He ordered a chop suey.

He ordered a chop suey.

So, why why and where did chop suey come from?

Now, who came up with the idea of chop suey?

And we want to say to Idris, Chop him up.

And we chop those strands into what are called pellets.

And then one thing they have things like risotto chop suey.

What happens to matter if you chop it up very fine?

I like to say chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

A Chinese guy named Lem Sen shows up in Chinatown, New York City, and says, I want you guys all to stop making chop suey, because I am the original creator and sole proprietor of the dish known as chop suey.

He said, I can chop your head off right away and bring you back to life.

Meanwhile, back at TED University, this wonderful woman is teaching you how to chop Sun Chips.

So, in a way, because the Chinese were attacked, chop suey was created as a defense mechanism.

And as this article points out, The average native of any city in China knows nothing of chop suey.

So it took about 30 years before the Americans realized that, whoa, chop suey is actually not known in China.

Places where 102 year olds still ride their bike to work, chop wood, and can beat a guy 60 years younger than them.

But, one of the problems with planting trees is that the people in these regions are so poor that they chop them down for firewood.

And according to New York Times, in 1904, there was an outbreak of Chinese restaurants all over town, and the city has gone 'chop suey' mad.

There was a woodcutter who's about to take his ax and chop a piece of wood, and the whole galaxy is one atom of that ax.

But the granddaddy of all the Chinese American dishes we probably ought to talk about is chop suey, which was introduced around the turn of the 20th century.

Now I've come and found him, and I want my recipe back and I want everyone to stop making chop suey, or pay me for the right to do the same.

Actually I wanted to be a damsel in a tower guarded by seven dragons, and then a prince on a white horse would chop off the dragons' heads and liberate me.

Mr. Coe's last book, Chop Suey, was about Chinese cuisine in America, while Ms. Ziegelman told the story of life in a Lower East Side tenement through food in her book 97 Orchard.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

So if we could chop that away and give the building a small bottom, we could take that bit and put it at the top where the greater commercial value is for a property developer.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

But, you know, it's very easy to overlook the smaller characters oops for example, like Lem Sen, who introduced chop suey, Chef Peng, who introduced General Tso Chicken, and all the Japanese bakers who introduced fortune cookies.

You know, back then it was a way to show that you were sophisticated and cosmopolitan if you were a guy and you wanted to impress a girl, you could take her out on a chop suey date.

It's how you remix. You take existing songs, you chop them up, you transform the pieces, you combine them back together again, and you've got a new song, but that new song is clearly comprised of old songs.

So, these people are going around China asking for chop suey, which is sort of like a Japanese guy coming here and saying, I understand you have a very popular dish in your country called leftovers, and it is particularly right?

In the film, Sometimes in April by Raoul Peck, Idris Elba is poised in a scene with his machete raised, and he's being forced by a crowd to chop up his best friend fellow Rwandan Army officer, albeit a Tutsi played by Fraser James.

And if you think about it, a lot of the foods that you think of or we think of or Americans think of as Chinese food are barely recognizable to Chinese, for example beef with broccoli, egg rolls, General Tso's Chicken, fortune cookies, chop suey, the take out boxes.

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies he shall flee to one of these cities and live

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies he shall flee to one of these cities and live

Economists have long studied the economics of superstars in fields where a company can lever enormously the decisions of a small number of individuals, making them valuable in a way that someone who can, say, chop down trees like the legendary Paul Bunyan, is not. But the political economy of what levels of income differences countries will tolerate remains uncharted territory.

There was an egg, a tomato, a head of lettuce and a pumpkin, and they all lived in this refrigerator city, and in one of their adventures they went to a haunted house that was filled with so many dangers like an evil blender who tried to chop them up, an evil toaster who tried to kidnap the bread couple, and an evil microwave who tried to melt their friend who was a stick of butter.

But what we have to recognize now is that we are reaching the ecological limits that our planet can bear, and when we chop down forests, as we are every day, to grow more and more food, when we extract water from depleting water reserves, when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think about what we can start saving.