american chop suey

Last night, we were discusses the foods we used to eat as kids, and one mentioned was American Chop Suey. Polly had mentioned in the past that she had never heard of it. Maybe it's a New England thing or something. American Chop Suey is essentially poor man's food. It's a combination of macaroni, a meat sauce (made with the fattiest hamburger meat you can buy, you know the one with the pig snouts mixed in; where you have to spit out some of the meat once you realize you cannot chew it...yummy) and various veggies. We used to eat this all the time. I think I liked it back then but probably wouldn't touch it now. What are some of the other poor man foods?