"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
I thought it just meant with lettuce tomato onion
The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
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Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#22Food with placenames often are misleading and not from the placename that makes up the dish: french fries, hamburger, german chocolate cake, danish, wiener, etc. add california roll to that list. [and how could I forget Hawaiian pizza? as noted in sibling comment] Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada.
Where I live we have "American breakfast." It's fried rice with ketchup in it, some little hotdogs and a fried egg. Cursed.
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada. According to wikipedia he moved to Canada in 1971 at age 21. It calls him Japanese-Canadian. I'd wager he's become a Canadian citizen by now, though I can't be bothered to research it. Do you have evidence that is he not Canadian?
At the time of his invention, back in '71, I'd say he was pretty Japanese. Today he's likely Canadianized. So the spirit of the invention is Japanese, rather than Canadian. If I move to the UK and invent something, is it automatically a British invention, or an American invention?
He immigrated in '71, invention was "late 70s".
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#24Food with placenames often are misleading and not from the placename that makes up the dish: french fries, hamburger, german chocolate cake, danish, wiener, etc. add california roll to that list. [and how could I forget Hawaiian pizza? as noted in sibling comment] Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada.
Where I live we have "American breakfast." It's fried rice with ketchup in it, some little hotdogs and a fried egg. Cursed.
Ha! That is a funny one. We call those miniature _frankfurters_ Wiener/Vienna Sausages --man, I hope people in Vienna don't even know what those things are.
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#25"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
""California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado"" I read that quickly, ignored the "to food" component, and then imagined all Californians walking around with an avocado in their pocket at all times...
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Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#26"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
According to the Chef who was born in Japan, he says they add "California" to names of things as a stand-in for any place in north America because they recognize California but may not recognize Vancouver or Podunk Washington, etc.
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Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#27"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
According to the Chef who was born in Japan, he says they add "California" to names of things as a stand-in for any place in north America because they recognize California but may not recognize Vancouver or Podunk Washington, etc.
I would try a Podunk roll
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#28"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
Except in the case of the California burrito which typically adds French fries [1] into the mix
[1] https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/california-burrito/
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#29Food with placenames often are misleading and not from the placename that makes up the dish: french fries, hamburger, german chocolate cake, danish, wiener, etc. add california roll to that list. [and how could I forget Hawaiian pizza? as noted in sibling comment] Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada.
Ok, I'll give you Japanese-Canadian in the title. All the more to his credit that he figured out what the locals could handle back then.
This whole class of problems goes away if HN simply globally replaced 'Canadian' with 'Outdoorsy':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQCyAQBgXY&t=115s
A quick check shows this is a big improvement in clarity - Outdoorsy Bacon, Outdoorsy Tire.
More ambitiously, there's renaming Canada to The Great Outdoors. The .ou country TLD is available and a lot less confusing than .ca
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
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