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byakee
 
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Default American chop suey (was Sloppy Joes)

A shot rang out! And (PENMART01) said:

> >My Mid-Western grandmother made a similar dish (hers included onions
> >and had ketchup instead of tomato sauce) and called it "slumgullion".
> >
> >J.J. in WA

>
> She was being polite, in not calling is "shit".
>
> Merriam Webster
>
> slum·gul·lion
> noun
> Etymology: perhaps from slum slime + English dialect gullion mud, cesspool
> Date: 1902
> : a meat stew


So *that's* what it means. I wish she were around to see this
description, she'd have loved it... :-D


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