laser chicken

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laser chicken - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  laser chicken
   n.
  
     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).