The problem is you posted that on an internet forum, so you don't know if it's the cause of the rumour or whether it's coming from different sources. I'm sure I've said it before, but back in the D3 days a few of us used the OWS forum and intentionally put false rumours on to see how quickly the HDM would pick up on them and report them as though they were true. Worryingly given how many people believe them it was quite a lot (although this was Fieldhouse's day). Same thing happens now, only it's not just limited to reporters doing it. People see comments like the one you made before and decide to just tell their mates they've heard there's going to be new investors, and it grows Chinese whispers style so that by the time it gets back to here it's barely recognisable as the original statement. Then because it's not recognisable people assume it's come from 2 different places so it must be more reliable. By the way, for people saying 51%/49% split is enough. Unless we know who the investors are and their motivations I'd want it 76%/24%, there's some things about the way a business is run that you can block changes to with a 49% stake in a business that you stop being able to if you have less than 25%.
I thought so but apparently not. Chow is short for Chow-chow according to a few internet sources including the online oxford dictionary. I guess it became part of our vocabulary in the mid 19th century and now just refers to food. Chow-chow is some sort of pickled vegetables dish that I have never heard of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow-chow
Yes I believe so. We do create dishes that one could say are inspired by other countries cuisine. Tex-Mex is a good example of that. It is hard to go to places like a chinese restaurant and then know if that is an actually dish or a created dish. I assume that other countries do the same thing but perhaps that is another aspect of us that is a little offensive.
Chop Suey and Chow Mein are both dishes that were popularised by Chinese immigrants in the US, Chow Mein is a popular dish in China, it's just not called Chow Mein.
chow mein is traditionally made with the chow chow (a breed of dog) also known as the chu chu (related to the chihuahua) or so I was told, I cant find anything online about it, so its probably bollocks.
According to the Wiki Bible: Chop suey (/ˈtʃɒpˈsuːi/; simplified Chinese: 杂碎; traditional Chinese: 雜碎; pinyin: zá suì; literally "assorted pieces") is a dish in American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, consisting of meat (often chicken, fish, beef, prawns, or pork) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of stir-fried noodles.