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The Ginsu knife cut its way into American culture in 1978 with a TV informercial. Rhode Island native Ed Valenti is one of the brains behind the Ginsu. He and his partner gave the cheap serrated knife a faux-Japanese name and the rest was history. Now a Rhode Island lawmaker wants to name a quarter-mile road in the state, "Ginsu Way."



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