Sorry, what? Err, yes, of course it is… i mean, its not quite chicken nuggets in the fast food sense, its cut pieces of chicken breast fried in batter and tossed in sauce as opposed to mashed up and reformed chicken anythings battered and tossed in sauce so its a little higer quality.
Forgive me, but it’s like saying a snickers is just a mars bar but with nuts in.
Or fries are just potato strips cooked in oil.
But yeah.
Most things are things
If you work in a decent restaurant, the sweet and sour chicken is the light meat. We used dark meat for General Tso’s, Orange Chicken, and Sesame Chicken. It tastes better.
I think light chicken meat tastes better than dark, hands down, always. I always thought dark meat was used because it’s cheaper, or because they have to use it in something to get rid of it. I never knew it was because it was a traditional recipe thing - TIL, thanks!
Edit pound for pound, dark meat is less expensive than light, so cost may still be a factor, but it means I can still hope to find a place that makes a more luxurious General Tso’s, etc, with white. Still, lucky for you that you prefer the cheaper stuff! It’s like, I still prefer Taco Bell to fancy restaurants that make tacos with surloin slices or some crap - just give me ground beef, for christsakes.
Do you realise you can make chicken nuggets out of actual chicken?
Think of them as mini schnitzel chunks, they are amazing.
They were a staple of our household growing up, and it’s what I think of when someone says “chicken nuggets”
100%, but the context was around overly processed chicken made of “beaks and arseholes” as my mum used to say.
Also, generally speaking, chicken nuggets are low quality reformed chicken. I appreciate that anecdotally your experience is different. I wish i had grown up eating those nuggets as they sound excellent. However, for the majority, I’m certain that it’s the shit nuggets most people were brought up on.
Or fries are just potato strips cooked in oil.
well, yeah? what’s wrong with saying that? this is not the same point you’re making about chicken breast vs chicken mash
The point about the chicken mash is not the main point. Merely an observation about the caveat in my main point that the statement about orange chicken being orange and chicken is essentially just listing ingreadients.
Like saying cake is just flour eggs butter and sugar.
Yeah. Orange chicken is just orange sauce and chicken nuggets. Of course it is.
A sandwich is just a flat hot dog
No that’s baloney.
slow clap
No its not. A hotdog covers a sausage from 3 sides. A sandwich only from 2. Have you never heard of the cube rule?
Cereal is a cold soup
If my hotdog bun splits, does it cease being a hotdog and become a sandwich?
Yes
No, it becomes a giraffe.
A lot of sub places don’t cut the bread all the way through, so their sandwiches have bread on 3 sides
Back in the day, Subway V-cut their bread and wasn’t total shit.
We’ve had a ton of debates in my object oriented programming classes about the cube rule of food. Representing it using classes and inheritance with varying food types can be fun:
So a hot-dog is a taco? is a burrito sushi? beans and rice a salad? Beef wellington a calzone?
I think to be organized you’d pick one cuisine as a base object. So if a hotdog is a taco, then beef wellington is a burrito (bread on all sides) as is a calzone.
I’m sorry but I don’t follow. I’m mostly taking a piss at the idea that there could be a computational identification system.
My idea is you pick one ethnic style as the base and use the cube bread rule to classify every food under that one ethnic base class. So if you start with the idea that a hotdog is a taco, you’d make Mexican your base ethnic cuisine and classify all other foods into a type of Mexican food.
Hot dogs as sandwiches are no different than a sub or hogie. They are sandwiches.
Toast is just bread that has been toasted.
Salad is just pieces of lettuce tossed in sauce
Boneless wings
Fruit-flavored boneless wings. Pretty sure sweet and sour is just cherry-flavored boneless wings too
Orange chicken is made from orange and chicken? Big if true
I have an orange. I have a chicken. Ungh. Orange chicken.
Thanks for unlocking that memory, gofsckyourself
Obviously I know what you meant to say, but I spent about 2 seconds wondering why someone would tell someone else to go filesystem check themselves.
Apparently my thought having machine is running slow today.
You better filesystem check yourself before you filesystem wreck yourself
Eh, if you get really good chicken nuggets, yeah. You can find non-fastfood nuggets that are cut up thigh or breast.
But yeah, most of the Chinese-American restaurant chicken whatever is a fried piece of chicken in a sauce. Orange, sesame, tsos, they’re all essentially the same thing in different sauce. Obviously, there’s some variation in that, but it holds true in general
Yeah, and it’s awesome! Same with Lemon Chicken. I want to experiment with a peach sauce.
Wendy’s tested this concept I guess about a decade ago. The commercial ran check out Wendy’s new Asian creations. I looked at the wife we both said f*** yeah and headed right over.
In the promo material in store it looked like hand breaded pieces of chicken lightly covered in a thick sauce. It was like general tso’s and orange chicken had a baby. And then we ordered and it was six of their tiny little crappy frozen chicken nuggets barely tossed in a little bit of a nugget sauce. I never went back to Wendy’s.
If you really want to blow your mind, look up the ad campaign when they introduced Chicken Nuggets in the 1980s. It was very much inspired by tempura fried chicken, so nuggets are literally the fast food version of the kind of chicken underneath the orange chicken sauce.
I mean, gong-bao chicken is also just diced chicken tossed in sauce, and san-bei chicken is, too. Beef Wellington is just half-ass cooked beef in pie crust.
Unless you go to basically a non franchise, non chain, actual asian/chinese restaurant/take out place… yeah basically if you dont do that, you are getting pretty much reconstituted chicken puree doused in… not really even real orange chicken sauce.
As with much modern food in America… its got waaaay more sugar and is missing other vital parts of the original way of making it.
Real orange chicken from a real chinese place tastes significantly different, and varies from place to place if they actually make the sauce on site. Usually a different medley of spices and oils… way more flavorful than extremely sweet orangeness.
Orange chicken is not a traditional food in China. It was invented in the USA at chinese take out restaurants using locally available ingredients.
I thought this too, especially after I lived in China for years, but I just went to Southern China and tangerine chicken is a traditional food used for celebrations.
Even if you don’t eat it, since it’s sweet, it’s like a traditional celebratory good luck food to always have with your feasts at weddings or promotion dinners or family get-togethers.
First time I ever saw orange chicken in China, but apparently it is a traditional food down south, as far back as anyone I talked to remembers, and it’s important to note that in the south, every spring festival every family and business buys a tangerine or clementine tree like a Christmas tree, so likely not an original Hawaiian creation in 1987 or whatever that cook says it was.
Maybe he independently created it, but it doesn’t look like he originally created it.
Thank you, that’s awesome
High five.
When I was riding through the city I was in, there were multiple commercial rows like 100 deep and a thousand wide of clementine and tangerine trees, it was pretty cool.
Maybe the Chinese orange chicken is actually made from clementines and not tangerines, because I remember there being a lot more clementine trees
No, it isn’t a traditional Chinese recipe, but many American Chinese restaurants have figured out a way to do an analog of it as I described, due to many Americans now expecting it as a basic staple of ‘Chinese food’.
Thats not true. Ancient Chinese secret is Orange Chicken
It’s pretty easy to make at home too. I make vegan orange chicken often.
Edit: the downvotes you get the minute you mention the “v-word” are hilarious. Some of you people are so touchy about a stranger on the internet just having a nice time and eating whatever food he wants to, god damn.
Is it the chickens that are vegan?
No, in that case, it would be orange vegan chicken. The oranges are vegans.
It is the chicken that’s vegan, yes.
But insects are a natural part of a chicken’s diet.
These beyond chickens eat beyond insects
Cauliflower or some kind of texturized vegetable protein?
I usually buy the gardein nuggets as they have a really good texture for it. You can use the big TVP chunks. If you do, you should hydrate it in stock with a splash of vinegar, press the moisture out, sautee in lots of fat until a good sear develops, and then coat in breadcrumbs or corn-starch and fry.
I’ll do tofu as well. You have to buy good tofu though, not that mealy garbage in the plastic container full of water.
Fried cauliflower is delicious, but devoid of protein, so I never use it here as I don’t want to be hungry in an hour.
standard white gravy is just butter, flour, and a lot of milk, that somehow turns from liquid into a paste as you stir and heat it.
Gotta have bacon grease to be good.
