[Sca-cooks] Goulasch

[ysabeau]

That is the type of goulash I grew up with and hated it. I spent a 
year in Germany before I realized their goulasch was quite 
different and very yummy!

Ysabeau

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
<adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:04:57 -0500

>Also sprach Bill Fisher:
>>In North Central PA, they refer to any tomato with macaroni type 
thing
>>as goulash, not the hungarian stuff either.  Usually with 
onions, peppers
>>(ahem mangos) and ground beer or crumbled sausage.
>
>When I was a kid, I remember being exposed to a goulash like 
that, 
>except it had a brown gravy-type sauce instead of a tomato 
product. 
>It was something I've often wondered about as I became interested 
in 
>food as a more academic subject. My mother was born New Jersey 
with 
>an Irish/Brooklyn father and an Upstate New York/German immigrant 
>mother, but spent her childhood split between eastern Long 
Island, 
>back when it was still a wilderness, and Brooklyn. My mom's 
memory, 
>at age 87, is still sharp as a tack, but she claims to have no 
memory 
>of any goulash that wasn't Hungarian and laced with paprika.
>
>>It's a recession perversion of the real thing., I think.  I find 
>>versions of it
>>from all areas of the country.
>>
>>All this in the land of Chef Boy-ar-dee.
>
>One never knows, do one? Which reminds me. I must send another 
>anonymous, threatening note to Pace Foods, suggesting that A) 
nobody 
>in the world makes a commercial salsa, cruda or otherwise, in New 
>York City, and B) if they did, it would be better than Pace's 
(whose 
>chief executive offices, as part of the Campbell's Soup Empire, 
are 
>in Camden, NJ).  Do these idiots think we're effete for no 
reason?!?
>
>Adamantius
>-- 
>
>
>
>
>"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de 
la 
>brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let 
them 
>eat cake!"
>	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
>Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782
>
>"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on 
Prozac?"
>	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman 
Terry 
>Holt, 07/29/04
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