Slang Jang (1901)

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"Slang Jang" appears to be from Texas. I'm seeing it in many cookbooks. Ben
Zimmer reported on it here, but it appears one week earlier in
Newspaperarchive.
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17 August 1901, Commerce (TX) Journal, pg. 2, col. 2:
About fifteen couples enjoyed a "slang jang" party at Iceland Monday night,
where dancing and music was had until a late hour. All report a most pleasant
time with the "slang jang" as delicious.
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_Reading  Food: There's a Mythological Construct in My Soup_
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By  Betty Fussell. New York Times (1857-Current  file). New York, N.Y.: Sep
24, 1989. p. BR36 (1 page) :
...the Texas hot-pepper relish called Slang Jang.
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
_Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods - Page  63_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN087565035X&id=Knu0Xn2iJb4C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq="slang+jang"&ie=ISO-8
859-1&sig=LjIehBuAbyZtL3TilujQ0ZdKxzU)
by Ernestine P. Sewell,  Ernestine Sewall Linck, Joyce Gibson Roach -  1992 -
257 pages
SLANG JANG I  tomato, fresh from the garden, chopped i sweet green pepper,
chopped
i  medium onion, chopped 2 stalks of celery, sliced About 1/2 pod of hot  ...
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_From Blinky to Blue-John: a word atlas of Northeast Texas -  Page 199_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0841346712&id=WfcLAAAAMAAJ&q="slang+jang"&dq=
"slang+jang"&ie=ISO-8859-1)
by Fred  Tarpley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1970 - 338 pages
Goulash,  slumgullion, slang jang, pot licker, and lum golly can be applied
to
any soup or dish containing vegetables (usually left-overs) rather than to a
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slang-jang  -- a dish containing oysters, onions, pickles, peppers, etc. We
have a single  citation from Arkansas, but a Google search suggests that
this is still  known, especially in the South and South Midland. Is this
part of your  culinary background?
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The Dallas Morning News archive has this  from 1907:

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1907 _Dallas Morning News_ 2 Mar. 6/4 The Honey Grove  dish, their national
dish, is slangjang. It is said to be made up of what  generally gets in the
receptacle for a pig's dinner, and it produces all  sorts of things,
including nightmares and new candidates.
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But  Newspaperarchive beats that...

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1901 _Commerce Journal_ (Texas)  23 Aug. 6[?]/2 About fifteen couples
enjoyed a "slang jang" party at Iceland  Monday night, where dancing and
music was had until a late hour. All report a  most pleasant time with the
"slang jang" as  delicious.

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