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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except it’s more generally accepted that it’s from New York, and not San Fran.

  Where did you ever find information tracing it to San fransisco?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t remember, I just remembered reading that both of those were made by some Chinese immigrant that started a “Chinese food” shop in San Francisco, some time in the 1930s or so. Seemed believable since there were a lot of Chinese immigrants in California as early as the 1850s cause of the railroad

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    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fortune cookies were originally Japanese, but when the Japanese were sent to the internment camps, the Chinese opportunistically began serving them in their restaurants on the West Coast

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    • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wonder if you were thinking of chop suey, which has one of its origin stories being from San Francisco?

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No. Chop Suey was invented when someone grabbed a brush and put a little makeup.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That seems possible

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah…that Chinese immigrant started it in New York city, though. Not San fransisco.

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