SC - On a Tangential, OT Note - Was: Potato salad+pasta salad- the mild ...
Aelfwyn at aol.com
Aelfwyn at aol.com
Tue Aug 3 08:58:46 PDT 1999
In a message dated 8/2/99 10:34:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, harper at idt.net
writes:
<< My lord husband grew up in New Hampshire, and his family ate a
similar dish. It was known locally as "American Chop Suey". A quick
Altavista search on that phrase pulled up over 200 hits, several of which
were cafeteria menus from public schools in New England. So it
appears to be a commonly used term for that dish in that region. (And
now we can begin the inevitable sub-sub-thread about chop suey being
an American invention anyway...)
Brighid >>
I grew up in Northern New Jersey. Mom learned a lot of her cooking from my
Dad's German family, though. The macaroni/ground beef/tomato stuff was a
feature of my youth, too. Never heard it called American Chop Suey until I
moved to New England. Where would our church suppers be without it?
And for my 2 cents on potato salad:
Potatoes boiled in skins then peeled,
hard boiled eggs, chopped
celery, diced
lots of celery seed
chives, snipped
mayo thinned with lemon juice
salt and pepper
Aelfwyn
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