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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 22:08

It kinda does my head in that Midwestern State University is, in fact, in Texas.

It’s even more confusing that the university is in a town called Wichita Falls.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 22:22

Next up: We open a University of Saxony in rural Bavaria.

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Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-11-23 at 22:25

@tkinias Singapore noodles are from Hong Kong

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 23:03

@skinnylatte

well on that front, many things aren’t from where their names imply—a favorite for me is “gobi Manchurian” which has AFAICT no connection with Manchuria whatsoever.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 23:14

@skinnylatte

but Singapore noodles is a wild one, because the mix of flavors in it actually feels like something that could plausibly have come out of the cultural mixing in Singapore (at least from an outsider’s perspective)

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Written by Adrianna Tan on 2024-11-23 at 23:36

@tkinias definitely much closer and most constant cultural mixing between Singapore and Hong Kong through history, use of spices not utterly unknown

vs longer cultural distance for the Hakka Chinese food that moved to Kolkata then evolved probably over a period of time into a new cuisine with its own dishes

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