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).
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