Scramble Sausage

Place of Purchase: GS25, Incheon, Jung-Gu

Cost: 2200 KRW ($1.95)

KCal: 482

I can't seem to decide if the name "Scramble Sausage" is appetizing or not. Through the cellophane it's messy and hard to see any contents of the sandwich. The "Konglish" word 'scramble' means scrambled eggs. 

It's actually quite a nice surprise. I had no great expectations of Scramble Sausage, but this is good. It's an egg salad with pieces of corn (niblets?) and chunks of a garlicky smoked sausage mixed in, and surprisingly generously so. 

I like sausage. My favorite kind of sausage is breakfast sausage. It reminds me of when I was a kid waking up to the smell dad cooking Jimmy Dean sausage patties. He always cooked breakfast on the weekends, and I always have that very nice memory of sausage patties. His breakfasts weren't always good. One time he made a breakfast scramble with canned peaches and eggs. That wasn't very good.

They don't sell breakfast sausage in Korea. I rather miss having it.

Dad also used to cook hot dogs on the barbecue. He would cook them until they burst and had a charred black crust. I always just figured that's how they were supposed to be cooked and even now like that charred taste on my hot dogs.

Oh, how dad loved his barbecue. He would fire that thing up every weekend almost without fail. He even put up a covered patio so the rain would not stop him. His hamburgers were immense, beastly things the size and shape of softballs, in no way resembling a patty. They were usually raw and cold in the middle. Dad said 'medium rare', but no, they were raw. Sometimes it was chicken, sometimes pork, and of course steak. But still, the smell of breakfast sausage brings me back to those times best, makes me think of dad and his unique array of food.

I miss dad. He died a few months ago. I wish he hadn't.

 I will get Scramble Sausage again. Thumbs up for Scramble Sausage. 4.5 stars. Small deduction for the corn, which I didn't think brought much to the party.