Sure, we put a man on the moon, but Korea has managed to combine food container and drink cup into one revolutionary piece of snack portability technology:
Proving yet again that South Korea is light years ahead of everyone else in fast-food technology is The Col-Pop. The nation that brought the world the spiral-cut potato on a stick and hot-dog-stuffed pizza ushers in a new era of snack portability with this mashup of drink cup and food container that holds popcorn chicken up top and a cold drink in the bottom.
Somebody, call the Nobel committee.
Meanwhile, the boys at Slice dig what Pizza Hut Korea has been coming up with, namely, the Shrimp Cheese Bite and the Royal Crust Pizza. Frankly, though, if Pizza Hut Korea wants to help alleviate the nation’s critical shortage of foreign English teachers, they may want to pick up where Cambodia has left off.
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It drives me crazy when the Burger King workers lean my fries up against the drink, so I will pass on this.
Fast-food tech? Light years ahead?
Funny, I have yet to see ANY drive-thru windows (down in Songtan/Pyongtaek)
“Fast-food tech? Light years ahead?
Funny, I have yet to see ANY drive-thru windows (down in Songtan/Pyongtaek)”
There are two down in Daegu.
That Cup/Chicken thing is a bit of old actually. I tried it at a food/franchising show 6 years ago. Works really well if you like your chicken and your coke the same lukewarm temperature (its a good in concept, bad in practice invention).
I would be easier for for the Korean Jake Blues to order however.
Hahaha… that’s funny, especially the video where they cue in the 2001 Space Odyssey music.
Man, these New York foodies are easy to impress, huh?
You know what’s funnier then the post, is the Korean business that calls itself BBQ Chicken, which apparently makes the “col-pop.” No, it’s not barbeque it’s BBQ as in Best of the Best Quality chicken! Gosh, such a Konglish title.
Their web site says they want to expand globally into 50,000 locations. I don’t know if anyone did the math over there, but even the behemoth known as McDonalds only has 30,000 locations worldwide…
As vp1 notes, Koreans are relatively indifferent to temperature as part of the food experience. Keeping the hot stuff and cool stuff cool is not as urgent a matter — hence the col-pop, which seems to me as a reverse-McDLT.
The last thing a developing nation (or any nation) like Korea needs is fast food.
#7,
Most of their customers are kids…Kids aren’t very picky if what they are eating is loaded with sugar (which cola and their BBQ sauce are).
Don’t bet against BBQ Chicken. Genesis Corp., its parent, is one Korean business that has a real serious chance to pioneer outbound Korean franchising around the world. The early reviews on BBQ Chicken — the flavor of the chicken, anyway — from the US are very strong. (The service apparently sucks.) And I know it’s a hit in Malaysia.