/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19453396

Also, LaChoy was founded by a Korean immigrant in Detroit.

>>18842244
>wet burrito

I always get a wet burrito at the Mexican joint but I always thought it was a straight-up Mexican recipe, was it some Mexican-Michigander who invented it?

>>13752549
>La Choy mini egg rolls!

I loved La Choy eggrolls with a bit of sour cream when I was a kid but they no longer exist and haven’t been around for ages.

I actually sent off an email to La Choy earlier this year, complaining about all the damn pizza-rolls and asking them to put their eggrolls back into production and they replied with something about having to follow the market, blablabla.

Also, Lay Choy Inc. was founded by a Korean in Detroit back in the 1920s and was responsible in large part for the popularity of Asian food in the U.S.

>>13213614

La Choy was originally a Detroit company, if anybody is interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Choy

>>13006346

Why the hell don't they make them anymore?! I used to love them with a bit of sour cream when I was a kid but I haven't seen them anywhere in years, just dozens of kinds of pizza rolls.

>>13006383

I wasn't aware that La Choy was originally a Detroit company?

The company was founded in 1922 by Dr. Ilhan New (유일한), later founder of Yuhan Corporation in South Korea; and Wally Smith from the University of Michigan. The first product, canned mung bean sprouts, was originally sold in Smith's Detroit, Michigan, grocery store.[1]

New left the company for personal reasons in 1930, and Smith was killed by lightning in 1937. Regardless, the company flourished. By the late 1930s, management at the firm had developed a comprehensive line of food products, including bean sprouts, soy sauce, subgum, kumquats, water chestnuts, brown sauce, bamboo shoots, and chow mein noodles.

The company had capitalized on the growing fascination Americans had with the Orient, including an entirely different type of cuisine. In 1937, the company built its first manufacturing facility in Detroit, featuring 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of production space.

To reduce overhead costs and maintain profitability during World War II, management decided to relocate the company from its facility in Detroit about 90 mi (140 km) to Archbold, Ohio. Selling its Detroit plant to the federal government for the production of munitions, the proceeds from the sale enabled the company to start a new era in its history.