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Cielo Azul

On 5/7/2016 10:13 PM, cshenk wrote:
> wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> It's called American Chop Suey in my neck of the woods. I could
>> never figure out why.
>>
>> Denise in NH
>
> Well, if you think of it, chop suey is a 'bit of this and bit of that'
> cooking. It was made of what you had. Goulash is the same idea, a stew
> of what you have.
> Carol
>

Chop Suey was railroad worker food, iirc.

That's pretty Americanized, as in 1st generation.

http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/chopsuey.asp