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On Jan 7, 7:41*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:49:50 -0800 (PST), aem wrote:
> > On Monday, January 7, 2013 4:28:59 PM UTC-8, ViLco wrote:

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> >> Now I know what RFC needs: a chinese who wil get all upset because of

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> >> people posting "chinese" recipes which aren't real chinese.

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> >> How comes that not even one in a billion and 3 hundred millions ever

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> >> kicked in here?

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> > You didn't get an indignant response because the recipe you
> > described and the pictures you posted were in fact a Chinese dish.
> > Nothing is more Chinese than to take what's on hand (like your
> > prosciutto) and maake fried rice out of it. *That's the same all
> > over the U.S. and in northern Italy.

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> Prosciutto is actually a very good substitute for Yunnan or Jinhua
> dry-cured ham. *Which is very common in fried rice in China.
>


But Vilco said prosciutto cotto, which is just plain old ham.