You may just be too young. In the 50s and maybe before, a lot of people bought canned Chinese food because it was the only way they could get Chinese food. Goes along with frozen bagels in the rural Midwest when I first got there in the mid-60s, eaten along with the "matzoh crackers" my farmboy freshman roommate liked.
In any case, if you open a can of Chinese food, don't eat it all, and put the rest of it back in the fridge -- or very old term 'ice box" -- in the morning, you'll find a can of leftover Moo Goo Gai Pan. Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes. Just a little J. B. Priestley time travel.
Which brings us to the intentional pun from "Baker Street" -- "The stately Holmes of England is no more." Right up there with the as intentional, "Come and put on your burnoose, Bernice," that Steve crooned to Edie. |
