Those mfs lied to us
General Tso never even tried his sauce.
IIRC the sauce was invented in San Francisco, as were fortune cookies.
Except it’s more generally accepted that it’s from New York, and not San Fran.
Where did you ever find information tracing it to San fransisco?
I don’t remember, I just remembered reading that both of those were made by some Chinese immigrant that started a “Chinese food” shop in San Francisco, some time in the 1930s or so. Seemed believable since there were a lot of Chinese immigrants in California as early as the 1850s cause of the railroad
Fortune cookies were originally Japanese, but when the Japanese were sent to the internment camps, the Chinese opportunistically began serving them in their restaurants on the West Coast
General Tso died in 1885, yet General Tso’s Chicken is invented around 1970. They are almost 100 years apart.
Gobi manchurian was made by Cantonese merchants in Kolkata.
Hawaiian pizza is from Canada.
@OutlierBlue @sjmarf its inventor was also of Greek descent
By a greek in Canada inspired by chinese dishes. Truly mr worldwide food.
They just call it beef there. Kind of like how the French call toasted bread “le pain internationale” and French toast is just toast.
Is this a Quebec thing ? I have never ever heard anyone say “le pain international” in my entire life as a French man, sacre blue !
Toast bread = pain de mie
French toast = pain perdu
It was a joke.
I am actually half French Canadian but my dad had us raised English only, and now I’m trying to relearn it.
It sucked going to my grandfather’s funeral and the extended family thought I was my cousin’s friend because I didn’t speak French.
It made me angry. This is the sign of an excellent joke. Bien joué l’ami ! (l’ami, la mie, pun intended :))
French toast is “pain d’ici”
That took me a second to click in for some reason lol.
Also:
Wtf, it’s not from Gingeria?
Is that in Ireland?
Scotland, I believe.
Belgium and Northern France have Filet Américain (American Filet). So an American dish right? Well no, it’s raw ground beef, basically the last thing most Americans will ever willingly eat. Here it’s basically the default sandwich topping.
how does one safely prepare raw ground beef?
The same way you safely prepare steak tartare?
By grinding it fresh under controlled conditions
Though according to experts, there’s still a health risk, like raw egg.
italians and other europoors eat completely raw or undercooked meats every now and then, including raw chicken and raw pork.
plenty of european cultural dishes would be highly illegal to serve here in the US of A (and i am glad for that)
They played us for absolute fools
for absolute foods
What? Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that sex on the beach doesn’t involve any sand!
Singapore noodles probably aren’t from Singapore either.
Taiwan has created so many incredible foods and drinks I gotta say.
“Damn mongorians.”
Keep ruining the shitty wok
I know this is a shitpost but it’s a kind of restaurant where you go to a ingredients bar to pick stuff you want to eat and hand them to a cook who stir fry them in front of you. Basically a weird all you can eat hibachi where the cook doesn’t even make eye contact with you. The guy invented it named it that to sound exotic.
That’s Mongolian BBQ. Mongolian beef is a different thing. None of these things are from Mongolia lol
Australian Shepherds are actually from the American West.
Yea, Singapore noodles are from Hong Kong and Tikka Masala is from the UK of all places.
My favourite weird food thing is that Japanese curry is a reinterpretation of UK curry which is in turn a reinterpretation of Indian curries.
I love the circuitous route it took to hop north east a ways, and how distinct it is due to this.