Word: slumgullion
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...Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker...
...would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
Millions of pounds of tinned bacon ("sowbelly") went overseas, a welcome substitute for the "monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...