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This stuff titles a 2009 cultural history by Andrew Coe (“koh”) whose first chapter examines the influence of Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (“zhawn bap-TEEST doo ahld”), who popularized “Stags’ Pizzles.” An actress rehearsing for a play is mistaken for a kidnapping victim in a 1919 comedy titled for this stuff, which was directed by Harold Lloyd. A song titled for a “cornet” version of this stuff was an early hit by Louis Armstrong. The reputation of this food sank in the 1920s after the La Choy (-5[1])Corporation started selling canned (-5[1])vegetables for making it. This food’s origin is apocryphally (-5[1])attributed to Hóngzhāng’s (10[1])visit to (10[1])the US. (10[1]-5[1])In a painting, the name for this food (10[3])appears (10[2])on a (10[1])neon (10[4])sign (10[1])outside (10[1])a window (10[1])near a woman (10[2])separated from her Doppelgänger by a red teapot. For 10 points, a painting by Edward Hopper is titled for what Chinese-American comfort (10[3])food? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: chop suey [or chop sooy; or zá suì; accept “Cornet Chop Suey”; prompt on Chinese food or Chinese-American food or similar answers until “Chinese-American” is read]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y22100%0%18%115.55

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Alex SchmidtPenn State AMichigan A9810
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BChicago C10010
Alan WuRutgers BUC Berkeley B100-5
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Walter ZhangBrown AStanford A10810
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins ACornell A10810
Matthew SiffYale BSouth Carolina A10910
Albert ZhangColumbia BFlorida A10910
Ryan SunUC Berkeley AChicago B11110
Clark SmithOhio State AMcGill A11210
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern AMinnesota B11210
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AToronto A11210
Ricky LiMIT ADuke A11210
Shardul RaoMinnesota AMaryland A11310
Claire JonesChicago AHarvard A11410
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AVanderbilt A11610
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BRutgers B11910
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Jim FanNorth Carolina AImperial A14110
Karan GurazadaTexas AYale A14110
Quynh PhungPurdue AIndiana A14110
Halle FriedmanNYU AClaremont A14310