Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
What does he think I'm gonna do? "Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!"
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“The dinner was the best style of women's-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and everything but the invincible fried chicken resembled something else.”
— Sinclair Lewis, book Babbitt
Babbitt (1922), Ch. 8
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