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adjl posted...

I have heard that name (because bilingual country), but I've never actually stopped to consider the reason for it. Where does it come from?

A few hypothesis, but one of the most popular was that corn, potato, and ground meat were cheap back in the days and the Asian workers that were hired to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. So basically they fed Asian workers a mix of that.

That hypothesis is debated though since some argue it came before the dish appeared on Canadian tables and that said workers mostly ate rice and soy beans.