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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>laser chicken</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lase.html" title="lase"/><link rel="next" href="leaf-site.html" title="leaf site"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">laser chicken</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lase.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leaf-site.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="laser-chicken"/><dt xmlns="" id="laser-chicken"><b>laser chicken</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Kung Pao Chicken, a standard Chinese dish containing chicken,
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peanuts, and hot red peppers in a spicy pepper-oil sauce. Many hackers
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call it <span class="firstterm">laser chicken</span> for two
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reasons: It can <a href="../Z/zap.html"><i class="glossterm">zap</i></a> you just like a laser, and the
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sauce has a red color reminiscent of some laser beams. The dish has also
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been called <span class="firstterm">gunpowder chicken</span>.</p><p>In a variation on this theme, it is reported that some Australian
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hackers have redesignated the common dish ‘lemon chicken’ as
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<span class="firstterm">Chernobyl Chicken</span>. The name is
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derived from the color of the sauce, which is considered bright enough to
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glow in the dark (as, mythically, do some of the inhabitants of
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Chernobyl).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lase.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leaf-site.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lase </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leaf site</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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