"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 06:50:06 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888
> > wrote:
>
>> When I was a kid in the midwest, Chinese restaurants uniformly served
>> chop suey (stir fried beef, celery, and mung bean sprouts among other
>> things).
>
> Oh, man... you just dredged up old memories. I'd completely forgotten
> about that nasty stuff. Hated it as a kid, but it seemed like my
> mother was always opening the can(s) of Chung King and serving it for
> dinner.

Yep. My mother loves the stuff. I made the mistake of buying it a couple
of years ago thinking Angela would like it. I don't know if it was that way
as a kid but now it has soy protein in it and you'd be hard pressed to find
the actual meat in it. It was actually worse than I remembered it.