In what decade did the Thai government launch its campaign to promote a single national noodle dish, aiming to replace various regional noodle dishes with one unifying recipe?

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Which Thai Prime Minister spearheaded the 1930s–40s campaign that promoted pad thai as a unifying national dish?

Pad Thai was deliberately created by the Thai government in the 1930s–40s as a unifying national dish to replace regional noodle dishes.

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Rather than evolving over centuries, pad Thai was deliberately created as a symbol of national identity by the government of which country?

Bangkok's pad Thai wasn't a traditional dish until the 1930s–40s, invented by Thai government as nationalist propaganda to unify the country.

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Which now-iconic street food dish did Thailand's government actively promote in the 1930s and 1940s as part of a nationalist campaign to unify the country?

Bangkok's pad Thai wasn't a traditional dish until the 1930s–40s, invented by Thai government as nationalist propaganda to unify the country.

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Which Baroque composer wrote a satirical 1732 cantata poking fun at a coffee addiction?

Bach composed a cantata mocking his mother's coffee addiction in 1732—'The Coffee Cantata.' It premiered in a Leipzig coffee house.

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What is the name of the Japanese technique of grilling skewered chicken over charcoal, typically served in small portions at izakayas?

Tokyo's Yurakucho district has a famous cluster of yakitori stalls that have operated under elevated train tracks since the 1950s, filling the air with charcoal smoke as trains rumble overhead.

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The original place name behind 'jalapeño,' before Spanish colonizers altered its spelling, came from which indigenous language?

Jalapeño peppers get their name from Xalapa, Mexico, yet they were renamed by Spanish colonizers who altered the Nahuatl original.