The Collaborative International Dictionary
mulligan \mulligan\, mulligan stew \mulligan stew\n.
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A stew made typically of meat, vegetables, and any conveniently available ingredients; also, an Irish version of burgoo.
Syn: Irish burgoo.
(Golf) In informal and friendly games of golf, a permission to take another stroke without counting the previous stroke against the score, when a stroke was poorly played; a free stroke; as, to take a mulligan.
Wiktionary
alt. A stew made of whatever ingredients are handy and appropriate for stew, rather than of specific ingredients. n. A stew made of whatever ingredients are handy and appropriate for stew, rather than of specific ingredients.
WordNet
n. Irish version of burgoo [syn: mulligan, Irish burgoo]
Wikipedia
Mulligan stew is a dish said to have been prepared by American hobos in camps in the early 1900s.
Another variation of mulligan stew is "community stew", a stew put together by several homeless people by combining whatever food they have or can collect. Community stews are often made at " hobo jungles", or at events designed to help homeless people.
Mulligan Stew was a children's educational program, sponsored by the 4-H Council and shown both in schools and on television. It was produced by Michigan State University and premiered in 1972 during National 4-H Week in Washington, D.C. The show was named for the hobo dish (and also for the initials of Michigan State), and each of the six half-hour episodes gave school-age children information about nutrition.
Produced by V. "Buddy" Renfro, Mulligan Stew featured a multi-racial group of five kids: Maggie (Sherry Wright), Mike (Steven Einbender), Micki (Mion Hahm), Manny (Benjamin Sands), and Mulligan (Larry Friedman), plus one adult, Wilbur Dooright (played by Barry Michlin, who later had a minor career in movies and TV). The group went on nutritional adventures around the globe, although the series' filming usually stuck close to Lansing, Michigan (the opening sequence was filmed in MSU's football stadium.)
School packages included a companion comic book with further adventures of the characters, reviews of things learned from the show, and lyrics to the show's songs (performed by The Stews, a band comprising the five kids in the program).
The show was noted for the key phrase "4-4-3-2" that was often invoked to refer to the USDA's then-recommended number of daily servings of the " Four Food Groups" — "fruits and vegetables," "breads and cereals," "milk or cheese," and "meat, fish or fowl." Thanks in part to the popularity of "Mulligan Stew", 4-H membership was boosted to an all-time high in 1974, and it remained on the air (in reruns) until 1981.
Mulligan Stew is a postmodern novel by Gilbert Sorrentino. It was first published in 1979 by Grove Press, simultaneously in hardcover and softcover.
The book is a metafictional and parodistic examination of the creative process of writing a novel and its failing. It is dedicated to Brian O'Nolan and his "virtue hilaritas".
The title is a direct reference to the hodge-podge nature of the food. More cryptically, it is a punning allusion ("Mulligan's too") to the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce Ulysses.
The name Mulligan Stew or similar may represent the following:
- Mulligan stew (food), a hobo dinner dish
- Mulligan Stew (novel), a novel by Gilbert Sorrentino
- Mulligan Stew (TV series), a children's educational television series produced in 1972
- Mulligan's Stew, a 1977 NBC sitcom, starring Lawrence Pressman and Elinor Donahue
Usage examples of "mulligan stew".
It's mulligan stew if you want to fix the daily, and I've a mind to make bread-and-butter pudding, so you can add that as well.
All the styles the architect had mixed up in this Mulligan Stew of a building have blended at last.
The men fed him a big bowl of the mulligan stew they were eating, gave him a slug of what he presumed to be highly unofficial whiskey to wash it down, and plied him with questions about the general whose signature he flourished.
In the pot was some mulligan stew left over after everybody had eaten their fill out of old tin cans and assorted metal objects beaten into the shape of plates and cups.
Charley always kept a big pot of mulligan stew going on the stove, and you could help yourself.