Mulligan stew

Community stews are often made at "hobo jungles", or at events designed to help homeless people.

Another has to procure meat; another potatoes; one fellow pledges himself to obtain bread, and still another has to furnish onions, salt and pepper.

If one of the men is successful in procuring "Java," an oyster can is used for a coffee tank, and this is also put on the fire to boil.

Incidentally, it may be mentioned that California hobos always put a "snipe" in their coffee, to give it that delicate amber color and to add to the aroma.

[5] A local Appalachian variant is a burgoo, which may comprise such available ingredients as possum or squirrel.