In which Tristan and I come to a culinary impasse

• Tristan: Calico bean hotdish; swiss steak; an ice cream bucket of chicken dumpling soup. . .
• Lo: I dont even know what a calico bean is? Is that a thing? And what's a swiss steak? Like steak with swiss cheese?
• Tristan: I need to culture you on midwestern rural Norweighian/German cuisine.