Many of you, on past voyages, fighting the enemy, lived on burgoo and molasses only, with rum and foul water to drink.
"No Defense, Volume 2."
Gilbert Parker
We've brought lots of lunch, and I'm sure there is enough of Percy's burgoo, or whatever it is, to feed a regiment."
"The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine"
Katherine Stokes
But Zoroaster and Zendavesta didn't know that the Dramatic Editor of the Paducah Paper went to a burgoo Picnic the Day the Actors came to Town, and didn't get back until Midnight, so he wrote his Notice of the Night Owls' performance from a Programme brought to him by the Head Usher at the Opera House, who was also Galley Boy at the Office.
"Fables in Slang"
George Ade