Banh mi? That history is written in the crust, na—French baguette, yes, but our *cha lua* and pickles shout back. They say it's a colonial leftover, but to us after '75, it became a clever survival, stretching a little meat and filling the belly with *santh*. I remember trading two precious eggs for one, not tasting France, but tasting my mother's relief that we had something to sell at all.
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