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Originally Posted by Crawford
For example, there's a niche food in Detroit's black neighborhoods called Asian corned beef. They mostly sell these corned beef & cabbage egg rolls, but there are other fried corned beef dishes. My best guess is it developed as a legacy of former Jewish delis/takeouts in NW Detroit, where it seems most common. Kind of a Jewish + soul food + "Chinese" mashup.
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Asian Corned Beef is the name of the restaurant/chain (like Lou's, Bread Basket, etc). They've been around for a while, and they created the corned beef egg roll. Initially they just sold regular corned beef sandwiches.
But yeah, it would be weird if those just jumped from being niche to being called a Detroit egg roll or something.