Game Day Dinner on Sunday [1] was Chinese take-out food (you know, a tradition for the holiday season). While ordering, the topic of General Tso's Chicken came up, because the menu for the local Chinese restaurant was written in Engrish [2] and came out as General Tao's Chicken.
I normally wouldn't even bother mentioning this, but I just now came across this fantastic talk on General Tso's Chicken [3] (who is also making a documentary about General Tso's Chicken [4]) that goes into not only the history of this classic dish, but makes the point that it is a thoroughly American dish [5] (created by a Taiwanese chef in 1970s New York City).
Oh, about the title? That's also covered in the talk, which reminded me a bit of Connections [6], that wonderful television series by James Burke [7].
[3] http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html
[4] http://thesearchforgeneraltso.com/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso's_chicken
[6] http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(science_historian)