“‘The hour of noon has passed,’ said Judge Fang. ‘Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.‘…The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes… He had once reduced Chang to a state of catalepsis by describing an avenue in Brooklyn that was lined with fried chicken establishments for miles, all of them ripoffs of Kentucky Fried Chicken.” - from Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”

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