[Fwd: Slumgully anyone?]

[Darla Wells]

I encountered it by way of an ex whose mother used to make it in Indiana. She
called it Slum and it had hamburger, celery, onions, potatoes, and kidney
beans and whatever else a person felt like adding (except when cooking for
said ex, who swore it had to be Mom's recipe or none at all). The first time
he mentioned it and we cooked it was in California while traveling with a
carnival. That stuff sure gets around.
Darla







On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:10:27 -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote
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> Like "slumgullion" it's also applied to relatively meager soups.
> From Google Books:
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>   2003 Brian Cummings _You Said a Mouthful_  (N.p.: Lulu Press) 178:
> Slumgully...was a tomato-based soup with homemade noodles and the
> smallest meatballs I ever saw....Slumgully was what we had when the
> pantry was bare.
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>   The connotations of "slum," "slumgullion," and variants are
> genrally negative.
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>   JL
> Barbara Need <nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote:
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> >From another list. I will forward replies. B
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> >My coworker and I were discussing a childhood dish our mothers made.
> >My mom always called it goulash (sp?)and her mom called it
> >slumgully. A Google search of "slumgully" suggests it derives from
> >the word "slumgullion" which soldiers in WWI used to refer to a
> >stew-like mixture of meat, potatoes, and whatever other odds and
> >ends were around.
> >
> >Today it's usually a variation of elbow macaroni, hamburger, crushed
> >tomatoes, onion, and maybe kidney beans, corn, green pepper, almost
> >anything really.
> >
> >At first we though the term had a geographical focus around
> >Pennsylvania and Ohio, but we've found people who know it as
> >slumgully from Boston. Another co-workwer from Buffalo calls it
> >goulash.
> >
> >Did anyone here grow up knowing this as slumgully? Where was that?
> >Are there any other names for it?
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