I am not familiar with that, but your post got me looking and I found this. Some of it seems on topic, or at least what I think is the topic!
Now I’m wondering if there is a Lucky Peach thread.
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Did you not receive that “mom and dad are splitting up” email?
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Thought I was replying to BKeats! Ooops!
I’m ok with derivative as long as it is tasty!
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It could be worse. We could be talking about Taco Bell again!
But, with the chow mein, La Choy or otherwise, I just remember that one really, really long CH thread in which people endlessly debated which version was “correct” - crispy noodles (usually over rice) or soft wheat, stir fried with other ingredients. That was one to get the popcorn out for!
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Sounds vaguely familiar. I remember being sort of startled by a communication, but at the time, I didn’t have time for any “shenanigans”.
I found this; still in my email. 
I think, it went from a magazine to a newsletter for a minute.
A frequent quick meal is stir fried baby bok choy, mushrooms, scallions, and mung bean sprouts in a sauce of chicken broth thickened with cornstarch and flavored with black bean garlic paste over white rice or crispy noodles. Sprinkled with a little tamari. Maybe tomorrow. To make it more fun, sprinkle in some peanuts.
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That sounds very tasty!
It is and so darned easy.
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Now THAT is love. And good taste.
thank you. I am northern european “white” and I have ethnicity. English food has ethnicity. Every food has ethnicity. Every human has ethnicity. So when I read people asking for “ethnic” food, I know they mean not French, not “American”, not Irish pub, not Brit pub, not French, not Italian…they mean not “white”. In the US, Irish and Italians used to be considered “not white.”
Ethnic is the worst, I agree.
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Yids like me, also, too. Which is but one reason I keep my eyes narrowed about this.
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Im sure they do. Thank you for the instruction.
I’m still confused by this assertion. Mein means noodles.
Or do you mean you don’t consider the deep-fried crisps to be proper noodles? Maybe they are a close approximation for shelf-stable sale?
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Overhead in a high-end grocery store, “Oh look, they have fresh gnocchi”. Sitting on the shelf were bags of gnocchi! I held myself back from saying something as I know the store owner.
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I thought this came as part of a kit that had the noodles in a separate packet (disclosure - we never bought this. My mom had Stella Chan’s book in the 70s and the New York Times International cookbook, so that’s where any Chinese food we had at the time came from. I mean, she’d substitute pasta for wheat noodles, but, still…)?
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My memory’s a little hazy on this, but I’m pretty sure those cans of mushy vegetables came with a can of crunchy noodles. Like a little kit.
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Yep, this is what the company history above says.
You can see the seam underneath the cellophane wrap where the two cans meet.
