#La Choy

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1967 La Choy Chow Mein ad

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Yum. MSG flavored with food.

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For you guys who maybe have never heard of La Choy.

Founded in Michigan in 1922, La Choy is a brand of canned ingredients for Americanized Chinese food. For most suburban white kids, this was Chinese food for most of the mid-20th century. Even restaurant quality American-Chinese food was a revelation after a childhood of white-sauced proteins, celery, canned water chestnuts, and canned mung bean sprouts.

YES. CANNED. It sounds awful now, but finding bean sprouts and other typically Chinese/Korean vegetables at the local market was difficult in the 1920s, in US stores stocking only the most basic and European of vegetables and all of it seasonal because mass agriculture hadn't really developed yet.

Delbert the Dragon was La Choy's spokesperson for their line of chow mein offerings from 1965 to 1967. I didn't even know he existed until Mr Plan stumbled across him in a bundle of 1969s tv commercials. They often feature Delbert rescuing a housewife from not knowing either what to make for dinner or how to make a dinner -- misogyny yay! There was a spot featuring a hapless dad, so equality I guess?

La Choy was founded by Ilhan New 유일한 of Pyongyang, Joseon (now North Korea), with Wallace Smith of U-Michigan. He founded La Choy to supply Chinese Americans with easily available mung bean sprouts and other ingredients, after a career selling Chinese traditional medicine ingredients to put himself through college. The company was hugely successful, but his interests took him back to Korea. He left La Choy and the US in 1926 to focus on supplying medicinal ingredients to the Korean Peninsula. He's actually a fascinating person, well worth looking up. The company continued on without him (and Mr Smith, who tragically died in 1937) and La Choy is currently owned by ConAgra Foods because isn't everything? *sigh*

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#LaChoy #LaChoySweet&SourSauce #Sweet&SourSauceReview

I tried the La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce and it was pretty good.

This sauce had a more sour taste and was lightly sweet to me. The sauce's texture was liquidly than thick like other Americanized chinese restaurants sweet & sour sauce.

I would eat this again.

Got at Meijer.

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La Choy Chow Mein Commercials (1965-1967)

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When you're craving La Choy but want to make it more effortful and even more flavorless

McCalls Cooking School, Book 1: Chicken & Poultry, 1986

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companies who discontinue my favorite little treats should go to jail forever and ever

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next year.. I’ll be there god dammit.

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