While picking apart some lovely salads at a restaurant the other night, Most-Honoured Girlfriend had this to say.

MHG: It’s funny to me how adding orange slices to a salad suddenly makes it “Oriental.”

SB: It’s just because the oranges are from that part of the world. I don’t think any other part of the salad is related to Asia in any way.

MHG: I wonder if there’s such a thing as a Cantonese orange. They have Mandarin orange slices, why not Cantonese?

SB: You’re making an excellent point. They must have oranges. Where are the salads based on that regional dialect?

MHG: If the movies from those regions are any indication, the Cantonese orange slices would always be getting into fights, anyway. The Mandarin oranges just have a lot of high drama and dialogue.

SB: Yeah, they’re a bit easier to put into salads and eat when they’re not flying about on the tops of trees and the like.