Posted on 12/29/2020 4:38:33 PM PST by mylife
Goulash, American chop suey, slumgullion — whatever you call it, this meaty, comforting dish is just the thing to warm up with on a cold winter night! But when one person on Twitter posted a picture of the dish she grew up calling slumgillion, also known as slumgullion, many users were divided over what exactly the right name is for this winter classic.
"What do you call this?" posited @SandySue1958 on Sunday. "Growing up, my mother called it slumgillion."
Slumgullion is known as a cheap stew made from leftovers, but not everyone was in agreement. In fact, the responses to the picture of a beefy casserole-type dish containing macaroni were extremely divisive.
"Wow, you must have been rich!" commented one person. "Our slumgullion did NOT have macaroni. We called this beefaroni."
"Same," posted another person. "Beef-a-Roni (west coast)," she added, pointing to the fact that the dish's different names might be attributed to regional differences.
Many others thought the pictured showed a dish known as American chop suey.
"American Chop Suey?" offered one commenter.
"American chop suey," agreed another Twitter user. "My dad used to make it all the time. He used a can of condensed tomato soup, diced tomatoes and green peppers along with ground beef.
Other foodies had an entirely different opinion.
"Goulash," responded another person.
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where I came from we didnt have fancy dancy type names
it’s mac and cheese with some extras
hamburger helper ?
or Hamburger Helper
Goulash...tomatoes, onions and ground beef & elbow macaroni. Our whole family still makes it and it’s a pig out dish.
we called it marzetti
If it’s beef with spaghetti sauce we just called it Macaretti...
I call it seriously lacking in sauce.
Yes, Goulash! We would melt Velveeta cheese in ours too.
One of the dishes Mom made was called ‘chicken stuff’.
And not just any stuff with chicken in it counted. Oh no! This chicken stuff was only made one way.
“Goulash...tomatoes, onions and ground beef & elbow macaroni.”
Yep. I’m from the midwest and we call it goulash.
“Too lazy to cook”
The word “macaroni” should always be coupled with the phrase “and cheese”.
That is no more goulash than it is beef chow mein.
We called it goulash.
Not Hungarian goulash but looks like what Americans call goulash.
Goulash in our home, no tomatoes, but with spaghetti sauce.
my mother’s goulash was never with hamburger
it had chunks of beef..but we always split a cow with someone so there was always a lot off beef
i dont think she called it goulash...i think it was stew but it did have paprika in it sometimes.
She just threw stuff together...and we ate whatever it was.
Quick dinner for Monday’s. Beef Mac and cheese. Can of rotel. .... easy peasy nice and easy.
Sorry I forgot to sow division.
Those who don’t know it as goulash are clearly communists.
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