General Tso

Someone was grabbing a package of General Tso chicken at the deli and turnedd to me asking rhetorically "Who was General Tso, anyway?"

"General Tso was a really interesting person," I replied. He was a peasant that joined the Chinese Red Army in 1937 as a private and shortly after enlistment his culinary talents were discovered and he was made a cook and shortly thereafter became a mess sergeant." 

"His talents in the culinaary arts and the logistics got him a commission and he was shortly thereafter promoted to colonel and then under orders of Mao Zedong was promoted to general and placed in charge of feeding the entire Chinese Army."

He created his famous chicken recipe in 1945 because immediately after the war there was a large number of American GIs in China and he thought there would be a market for the recipe he created. It was brought to the States by returning GIs."

"Huh," he replied. "I never heard of that."

I refrained from saying "Neither did I. I just pulled it out of my ass."

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