What do you call this macaroni dish? Viral post divides Twitter users

today ^ | 12/28/2020 | ronnie koenig

[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.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

We just called it dinner.

[MayflowerMadam]

Mom called it goulash.

[EvilCapitalist]

That’s what it looks like to me.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’ve never eaten Slumgullion in my life. Never even heard of it till after I got married and my wife’s family mentioned how they used to eat it when they were poor.

[madison10]

Goulash, but usually had more sauce/liquid. Yep, midwest dish.

[Jane Long]

slumgullion.....lol!

Just watched a classic Christmas movie, with that dish mentioned.

We call it Tallorini.

[Responsibility2nd]

Hamburger Helper? Here’s how I make that. I empty all the contents into a sauce pan. Then I throw the contents away and then I eat the box.

[Songcraft]

That could be one type of "Goulash", or one type of what others might call "Cowboy Stew".

       

[FreedomPoster]

Hamburger Helper for sure.

[itsahoot]

It looks more like hamburger helper to me. I think SlumGullion or Mulligan Stew came about in the HoBo days when each HoBo contributed what ever they scrounged up and put it in a shared stew pot.

[Fungi]

Whatever you call it, I wouldn’t touch it.

[Exit148]

If it had a bit more tomato sauce, it would be called American Chop Suey. Nothing to do with Chinese food, but popular in New England and Canada.

[itsahoot]

Whatever you call it, I wouldn’t touch it.

All you food bigots have never been hungry have you?

[a fool in paradise]

http://www.rudilechners.com/food/rudis-special-hungarian-goulash-recipe/

Rudi’s Special Hungarian Goulash – Receipe
From the country's varied culinary repertoire Hungarian goulash is the most famous and often cooked dish outside the borders of Hungary. Authentic gulyás is a beef dish cooked with onions, Hungarian paprika powder, tomatoes and some green pepper. Potato and noodles (csipetke in Hungarian) are also added according to some recipes. Hungarian goulash is neither a soup nor a stew, it’s somewhere in between.

Servings: 12

Ingredients
6 pounds onions, finely chopped
8 pounds beef (tri-tip or inside round)
2.5 oz per piece, 4 pieces per person, in cubes 1 1/2 inches thick
1 cup paprika
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons marjoram
1 tablespoon thyme
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 cup tomato puree
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 whole head of garlic, peeled & chopped
1 tablespoon caraway seeds, chop with the garlic
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (season according to your taste)
1 cup vegetable oil
3 quarts water
1/2 corn starch with 1 cup of water

Directions
Saute onions in large hot skillet with oil until dark brown. Add the paprika and saute for 2 minutes
Add the meat and saute the meat with the onion and paprika for 5 minutes. Fill the pot with water until the meat is covered.

Add the tomato puree.
Smash garlic with the salt and caraway seed and add with the rest of the seasoning to the goulash.

Simmer for one hour and 15 minutes or until the meat is done. De-grease the goulash with a large spoon if there is too much fat on top.

To thicken the goulash combine the corn starch with water and add to goulash while stirring until the right thickness is reached.

Bring the goulash to simmer for 5 more minutes. Check for spices and seasoning and adjust if necessary.

Serving ideas: The goulash tastes better if cooked one day in advance and reheated.

Serve with boiled potatoes or noodles.

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and those should be flat egg noodles, not macaronis.

[Rio]

Noodle Goo.

[Retrofitted]

My grandfather was a hobo (nowadays, they'd be called "migrant workers") and slumgullion was a thing he and my grandmother made us when we were poor. To quote my grandmother, "If there's a recipe for it, it's not slumgullion!"

But you're right; that's EXACTLY what it was. Whatever you could scrounge got thrown together. Typically, ours was a potato or two, an onion or two, a piece of meat about the size of a deck of cards, and some ketchup mixed with hot water. Shoot, now not only am I nostalgic, I'm hungry!

[foundedonpurpose]

Yup, add extra cheese!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I don’t remember this particular dish, but we probably would have called it “casserole”. It sure isn’t goulash.

My mother was a good cook, except that she made the very worst so-called chili that I have ever encountered.

[_longranger81]

That was American Chop Suey in my school system, and Glop in my house.

[lee martell]

Mumbo Gumbo.