"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
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>
> 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. :-)

MikeC