November 01, 2004

For Ted's project

Ted--I know your project is on General Tso and his chicken, but I thought it was interesting to find another American pseudo-chinese food product named after a famous Chinese general. I'm talking, of course, about a Heinz product: Mr. Yoshida's sauce! This is quoted from the synopsis of Chushingura:

"At the opening of the play shogun Takauiji has killed Yoshida, the famous general of the Minamoto clan, in battle"

There might be some top secret scheme to name all of these American-Chinese products after generals; maybe you could use that for your webpage. You could research by calling the people in Pittsburgh and asking them how they named the sauce. deep
~Alex

Posted by alex at November 1, 2004 11:10 AM
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