On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:13:39 -0500, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>Sheldon wrote:
>> On Sep 8, 1:15?pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>>>
>>> I remember being invited to a friends' house for dinner one night.
>>> She said she was making goulash. Naturally I thought of Hungarian
>>> Goulash and my taste buds were all set for it. Turned out to be a
>>> macaroni & hamburger casserole. Hmmm.
>>
>> Your host didn't say "Hungarian Goulash" but technically you were
>> served a goulash, hog slop is a goulash.
>>
>> gou?lash
>> noun
>> Etymology: Hungarian guly?s, short for guly?sh?s, literally,
>> herdsman's meat
>> 1 : a stew made with meat (as beef), assorted vegetables, and paprika
>> 2 : a round in bridge played with hands produced by a redistribution
>> of previously dealt cards
>> ---> 3 : a mixture of heterogeneous elements : JUMBLE
>> ---
>>
>> Sheldon
>
>No, she didn't say "Hungarian Goulash". But since I'm not originally from
>the southern U.S. I had never heard of this macaroni hamburger concoction
>before, let alone heard it called goulash! I never had it when we lived in
>South Carolina, either. Maybe it should be called Jumble, instead

My mother made this a lot and she called it goulash. The recipe was
printed in some magazine in the 1950s by a tomato sauce company which
I do not recall. Hamburger cooked with onions and bell pepper, tomato
sauce added, then elbow macaroni, maybe something else. I don't know
what spices she used, but she didn't know about paprika except as a
decoration for deviled eggs.