Tuesday, September 23, 2008

You know you’re from Boston if…

So we were in a writer’s room the other day. We pitched a joke about General Gao's Chicken. Everyone laughed, but then one of the other writers says:

“Isn’t it General Tso’s chicken?”

To which the other writers agreed, but we dug on our heels: our whole life, it’s always been General Gao.

And then one of the writer’s directed our attention to this

1 Comments:

At 9:11 PM, Blogger Hero to the Masses said...

Yeah, in NYC it's General Tso. I thought that perhaps Boston elevated some Chinese corporal to the rank of General by mistake.

This poor bastard served with distinction in China's longest Civil War and now he's known by a bunch of rubes and roundeyes as the only "Oriental" dish they'll eat.

Oh the Humanity.

 

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