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| | [[Image:Tao_Chicken.PNG|thumb|right|220px|"It's the ghost of General Tso!"]] | | [[Image:Tao_Chicken.PNG|thumb|right|220px|"It's the ghost of General Tso!"]] |
| | [[Image:ryans.png|thumb|"It's time for tasteball!"]] | | [[Image:ryans.png|thumb|"It's time for tasteball!"]] |
| - | '''{{wp|General Tso's Chicken}}''' is a [[chicken]] dish that is often served in {{w|American Chinese cuisine|American Chinese restaurants}}. It is named after the 19th century Chinese military leader {{w|Zuo Zongtang}} (formerly rendered as Tso Tsung-t'ang), but he neither invented it nor ever ate it. The proper pronunciation would therefore roughly be "Tswo", but many variations exist, such as "Tao", which [[Strong Bad]] uses. The meal appears popular in [[Free Country, USA]] and is typically seen in a take-out box. | + | '''General Tso's Chicken''' (pronounced General Tao) was first seen in the email [[ghosts]], when [[Strong Bad]] and [[The Cheat]] searched for ghosts in [[Strong Badia]] and found a rotten carton of Chinese food discarded by The Cheat. They thought it was haunted, but it turned out it was just grody and rotten. Later, it appeared as an obstacle to avoid in the [[Awexome Cross]] game. It then turned up as one of the [[Mount RidesPlace USA Mascots]], played by [[Homsar]]. |
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| - | The dish was first referenced in the [[Original Games Menu]], spelled as "General ''Tsu's'' chicken". The [[Second Games Menu]] expanded the reference to "the master himself, General Tso. Or is it General Tsu? Or wait. General Tao?" The spelling of "Tsu", and reference to the "old master", are probably a result of mixing up Zuo Zongtang with the much more ancient Chinese military leader {{w|Sun Tzu}}, generally considered author of the famous book of military strategy ''{{w|The Art of War}}''.
| + | General Tso's Chicken is [[Wikipedia:General Tso's chicken|a real-world chicken dish]] that is staggeringly popular in today's American Chinese restaurants. |
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| - | General Tso's Chicken is most often seen in [[Strong Badia]]. It first appeared in the email [[ghosts]], discovered by Strong Bad and [[The Cheat]] as they searched for ghosts. The [[green fumes]] it emitted were simply because it was grody and rotten, not haunted as they hoped. Later, it appeared among the obstacles in the game [[Awexome Cross]]. It then turned up as one of the [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Mount RidesPlace USA Mascots]], named "[[Ryan Sterritt|Ryan S.]]" and played by [[Homsar]]. General Tso's Chicken is one of [[Strong Badia's Seven Elemental Spirits]] along with snake seen on the national flag, the [[Painting of a Guy with a Big Knife]], [[Bear holding a Shark|the Fish Wearing a Fro Wig, and the British Distance Runner]]. | + | |
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| - | [[Bubs]] grinds a whole box of General Tso's Chicken (among other things) into a sausage casing in [[One Two, One Two]].
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| - | A Chinese chicken dish appeared in [[big white face]] as one of the many items that can be topped upon [[The Poopsmith]]'s cake by clicking on it. It is unclear as to whether this is General Tso's chicken or a different variety.
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| - | A similar take-out box appears in [[Dangeresque Roomisode 1]], albeit printed with a different design (a "Dragon Man") on the front.
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| | + | General Tso's Chicken is one of [[Strong Badia's Seven Elemental Spirits]] along with snake seen on the national flag, the [[Painting of a guy with a big knife]], and the [[Bear-Shark]], a combination of two. |
| | ==Appearances== | | ==Appearances== |
| | * '''Debut:''' [[Original Games Menu]] (Description of [[Fortune Cookies]]) | | * '''Debut:''' [[Original Games Menu]] (Description of [[Fortune Cookies]]) |
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| | *Email [[ghosts]] | | *Email [[ghosts]] |
| | *[[Awexome Cross]] | | *[[Awexome Cross]] |
| | + | *Email [[big white face]] (Easter egg) |
| | *Email [[theme park]] | | *Email [[theme park]] |
| | *Email [[myths & legends]] | | *Email [[myths & legends]] |
| - | *[[One Two, One Two]]
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| - | ==See Also==
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| - | *[[Chicken]]
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| - | [[Category:Food and drinks]] | + | [[Category:Food and drinks]][[Category:Mascots]][[Category:Strong Badia]] |
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| - | [[Category:Pseudocharacters]]
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