On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:15:14 -0400, "Mike Carvin"
> wrote:

>
>"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> Then there is the "American" chop suey which is just a
>> mess of macaroni noodles, ground beef, tomato sauce and
>> whatever else people like to put in it. How that conglom-
>> eration came to be called chop suey escapes me. I never
>> even heard of it until maybe 10 years ago. Where I came
>> from chop suey was a vaguely Chinese influenced dish.
>
>In (waaay) upstate New York where I and my wife grew up, that dish was
>called goulash -- even though it bears absolutely no resemblance to the
>paprika-laden Hungarian stew. I have never heard of it being called
>American chop suey until we moved to Massachusetts. We still call it
>goulash - blame it on upbringing. :-)

I grew up in central NY and had heard of it as "goulash." I don't
even know how I knew that because we never had it at home.

A former roommate from New Hampshire called it "chop suey." It's
starting to seem like "chop suey" is a New England thang.

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