Talk:American chop suey

message: I suggest that this subject should be recast as "Macaroni and Beef", which is the commercial name for an entree of pasta and ground beef in tomato sauce. An example is Stouffer's Macaroni and Beef.
:American chop suey is a regional variation of Macaroni and Beef which is prepared with Worcestershire sauce and often eaten with Worcestershire Sauce or Parmesan cheese as a condiment. It seems to be a New England recipe. From personal experience, I know that this particular recipe is at least 40 years old. I don't doubt that there are equally venerable variations.
::There are many variations, as suggested by <a href="http://www.ochef.com/386.htm">this page</a>.
::Mohanchous (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would go with Chili Mac. If it's good enough for the army, its good enough for Wikipedia . FiveRings (talk) 18:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I've lived in New England all my life (30 years), and my parents and grandparents have lived in New England all their lives (60 years and 90 years, respectively), and all of us -- and everyone we know -- have always referred to this dish as American Chop Suey, and none of us -- and nobody we know -- has ever heard of anything called chili mac.  My grandmother has been making American Chop Suey since the 1920s.  Clearly it's not something new. Just because the commercial (and military) versions of this dish have different names doesn't mean that those names are original.  We should be striving for accuracy, even if that is "confusing to people from different regions." —BMRR (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

text: I Googled American Chop Suey and there are literally tens of thousands of references to it. —BMRR (talk) 22:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Like I said, "American chop suey" gets 118,000 google hits, and "chili mac"/"chilimac"/"chili-mac" gets 434,000. FiveRings (talk) 04:11, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but I think they're two separate dishes.  I've never seen an American Chop Suey recipe that had chili in it, or anything chili-related (chili powder, chili sauce, chili peppers, chili spices, etc.).  The chili mac recipes I've seen all seem to contain chili powder or some other chili element -- something you would never find in an American Chop Suey recipe.  I really think they're different dishes and that someone somewhere along the way thought that they were similar and then decided that they were one in the same, when in fact they're not. Therefore, my suggestion would be to start a new article for chili mac, and remove any references in the American Chop Suey article about it being another name for chili mac, when in fact the two dishes are not the same. —BMRR (talk) 04:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Similarly, I've never seen worchester sauce in Chili Mac, so I agree. Cooks.com, my preferred recipe source, has two different entry lists. FiveRings (talk) 05:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: Is there another picture of American chop suey that we can use? It doesn't really look like chop suey. Xin Jing (talk) 23:00, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Chop Suey Photo