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I often wonder about General Tso - someone who was once a great military leader, but is now known for a dish of chicken.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang

If you were looking for a guy to suppress and crush rebellions, this was your man. As an aside, I would be very hesitant to call him General Chicken.

> suppress and crush rebellions

The general crushes radical Muslims, or in modern term, terrorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_Revolt_(1862%E2%80%9377...

Strangely, in Boston they call the dish "General Gau's Chicken". This never made sense to me.

Then again, Bostonians also have a weird taxonomy around milkshakes vs "frappes" (and also "malts"? I'm so confused, and I lived there for two years)

We also call those circular things in the roads "rotaries" (as opposed to "roundabouts" or "traffic circles"), and what what most of America calls Italian ice, we call "slush"

Rotaries and roundabouts are different, though I wouldn't be surprised that people refer to some of one by the other's name.

http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/round/Differences_...

Interesting! I guess we only call half of the things by the wrong name in Boston instead of all of them then :)

In Montreal we call it General Tao's chicken. I have no idea why.

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