Great wall of Chinese take-out! Tom over at Unrequited Narcissism has uncovered what could be the most gruesome scandal to hit the District, nay, the entire country in decades. The information he reveals is a call to arms, and when there is war in the name of Butterstick, you can count on DCist to strap on plenty of ammo and indiscriminately shoot into crowds, regardless of the presence of innocent bystanders, as long as we get the bad guys and get ’em good.

It seems there may be a vast, sinister conspiracy headquartered in D.C.’s Chinatown. Please take a careful look at the photo to the right. This is a restaurant called Tai Shan, the same “name” the National Zoo keeps trying to get us to use when referring to Butterstick. Then take note of the blue arrows. What is that they’re pointing to? A picture of a panda in the window? Have you no decency, sir (and by sir, we guess we mean the National Zoo, the Chinese government, and Chinese restaurants everywhere)?

Quoth Tom:

But look, people: we can’t panic. It’s easy enough to see through this grisly code, but we have to THINK. Butterstick is being sent back to China in just under three years. Clearly his communist proprietors are waiting for him to become nice and plump on American zoo food (paid for by Uncle Sam, no doubt) before tucking into their gruesome repast. We have some time, but none to waste. We need to organize.

Tom has pointed us towards a t-shirt campaign that gets high marks for cleverness but low marks for effectively keeping the ‘Stick alive. Now, we’re not suggesting that anyone (and by anyone, we definitely mean the National Zoo, the Chinese government, and Chinese restaurants everywhere) actually intends to serve up General Tso’s Panda. But given the evidence, and the fact that others on the Internet are now suggesting this as a plausible scenario, we feel it’s only right to alert the people. How the people choose to interpret this information, and what they choose to do about it, is beyond our control.