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In the end, Ellen couldn’t bring herself to spit out what she was eating, so she forcefully swallowed it down. She gulped down several mouthfuls of water after that, probably due to the strong scent of the cheonggukjang that was spreading pleasantly.
“Why does it… smell like this…”
Ellen kept drinking water. Whatever the case, I continued to eat with gusto, and Ellen looked at me and at the surrounding men who were eating voraciously as if we were something monstrous.
After a little while, Ellen, who was watching me eat with such relish and the people around us feasting without restraint, scooped another spoonful with a dazed expression and brought it to her mouth.
“…”
Again, with an expression full of regret, she couldn’t spit it out. Instead, she forced herself to chew, and swallowed it down.
“Am I… the weird one here…?” Ellen murmured to herself, her lips trembling slightly in bewilderment.
She couldn’t understand how everyone else seemed to enjoy the dish while she simply couldn’t stomach it. It was making her question if there was something wrong with her.
‘That’s right. This food is meant to be like that! I also disliked it when I was younger!’
It was something that grew on you.
You’d continue to dislike it, then one day, suddenly you’d think of cheonggukjang, and crave it from then on.
It was the same for all my friends of the same age.
‘That’s...
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