kimchee

kimchee (countable and uncountable, plural kimchees)

1. Alternative spelling of kimchi
   • 1976, Humphrey, Hubert H., The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, LCCN 75-36628, OCLC 1010933636, OL 5209259M, page 334:

     Kimchee is Korean sauerkraut with a kick and odor unlike any consumable food I have ever known. After I tasted it, I decided it was a self-defense mechanism. No one dared get close to you for a week. (It is made by allowing cabbage to ferment in large concrete vats.)
     We negotiated the arrangement, and the Koreans agreed to send fifty thousand troops to Vietnam. Some time later, during a cabinet meeting, Secretary McNamara indicated to the President that he was having difficulty with the Koreans. Johnson turned to me and said, “I thought you took care of all that.”
     I said I had. Then McNamara indicated that the hangup was kimchee. The Pentagon was perfectly willing to send ships, tanks, guns, and ammunition; but when the question of fermented cabbage arose, the budget cutters worked overtime. They had told the Koreans no.
     When we sent the kimchee, the problems were solved.*