{"id":661,"date":"2008-03-17T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/harvard-advocate-poster-with-chinese-take-out-carton\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:45:31","slug":"harvard-advocate-poster-with-chinese-take-out-carton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/harvard-advocate-poster-with-chinese-take-out-carton\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Advocate poster with Chinese Take-out Carton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the posters for my events are quite adorable and amusing. This one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theharvardadvocate.com\/\">The Harvard Advocate<\/a> (and another one I will show from the Library of Congress) uses symbols of Chinese-ness (fortune cookies and takeout boxes) that are actually things largely indigenous to America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tso-advocate-poster.jpg\" title=\"Harvard Advocate Poster\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tso-advocate-poster.jpg\" title=\"Harvard Advocate Poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/tso-advocate-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Harvard Advocate Poster\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The takeout boxes are so American they are not really even used in Canada (which is a aluminum and Styrofoam market, as was explained to me). As you will read in the book, invented to hold shucked oysters (why they are still called &#8220;pails&#8221; in industry vernacular) and then adapted by Chinese restaurants for takeaways.\u00c2\u00a0 The one above is made by Fold-Pak, which is the largest take-out box manufacturer in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For all the Crimeds\/Crimexecs who have been teasing me because they say it&#8217;s treason to speak at The Advocate, I will simply say: They Asked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the posters for my events are quite adorable and amusing. This one from The Harvard Advocate (and another one I will show from the Library of Congress) uses symbols of Chinese-ness (fortune cookies and takeout boxes) that are actually things largely indigenous to America. The takeout boxes are so American they are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-chinese-food","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-aF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}