Default User wrote:
> Kate Connally wrote:
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>> I got some takeout Chinese food this week. There were
>> the usual packets of soy sauce and some sweet sauce
>> and mustard.
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>> I have never once in my entire life added extra soy
>> sauce to my Chinese, or any other Asian, food! And
>> I can't imagine anyone else actually doing so. No
>> one I know does it either. I've never seen anyone
>> actually use the soy sauce packets.
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> We get Chinese food each Thursday. I got the Cashew Chicken one time.
> It was rather odd. It was essentially fried chicken nuggets, with a
> sort of thick chicken gravy and cashews. Not very "Chinesy" at all. I
> did add a couple of packets of soy sauce that time.
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> Brian
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I had a similar experience. I was working in an unfamiliar area and
wanted a quick lunch and basically was served chicken nuggets with big
box industrial pink sweet goo sauce.

I'am really starting to believe that some of the Chinese places look at
the applebees menu and try to copy it.