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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Spending Christmas at LA’s Chinese restaurants

    What will you be eating on Christmas? Gingerbread? Mashed potatoes? Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, how about sesame noodles and orange chicken? The idea of Jews eating Chinese food on December 25 is so ingrained that it’s become a punchline. But is it a provable phenomenon, and if so, how did the trend start?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 21, 2016 • 1 min read

    What will you be eating on Christmas? Gingerbread? Mashed potatoes? Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, how about sesame noodles and orange chicken? The idea of Jews eating Chinese food on December 25 is so ingrained that it’s become a punchline. But is it a provable phenomenon, and if so, how did the trend start?

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    The best TV shows ever, and Chinese food for Christmas
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    2. 17:16Author writes about making today different
    3. 32:55Reminiscing on the Ramones debut, 40 years later
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    The full episode

    4 of 4
    The best TV shows ever, and Chinese food for Christmas
    1. 0:00What's the best TV show ever?
    2. 17:16Author writes about making today different
    3. 32:55Reminiscing on the Ramones debut, 40 years later
    4. 47:38Spending Christmas at LA’s Chinese restaurantsYou’re reading this
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