laser chicken

laser chicken
 n.

   Kung Pao Chicken, a standard Chinese dish containing chicken, peanuts,
   and hot red peppers in a spicy pepper-oil sauce. Many hackers call it
   laser chicken for two reasons: It can {zap} you just like a laser, and
   the sauce has a red color reminiscent of some laser beams. The dish
   has also been called gunpowder chicken.

   In a variation on this theme, it is reported that some Australian
   hackers have redesignated the common dish `lemon chicken' as Chernobyl
   Chicken. The name is derived from the color of the sauce, which is
   considered bright enough to glow in the dark (as, mythically, do some
   of the inhabitants of Chernobyl).