# Goulash.  What's it to ya?

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**Created:** [January 24, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goulash-whats-it-to-ya/710762 "2015-01-24T16:21:57Z")\
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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> It appears to be a Midwestern thing. [Here is the Wikipedia on it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_goulash). I only know that I first learned of it from some folks from either Indiana or Ohio.

Yeah… I grew up eating the ground beef, tomatoes, and elbow macaroni version of “Goulash.” It wasn’t until my friend in college invited me to his parent’s house for some goulash that I found out my midwest raised, Swedish/French mother made something very different than my friend’s Hungarian born and raised parents did. Of course any home cooked meal tastes wonderful to a poor college student but this one I remember as amazing.

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