zxcvbob wrote:
> Paco's Tacos wrote:
>> "Andy" <q> wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Sheldon said...
>>>
>>>> "Vilco" wrote:
>>>>> Is it made with ground meat?
>>>>> Which meat and how is it cooked?
>>>>> Which ingredients along with the meat?
>>>> Sovenly Guido is American chop suey minus the elbow macaroni.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AMERICAN CHOP SUEY
>>>>
>>>> Sheldoni
>>>
>>> Chop Suey is an Asian dish created in America for non-Asian
>>> Americans, iirc.
>>> The translation into English is "Beggar's hash," or something close.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>> American Chop Suey is a New England thing. Mac 'n meat. Nothing
>> Asian about it. No idea where the name came from though!
>>
>
> In the South, we called it "goulash". (and it has nothing to do with
> the Hungarian dish by the same name)
>
> Bob

I remember being invited to a friends' house for dinner one night. She said
she was making goulash. Naturally I thought of Hungarian Goulash and my
taste buds were all set for it. Turned out to be a macaroni & hamburger
casserole. Hmmm.