Troop hot pot (proverb:) is a Korean hot pot that originated during the Korean War. Due to a shortage of supplies, people living near the U.S. military base in Gyeonggi-do used sausage and luncheon meat collected from neighboring U.S. military camps in South Korea as the main ingredient, and added pungent bitter-pepper sauce (now Korean sweet chili sauce) and a soup base to make a hot pot to ease the pain of long periods of meatlessness.

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Legend No. 1: Jjigongbok, a special kind of Korean cuisine, is a product of the culture of the military stationed in Korea after the Korean War. Its main ingredients are ham and sausage.

These used to be the side dishes for the U.S. troops to supplement their nutrition, and at that time, a part of the leftover food of the U.S. troops was somehow strayed into the civilian world through some means. Later, there was a master of Korean cuisine, using these materials to create a stew with Korean characteristics, the flavor quality is delicious, a great, and began to sell, the troops pot thus named.

Legend 2: During the Korean War, the U.S. military in South Korea was rich in supplies, some U.S. military personnel do not take it seriously, can not eat it thrown away.

The military also stipulated that hams and sausages supplied as munitions must automatically be disposed of as garbage after a certain period of circulation. Since the edible items are sufficient, they are thrown away even if they have a shelf life of more than a day. The leftover or discarded hams and sausages of the U.S. troops were collected by neighborhood residents, cooked with kimchi and found to be delicious, hence the troop soup.

Legend No. 3, in the South Korean army, Korean soldiers, for dietary convenience, put tofu, vegetables, kimchi, noodles and other food into the same pot to cook, like a smorgasbord, and can be prepared at a time for more than one person servings, in a very fast and convenient at the same time so that they are more powerful to put into the battle of the courage to kill the enemy, so there is a "troop pot," so that the name "troop pot".

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