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Most of the dishes that are served in US-based Chinese restaurants were developed by Asian chefs working in restaurants on the West Coast using locally-available ingredients. Reproducing dishes that were identical to those served in China would be difficult due to the unavailability of many key ingredients on this side of the ocean and having them be accepted and popular on this continent would be hampered by the differences in the palate preferences of the two cultures. An individual's taste palate preferences develop out of a complex combination of personal experience, cultural traditions, local food availability and probably many other things. They are acquired early in life and are very resistant to change once they have become established. This is true for people all over the world. The chefs realized that even with the right ingredients they still could not serve the same dishes in America that they prepared in China because American customers would not find them to be agreeable to their North American palates, and so they created new North America-specific dishes using foods that they could readily obtain over here.

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1 in 3??? Nuh-uh, not even close. More like 4 out of 12, probs.

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OK, I may have an understanding of math that is comparable to that of Barbie's arm candy and private sub Ken, but if 33.33 percent is equivalent to 11 out of 33, then 30 percent is approx. 10 out of 33. So the rate stated by the 1 in 3 Campaign was off by a whopping 3%. In the world of public relations messaging that's not a serious discrepancy.

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That's what I meant, but bad abortion lady got my little girly brain all confused.

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I bet they'd stay the hell away from mirrors.

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Damn those Mongols!

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That would go against what Bibble says!

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*Raises hand

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Except the department store manikin doesn't make dumb noise out of its mouth-hole all the time.

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What about the "I regret my abortion" sign-carrying dude?

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Care for a slice of Chinese Fetus Pie?

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Ooh, a bidding war! I'll promise not have sex with Jill, 30% more never's worth! Who will raise it to 3 in 10?

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I can't believe she tried to do math. Isn't math one of the things Paul Broun identifies as lies straight from the pit of hell? She came close to being a minion of Satan, but God saved her soul, when he increased her Dunning-Kruger effect by 30000%

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"We" (my wife) had one. "We" got pregnant about a week after having our first (nobody told us how fertile "we" were immediately after birth). We were just starting our lives and the hospital bill even then nearly put us into bankruptcy. Two children so close would have sunk us. So consider my hand raised.

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take 2 in 10 and call me in the morning

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the case for retroactive abortion

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