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Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets by JoeAltmaier on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:45AM (#38567846)
Wha?

Then General Cho's Chicken is American, because it's very popular in Iowa. Including amongst our ethnically-whitebread people.

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Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets by showerst on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:33AM (#38569464)
Ironically you picked one of the American-Chinese food dishes that is, effectively, American.

There's a fantastic documentary about it (and the Chinese food complex in American in general) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Search_for_General_Tso

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Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets by JoeAltmaier on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:53PM (#38571909)
Hm. I thought it was one of the dishes mandated in China, to replace the old decadent menus with party-acceptable simple-ingredient menu item?

Anyway, point taken.

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