I sometimes think I could have been a chef with a specialty in creating drunk food.

Chop suey started off as a drunk food. San Francisco restaurants run by Chinese would have a drunk walk in late at night that was hungry so they'd chop up the leftovers, cook them up and serve it.

Seeing the cook chop everything up it got called chop suey. It was a mish mash and likely never prepared the same way twice.

Now, of course, there is a 'official' recipe for chop suey we get in Chinese restaurants. It's pretty much the same anywhere you go.

I have discovered a new recipe that is the epitome of drunk food, an incredible meal called a 'garbage plate' which is a regional thing of Rochester, New York.

It's basically a bunch of leftovers from  a barbecue dumped together and covered with a with a meat sauce of sorts. Leftover chili would probably do in a pinch.

There are times I really like slop like that.

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