Question about Chinese food

[LSLGuy]

@China_Guy

… And it was telling they never ate the menu items themselves. …

Yes. Watching what the staff made and ate themselves was always part of the fun of going to the better sort of Chinese (or other) ethnic restaurant. It always seemed to me that of the various “Americanized” cuisines, the Chinese is the one that was most thoroughly bastardized.

@Gatopescado

@bordelond

That bolded line absolutely has to be a joke based on Minnesota’s “hotdish” , right?

Thanks to Rule 34, ‘Hotdish’ sends me off into another plane of thought. Damn Internet!

See here and many of the next 60-ish posts below for a good discussion of hotdish:

Regional expressions you didn't always realize were not widespread

Up North and Duck Duck Grey Duck (a FAR superior game) have been mentioned as Minnesotaisms (we are also a pop not soda state, though I think that’s changing) but I didn’t see “hotdish” What the rest of the country calls a casserole, we call a hotdish, and its an art form. (The dish you bake it in is often called a casserole, but what you bake is a hotdish) Tater tot hotdish is the epitome of Minnesota food.