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"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
by aidenn0 4y ago
"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado"
If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
- JimtheCoder 4y ago""California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado"" I read that quickly, ignored the "to food" component, and then imagined all Californians walking around with an avocado in their pocket at all times...
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- tropdrop 4y agoChange "pocket" to backpack and my word, am I guilty... I have an invented breakfast I call "Breakfast of Champions" – just some plain popcorn with avocado and fresh-cracked pepper. Bonus: if I have nutritional yeast on hand. Delicious, nutrious, vegan, gluten-free, high fiber, etc. If I have emergency avocado in my backpack I can make this happen just about anywhere I spend the night.
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- daveslash 4y agoCalifornian here. What, you don't have an avocado in your pocket at all times? Jokes aside, my wife pulled one out of her purse when we were out eating so she could add it to some food that was not already "Californian". You joke, but you're probably not far off....
- mc32 4y agoAccording to the Chef who was born in Japan, he says they add "California" to names of things as a stand-in for any place in north America because they recognize California but may not recognize Vancouver or Podunk Washington, etc.
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- Apocryphon 4y agoI would try a Podunk roll
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- nazgulsenpai 4y agoOur local Piggly Wiggly has a sushi chef at the deli counter. I'm pretty sure you could find it there.
- toast0 4y agoHope you like geoduck.
- nradov 4y agoGeoduck sushi is actually really good.
- viciousvoxel 4y agoit's my favorite pokemon
- nickhalfasleep 4y agoIf they called it a Vancouver roll, nobody could afford one.
- mikeweiss 4y agoI thought it just meant with lettuce tomato onion
- stephencoyner 4y agoExcept in the case of the California burrito which typically adds French fries [1] into the mix [1] https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/california-burrito/ https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/california-burrito/
- zumu 4y agoIn my experience a california burrito has french fries _and_ guac (avacado).
- stephencoyner 4y agoTrue as that is, when you ask for a cali burrito you’re really asking them to add fries. Not just guac
- jrochkind1 4y agoSomehow that is also French Tacos.
- aidenn0 4y agoI figured someone would bring that up. However in my version of reality the abomination known as a "California burrito" does not exist.
- nostrademons 4y agoWaiting for "California toast" to become the official food of Millennials...
- vxNsr 4y agoThat’s so funny because my wife will only eat the California roll but without avocado. She doesn’t like raw fish or avocado. So I will often order “the California roll, hold the avocado (and wasabi and ginger)”
- ghostpepper 4y agoso just rice and seaweed and imitation crab
- vxNsr 4y agoAnd cucumbers
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThere is a fast food chain in China based on Californian beef noodle soup. It isn’t exactly Pho, but no avocado to be seen.
- tamade 4y agoThey serve Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Obvious reasons why they opted for California branding instead.
- Melting_Harps 4y ago> They serve Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Obvious reasons why they opted for California branding instead. How depressingly very China of them, what are Hong Kong noodles called: 1 country 1 system illegally annexed under extreme violence and duress noodles?
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- seanmcdirmid 4y agoKeep in mind that this chain is > 20 years old (was there in 2002 when I studied at PKU). There is a lot of Taiwan food in the mainland these days that isn't labelled covertly.
- tamade 4y agoI was at PKU around that time too, ate at the shop in Haidian book city a couple times. Apparently they rebranded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Lee_(restaurant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Lee_(restaurant)
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- whalesalad 4y agoA California burrito means it has… French fries in it.
- shaklee3 4y agonot at all. California burrito just means with french fries, and that's one of the most common uses.
- pscsbs 4y agoThat's a San Diego Burrito. A San Franicsco (Mission) burrito, for example, does not have french fries but has Avocado/guacamole.
- tannedNerd 4y agoBut no place in the mission calls them California burritos. It’s just a burrito. Vs I have had California burritos in San Francisco that are called that because of the French fries.
- mattnewton 4y agoThis is Taqueria Zorro’s erasure and I will not stand for it :D
- shaklee3 4y agoit's not a San Diego burrito. it's never called that on any menu, and dozens of Mexican restaurants have "California burrito", which is fries. avocado is often not in them at all.
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- RajT88 4y agoUsed to be 100% true, but now there's legal weed in some states.
- hbarka 4y agoCalifornia patch - shoddy drywall patch technique. California stop - not quite full stop Slight hint of derision anytime CA is added, I would say.
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- vintermann 4y agoAnd "Hawaii" as a modifier to food generally means with pineapple, appropriate or not. Though, that makes me wonder what ingredient the other 48 states would add. Suggestions welcome.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> And "Hawaii" as a modifier to food generally means with pineapple I associate it more with meaning "with spam".
- badcppdev 4y agoThat's a version of the Hawaiian Pizza that might not be a subject of debate.
- hnbad 4y agoWhat's interesting to me is that there seem to be a number of "Hawaii" dishes (involving pineapple) that all seem to date back to roughly the same timeframe (1950s) but seem to have very different origin stories. For example, "Toast Hawaii" appeared in Germany in 1955, consisting of a slice of toasted white bread, one or two slices of cooked ham, a pineapple ring, a slice of processed cheese and a cocktail cherry, baked in an oven. Interestingly, I've read that that dish may be derived from an American "grilled spamwich" (but spam was not availble in Germany at the time). Likewise, "Steak Hawaii" (as well as "Schnitzel Hawaii") involves baking with pineapple rings and cheese. I'm guessing someone somewhere associated cheese and pineapple with Hawaii in the 1950s as part of the general obsession with Hawaiian-inspired culture (e.g. tiki torches, fake lei garlands, ukuleles and luau-themed garden parties) and it caught on as an "exotic" twist on home cooking internationally (despite Hawaii and pineapples otherwise having no clear relation).
- jamincan 4y agoI think Hawaii was historically the largest producer of pineapple in the US, which may explain the association.
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- _yb2s 4y agoUnless it’s a dish that would already often have avocado, e.g. a California burrito is a burrito with French fries.