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   Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:25:57 JST Thanasis Kinias

   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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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:25:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @tkinias Singapore noodles are from Hong Kong

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     Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 07:25:56 JST Thanasis Kinias

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

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 08:47:11 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @tkinias definitely much closer and most content 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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     Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 08:47:12 JST Thanasis Kinias

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     • Adrianna Tan

     @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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     Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 08:47:12 JST Thanasis Kinias

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     • Adrianna Tan

     @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)