Manwich

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Manwich is the brand name of a canned sloppy joe sauce produced by ConAgra Foods, Inc. and Hunt's introduced in 1969. The can contains seasoned tomato sauce that is added to cooked ground beef in a skillet. It is marketed as a quick and easy one-pan meal for the whole family.

Manwich Heat & Serve was introduced in 2004. It contains both the seasoned tomato sauce and ground beef in a microwavable bowl. The concept is similar to Easy Mac.

The phrase most commonly associated with this product is: "A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal."

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Manwich was also the pseudonym used by Mark Edge, a co-host of a libertarian talk show called Free Talk Live until May 18th, 2006.

"Manwich" is also a slang term for a sandwich with a great amount of filling.

On the show Futurama, Hermes Conrad and his son, Dwight Conrad, prefer Manwiches in their packed lunches. When Planet Express goes on a mandatory fishing trip, Bender grabs Hermes's Manwich for fishing bait. Hermes's response: "My Manwich!" His son exclaims the same thing when a bully throws his lunchbox into a minature black hole in the episode "The Route of All Evil"
On an episode of That '70s Show, Kitty Forman informs Hyde that "a sandwich is a sandwich but a manwich is a meal."

The rapper Erick Sermon raps about Manwich in the EPMD song, "You're a Customer": "I need a man meal sandwich, yes I need Manwich/I feel good, now it's time to do damage".

Also, fellow rapper DMX uses it in his song, "Born Loser": "But sometimes in the daytime I daydream of a Manwich / When all I'm really eatin is an oxygen sandwich / For those that don't know, thats 2 pieces of bread slapped together / Or I'll have a rain sandwich, depending on the weather".

Manwich is also the name of an obscene cartoon character created by the staff of Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television Lighting and Grip department.