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I often wonder about General Tso - someone who was once a great military leader, but is now known for a dish of chicken.
by skykooler 10y ago
I often wonder about General Tso - someone who was once a great military leader, but is now known for a dish of chicken.
- steego 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang If you were looking for a guy to suppress and crush rebellions, this was your man. As an aside, I would be very hesitant to call him General Chicken.
- est 10y ago> suppress and crush rebellions The general crushes radical Muslims, or in modern term, terrorists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1862%E2%80%9377) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1862%E2%80%9377...
- evanelias 10y agoStrangely, in Boston they call the dish "General Gau's Chicken". This never made sense to me. Then again, Bostonians also have a weird taxonomy around milkshakes vs "frappes" (and also "malts"? I'm so confused, and I lived there for two years)
- saghm 10y agoWe also call those circular things in the roads "rotaries" (as opposed to "roundabouts" or "traffic circles"), and what what most of America calls Italian ice, we call "slush"
- acheron 10y agoRotaries and roundabouts are different, though I wouldn't be surprised that people refer to some of one by the other's name. http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/round/Differences_between_Modern_Roundabouts_and_Old_Traffic_Circles.pdf http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/round/Differences_...
- saghm 10y agoInteresting! I guess we only call half of the things by the wrong name in Boston instead of all of them then :)
- mishac 10y agoIn Montreal we call it General Tao's chicken. I have no idea why.
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