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laser chicken
n. Kung Pao Chicken, a standard Chinese dish containing chicken, peanuts,
and hot red peppers in a spicy pepper-oil sauce. Many hackers call it laser
chicken for two reasons: It can zap you just like a laser, and the sauce has
a red color reminiscent of some laser beams. The dish has also been called
gunpowder chicken. In a variation on this theme, it is reported that some
Australian hackers have redesignated the common dish lemon chicken as
Chernobyl Chicken. The name is derived from the color of the sauce, which is
considered bright enough to glow in the dark (as, mythically, do some of the
inhabitants of Chernobyl).