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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Ekaterine Xia

      It's really this whole thing about how what Americans call "Chinese food" was, for various socioeconomic reasons to do with immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, really just their word for what was later called "fast food"https://twitter.com/KatjeXia/status/1261502296774459392 …

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      Ekaterine Xia @KatjeXia
      For everyone who has ever said or thought "Chinese food is really delicious, but I get hungry really soon after and so it's kinda scammy/ this is a sign of Chinese crappiness at play"... I need y'all to realize that Chinese food is majority poverty-food, hence not sticking.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

      It's like the reductive take people in other countries have where they think literally the entirety of "American cuisine" is fast food chains, like the definition of "American" is McDonald's and KFC

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

      I saw a really revealing take one time saying that the post-Gold Rush collapse in San Francisco created this unique situation where there was a massively skewed gender ratio - gold miners were an enforced all-male community - and so feminized labor was put into the marketplace

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

      Men weren't actually willing or able to learn to do domestic "women's work" themselves, so it became something you paid for, and the men on the bottom of the racial caste system were Chinese immigrants

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

      And the stereotypical "Chinese" professions -- Chinese restaurants, Chinese laundries -- all came out of that Creating systems for men to go out of the house to get their cooking and cleaning done at the lowest possible price Then stigmatizing those systems as foreign and dirty

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          I mean look at this point "Chinese food" as imagined by Americans is its own tradition over a century old But it really obviously isn't like how wealthy people back in China ate, or even like how regular people (or poor people!) ate

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          It's how single poor dudes with no home training ate, who had little money or time to spend and who weren't looking to "dine" in a "restaurant" so much as stuff their faces and then go home as fast as they could, to get away from the dirty Chinamen

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Like we say the McDonald Brothers "invented fast food" but even back then what they actually phrased it as was *modernizing* fast food, making it "clean" and corporate

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          "Fast food" in general was always a thing -- hot dogs and hamburgers -- but it was that environment that turned it into this specific thriving industry And so like everyone just says "Chinese food" to mean deep fried chunks of meat sparsely mixed with rice

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          To, I think, an even greater degree than "Mexican food" got absorbed in the American imagination by Taco Bell, or "Italian food" by Pizza Hut and Chef Boyardee

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Now I'm just thinking about how COMRADE DETECTIVE plays with this, like it imagines that Cold War Romanians equated everything about America with McDonald's Every American character is literally constantly eating hamburgers

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Like they go to visit the American embassy and there's just this big table piled high with hamburgers and everyone in the office is eating hamburgers and they all grab a fresh one as they walk by mid-conversation Ugh it sounds like the Trump Administration

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          I guess I will say that I see people take this too far sometimes, saying "Oh egg rolls and fried rice and lo mein aren't real Chinese food, they don't exist in China" And that's obviously false, most of these menu items are at least based on something centuries old

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Like "instant" lo mein noodles (which became ramen noodles in Japan) are one of the oldest "instant" foods in the world, sold in marketplaces in the Song Dynasty But I mean hamburgers and fries were a thing before the McDonald Brothers too

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          That's the funny thing, like McDonald's *created* the negative reputation that stuck to the foods the McDonalds decided were the cheapest and easiest to turn into assembly-line manufacture Which is why the early McDonald's ads feel so weird now

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          The original Ronald McDonald could look right at the camera and say "A hamburger, French fries and a milkshake, the perfectly balanced lunch" partly because nutrition was a young science then and partly because no one particularly thought of those as trashy cheap foods yet

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Like it wasn't a big deal for Thomas Jefferson to introduce French fries to the White House and serve them with steak because it was just a new way to make potatoes (Nowadays you have to call them "steak fries" or "frites")

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 May 2020

          Now I'm thinking of that Onion article where a McDonald's executive tries to get them to change their whole menu because he thinks those foods are obsolete And he keeps insistently saying "hamburger sandwich" and "French fried potatoes"

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