably wasn’t the best move during a game.
What do red ginseng candies taste like?
Today’s my lucky day eh? I think the Red Ginseng Candies smell sort of musty earthy (loamy?) even through their little hermetically sealed wrappers. TheMan said that he smelled no such earthy. I think they smelled even more earthy once you managed to get into the wrapper and that earthy does not go away if you pop the candy in your mouth. TheMan at least agrees with me on that last bit.
However. I was talking to my assistant, who is Korean, about ginseng and she said that the roots taste earthy and medicine-y and that old school Koreans stand by the ‘magical’ properties of ginseng root. Magical being in quotes here because I wasn’t sure if it was ‘magical’ as in a very effective homeopathic cure-all for quite a lot of things or ‘magical’ as in ‘we don’t need doctors, we have ginseng!’ I forgot to ask. Anyway, from her description the candy is spot on for what one would expect from ginseng, so I can’t fault it for its dirt like taste with a sort of mild mentholation after wash. Apparently, that’s ginseng.
The other big news for Nyjer is that he’s playing for a team that is trying to replace fans with cheering robots. He’s about to go on the wildest ride of his life. Red ginseng candy and cheering robots — Tony Plush might start rethinking this career extension in Korea idea.
