This dish is a postmodernchop suey, a tasty dish with multiple meanings, given the complex reason for naming it after General Tso (Zuo), the hero of a Qing Dynasty civil war that took the lives of at least 20 million people.
Chef Peng Chang-kuei, General Tso’s Chicken Inventor, died last week at 98; he served as a Kuomintang banquet chef before bringing a sweet and sour chicken dish to the US.
Donald Trump or his puppet masters are attempting to destabilize the PRC via contacting Taiwan (Thanks, Bob Dole) while concurrently preparing to deregulate US industries including the food supply. Trump is now playing (with) eponymous chicken as he provokes both the PRC and Taiwan versions of their respective “one China policy”.
And the chicken dish in question was prepared for a key figure in the MIC Revolt of the Admirals, the US civilian-military dispute over the joint force elements of the 1950s nuclear deterrent, during a time when the Korean War was being fought with conventional arms. We are still living through the same strategic doctrines of projecting power around the world and seemingly playing the same chicken games.
Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson’s idea of an executive was someone who gave orders, and those orders were to be carried out immediately and without question. When the naval officers had the audacity to question his decisions on weapons and strategy (Such as the cancellation of the super carrier USS United States), he took that as a sign of unparalleled insubordination. When unsupported attacks appeared against his character, he wanted those responsible to be severely punished. This could explain the animosity he felt for the Navy at the time of the admiral’s revolt.
Proponents of the Air Force doctrine saw the Korean War as an anomalous event, the demands of which were not relevant to dealing with the very real strategic nuclear threat from the Soviet Union.
Ultimately Soviet aggression never materialized thru a massive nuclear attack and this can be attributed, in whole during the decade of the 1950s, to the existence of the US Air Force’s and NATO’s strategic bomber forces.
The weirdness of the current PEOTUS snafu in China is that whoever is giving the Orange Sauced Gasbag the advice, is re-litigating the Cold War in the same region that gives us General Tso’s Chicken with the possibility that similar millions of people could die, primarily because of the ex-generals who might populate the Trump Cabinet.
What has now become weird is the delusional discourse (Pizzeria-gate(sic)) created in the RWNJ subculture that now seems to have kept the Trumpist hoards motivated. That meme was iterated by MSM or at least some agenda setters and gatekeepers. So the Trumpian chickening has intersected generations, cuisines, and paranoia.
Zuo Zongtang (also romanised as Tso Tsung-t’ang; [tswɔ̀ tsʊ́ŋtʰɑ̌ŋ]; 10 November 1812 – 5 September 1885), sometimes referred to as General Tso, was a Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty.[1]
This mouthwateringly entertaining film travels the globe to unravel a captivating culinary mystery. General Tso’s chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country.
But just who was General Tso? And how did his chicken become emblematic of an entire national cuisine?
Director Ian Cheney (King Corn, The City Dark) journeys from Shanghai to New York to the American Midwest and beyond to uncover the origins of this iconic dish, turning up surprising revelations and a host of humorous characters along the way. Told with the verve of a good detective story, The Search for General Tso is as much about food as it is a tale of the American immigrant experience. A Sundance Selects release from IFC Films.
Li Yonghui, the head of the school of international relations at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, said Trump was “testing the water” with China before taking office next month.
“It fits with the logic of a businessman. But on this issue, he has really gone off in the wrong direction. If he doesn’t understand the nature of the Taiwan issue then sooner or later he will. Taiwan is not like other issues … China will not compromise on the Taiwan issue.
Orville Schell said it was hard to predict how Beijing might respond to Trump’s latest gambit.
“I don’t know what Beijing is going to make of this because they have always dealt with these very square, proper people like Obama and Hillary Clinton who have always sought to keep the US policy relatively constant. And here you have someone who is doing the absolute opposite,” he said.
“I think they will be very careful about responding because in a certain sense they are meeting a brinksman just like themselves … [and] I don’t know what a brinksman or a bully does when they meet another brinksman and a bully. [Violence] would be one option, but very often one of them backs down.”
Fake news and the stupid, media illiterate, deplorables… believing any damn thing on the intrawebz and apparently like like Birthers, Truthers, and Deniers, there’s an entire RWNJ fantasy iconology of what they think is sexual perversion in the Democratic party Is this like the Grindr stuff at CPAC? ZOMG! Sin iz everywhere!
apparently the CIA is really the Culinary Institute of America or even the California Institute for the Arts
found on a site that states “____ is a white privilege zone and you must become white to have a voice.” so meta — and yet unintelligible and where apparently these idiots think “cheese” = “little girl” among other codesbut generally these sad, fevered men give the impression that they listen to Laura Ingraham … a lot“…. shows how liberalism is an expression of the interests and outlook of commercial and managerial elites, who are suspicious of less rationalized and controllable forms of social organization like the family.”
In Austin, Texas, according to the Austin American-Statesman, the East Side Pies mini-chain has been the subject of online and phone harassment (and one incident of IRL vandalism) by individuals who have “interpreted the restaurant’s logo as a symbol of the ‘illuminati,’ questioned the meaning of photos of pizza-eating children on East Side Pies’ Facebook account, inferred that a picture of staffers with former Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell was proof of nefarious political ties and claimed co-owner Michael Freid, an alumnus of the Culinary Institute of America, had ‘connections to the CIA.’ “
The pizza effect is a term used especially in religious studies and sociology for the phenomenon of elements of a nation or people’s culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-imported back to their culture of origin,[1] or the way in which a community’s self-understanding is influenced by (or imposed by, or imported from) foreign sources.[2]
Q: Heard about the new German-Chinese restaurant?A: The food is great, but an hour later, you’re hungry for power. jokes4us.com/…
It is named after the idea that modern pizza was developed among Italian immigrantsin the United States (rather than in native Italy, where in its simpler form it was originally looked down upon), and was later exported back to Italy to be interpreted as a delicacy in Italian cuisine.
Related phrases include “hermeneutical feedback loop”, “re-enculturation”, and “self-orientalization”. The term “pizza effect” was coined by the Hindumonk and professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, Agehananda Bharati[2][3][4] in 1970.[5]
Teppanyaki, a Western-influenced style created in Japan, popular in the U.S. thank Jeebus there’s no Chinese pizza, or is there …
For starters, just four Chinese processing plants will be allowed to export cooked chicken products to the U.S., as first reported by Politico. The plants in question passed USDA inspection in March. Initially, these processors will only be allowed to export chicken products made from birds that were raised in the U.S. and Canada. Because of that, the poultry processors won’t be required to have a USDA inspector on site, as The New York Timesnotes, adding:
“And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants.”
That’s a pretty disturbing thought for anyone who’s followed the slew of stories regarding food safety failures in China in recent years. As we’ve previously reported on The Salt, this year alone, thousands of dead pigs turned up in the waters of Shanghai, rat meat was passed off as mutton and — perhaps most disconcerting for U.S. consumers — there was an outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu virus among live fowl in fresh meat markets…
The USDA’s decision comes with a backdrop of long-running trade disputes over meat between the U.S. and China.
In a nutshell: China banned U.S. beef exports in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease turned up in a Washington state cow. Then, when the bird flu virus broke out widely among Asian bird flocks in 2004, the U.S. blocked imports of Chinese poultry. China challenged that decision in front of the World Trade Organization, which ruled in China’s favor in 2010.
“But the Chinese are different: you don’t need any evidence to chuck accusations of cheating at them. Sinophobia is the one form of racism which remains socially acceptable.As everyone knows, China just nicks our ideas and sells them back to us at half the price, thanks to the coolies who must work 18 hours a day and are apt to disappear if they complain. China has an appalling human rights record, but some of the sinister practices attributed to it go on in every western country”
It was fascinating to actually look at one of the RWNJ websites to prepare the above discourse, since I had to go to one to figure out the pizza problem but also found what “cuck” as derived from cuckold connotes for RWNJ.
so youâÂÂre OK with image of Trump twerking the world but the word âÂÂc**kâ (from cuckold) would be a problem for your employees
This discourse I ignored during the campaign regarding evil pizzerias but apparently Trumpite sexual appetites are more pedestrian and repressed which accounts for its origin as well as its proliferation as “fake news”.
The choice of Comet Ping-Pong probably goes back to some CPAC hanky-panky among LogCabin-GOPrideans, since it seems like many terms come from gay conservative males. Or maybe it’s just another millennial RWNJ feeding-frenzy.
But isn’t it like RWNJ desire to prefer fast food that “makes after an hour, one hungry for power again”.
Apparently, every president since Harry Truman got it wrong. It seems that his theory is that we don’t need to oppose the Communists, we will just make a compromising deal, hopefully one the benefits us enough to warrant the risk. Perhaps he wants to economically rule the world rather than our past practice of diplomatically ruling the (chicken) roost.
Something is going to have to change. I don’t know what it will be, but the process may be both ugly and messy. The image of pitchforks and torches will not look like the images from old horror movies. They will be much more 21st Century. I have images of disgruntled and angry citizens borrowing tactics from the Taliban and Isis more than from traditional protests. When you corner someone, or a group, to the point they have nothing to lose, the rules of engagement change. Ask the Kamikaze pilots or suicide bombers.
T****p owns properties around the world, proudly displaying his name. Frankly, you could not pay me enough to stay in one of those hotels or resorts. The risk to life and limb is simply too great. The Secret Service and other security agencies can’t be everywhere, especially in places where ingress and egress is marginally controlled at best.
If you want a bloody example, look at our embassies that have been destroyed. Or for that matter, the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It is going to start as soon as the republican party begins to implement the coup to overthrow the US government they started in the 1930s. That singular attempt was derailed by General Smedley Butler, but they never forgot their long range goals.
Personally, I am of an age where I no longer give a shit about myself. However, I want to protect our country for the sake of my grandchildren and their children. The True Believers can take that and interpret it any way they wish.
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Apparently, every president since Harry Truman got it wrong. It seems that his theory is that we don’t need to oppose the Communists, we will just make a compromising deal, hopefully one the benefits us enough to warrant the risk. Perhaps he wants to economically rule the world rather than our past practice of diplomatically ruling the (chicken) roost.
Something is going to have to change. I don’t know what it will be, but the process may be both ugly and messy. The image of pitchforks and torches will not look like the images from old horror movies. They will be much more 21st Century. I have images of disgruntled and angry citizens borrowing tactics from the Taliban and Isis more than from traditional protests. When you corner someone, or a group, to the point they have nothing to lose, the rules of engagement change. Ask the Kamikaze pilots or suicide bombers.
T****p owns properties around the world, proudly displaying his name. Frankly, you could not pay me enough to stay in one of those hotels or resorts. The risk to life and limb is simply too great. The Secret Service and other security agencies can’t be everywhere, especially in places where ingress and egress is marginally controlled at best.
If you want a bloody example, look at our embassies that have been destroyed. Or for that matter, the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It is going to start as soon as the republican party begins to implement the coup to overthrow the US government they started in the 1930s. That singular attempt was derailed by General Smedley Butler, but they never forgot their long range goals.
Personally, I am of an age where I no longer give a shit about myself. However, I want to protect our country for the sake of my grandchildren and their children. The True Believers can take that and interpret it any way they wish.
People with no voice tend to stop talking.