Slumgullion

The name "Slumgullion Pass" came about because the color of the sliding mud reminded local gold miners of the muddy sediments, called slumgullion, in their sluice boxes. ❋ Rick Spitzer Vail, CO Colorado (2009)

Station food isn't merely bad; it's condemned army bacon and "slumgullion," a concoction that "pretended to be tea" but contained "too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind ... to deceive the intelligent traveler." ❋ Stefan Beck (2007)

•Kathy Eaton of Booneville, Miss., recalls a cast-iron-skillet-style potato dish called "slumgullion," or so she thinks, after watching an old episode of Gunsmoke, which she learned from her father, "who would be 103 this year. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With a mocking gurgle, about a dram of "slumgullion" passed into his mouth. ❋ Henry Wallace Phillips (1899)

His breast, legs, and feet -- when not reddened by "slumgullion," in which he was fond of wading -- were white. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

A few days after Raintree took it over, he was lookin 'round the garden, which old Sobriente had always kept shut up agin strangers, and he finds a lot of dried-up' slumgullion'* scattered all about the borders and beds, just as if the old man had been using it for fertilizing. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

The saturated red soil overflowed the brim with that liquid ooze known as "slumgullion," and turned the crystal pool to the color of blood until the soil was washed away. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

His fondness for paddling in the ditches and "slumgullion" at one time suggested a water spaniel. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

A dank, fresh-fishy smell pervades the atmosphere; and such houses as were open to public view bore evident signs of inundation on the walls and 'slumgullion' on the floors. ❋ Unknown (1862)

"slumgullion" isn't a complimentary reference to goulash, you can move on to calling Rep. Murtha a "swag-bellied wagtail"! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Throw in the local color, wads of it, and a bit of sentiment perhaps, but no slumgullion about political economy nor social strata or such stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brown eyes, she concluded, and handsome as the male's should be handsome; but she noted with surprise, when she refilled his plate with slumgullion, that they were not at all brown in the ordinary sense, but hazel-brown. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Spargo hires the bum to write a sketch, nothing "high and flighty philosophi-cal," he says, "no slumgullion about political economy nor social strata or such stuff," but "concrete, to the point, with snap and go and life, crisp and crackling and interesting ..." ❋ Unknown (2008)

But this heartfelt and anguished novel's leap into the supernatural it comes late and abruptly, on page 185 knocks its emotional center from the realm of indissoluble cause and effect into a slumgullion of Carrollian metaphysics that goes nowhere. ❋ Gregory Feeley (2009)

This is American eclectic music, a '90s analogue to the genre-smooshing slumgullion of Bob Wills, Elvis Presley or Bob Dylan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There's nothing as gloriously off the hook as the SWAT member who dons a dancer's tutu at the worst possible moment in Bruno Mattei's HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) or the flying/biting head of the Mattei-Fulci-Fragasso slumgullion ZOMBI 3 (1988) but I do appreciate DAY OF THE DEAD '08's attempts, however maladroit, to change up the zombie SOP. ❋ Arbogast (2008)

Blog posts and news reports all mixed together... slumgullion-like: ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

Conspicuously missing from yesterday's slumgullion: Stephen at Planet of the Blind briefly reviews the movie by David Lynch and how it addresses questions in the news lately about disabled folk and the medical community. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

"[whatcha] got t'eat?" "[I can] make [us] a slumgullion!" ❋ FN64GR (2006)

Lets go to Mcdonalds for lunch. "[Fuck it], I'd rather [eat the ass] out of a [dead skunk] than that slumgullion ❋ Thepope (2004)