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?
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.
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”.
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?
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.