Burgoo

[Beverly Flanigan]

I'll beat Allan Metcalf in pointing out that 'burgoo' is in his _How We
Talk: American Regional English Today_, p. 47:  Burgoo is "a spicy stew
cooked outdoors in a kettle, which you can also get in central
Illinois."  That doesn't explain its origin, of course, but I suspect it's
in DARE.  It's obviously a South Midland term, not restricted to the one
hamlet visited by the NPR people.  The varied mix of pork, mutton, and fowl
sounded interesting though. . . .

At 03:29 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote:
>I heard this term on NPR yesterday morning, and I got up half expecting to
>see it discussed in the list already . . . nothing, even today!  Or is our
>friend still in the library searching?  Everyone using it seemed to be
>from the same hamlet in Kentucky.
>
>Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>