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[edit] Loosemeat v. Sloppy Joe

The article almost makes it sound like a loosemeat sandwich (I'm familiar with it being called a looseburger or "loosie" in Michigan) is the same as a sloppy joe. It isn't. A looseburger is identical to a hamburger except that the meat isn't packed into a patty, it's shredded like taco meat.

I'm moving the references out of the section "variations of the term" and into their own section called "variants." If someone who never had a sloppy joe asked for a looseburger or loosemeat in the midwest, they'd get that hamburger-like sandwich and not a sloppy joe.

Jamesfett (talk) 03:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Difference

How is this different from a hamburger? --sin-man 05:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

it's not solid, and it's got lots of sauce? 66.56.145.43 22:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Lochbradan 18:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds to me like a "Sloppy Joe" would be described by your average "Brit" as a "Savoury Mince" sandwich - I can see where the "sloppy" comes from... Paul-b4 09:07, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

The difference between a Sloppy Joe sandwich and a hamburger is pretty much what user 66.56.145.43 described. The meat is not solid or compact and there is a tomato based sauce that keeps it together. That and adding things like lettuce or tomatoes isnt common at all. However, this is based off of the commercial version of the Sloppy Joe, what I am trying to do is to make the distinguish between the commercial version and the version offered in New Jersey. If you are asking about a comparison to that one, it is slightly more complicated then not solid and lots of sauce.

scaraghe

[edit] ketchup

Ketchup never touched my mom's sloppy joe sauce. She was an excellent Italian cook, so her Joe sauce was a slightly sweeter variation of her pasta sauce. Looking at recipes on the net, I see that most extant recipes do call for a quantity of ketchup, but there are some recipes without. I for one, don't think "flavored with ketchup" is a definitive statement, as it's presented here. Maybe "often flavored with ketchup?"Bustter (talk) 04:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Sloppy Joe" a pullover?

Does anyone have a source for this? I live in the UK and I've never heard the phrase "Sloppy Joe" used to describe an item of clothing. Is it purely a London thing, or an Aussie thing, or...? 217.155.20.163 15:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


I'm also from the UK and am pretty definite that's not a phrase that'd be used here. A costume website I came across (http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/party/guides/cowboy-party.html) claims that cowboys call their t-shirts 'Sloppy Joes', which sounds a bit more plausible. It does seem to be an Australian phrase (http://www.geocities.com/buddychai/Misc/AussieDictionary2.html) though. --Acamon 13:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


I don't know if this helps any, but I was looking in my English-Japanese dictionary hoping to find a Japanese description of the sandwich, but instead it describes a women's loose-fitting, heavy sweater which was popular in the 1940s. The dictionary is Genius Eiwa Jiten, 3rd edition, published by Daishukan Shoten. 218.182.11.94 09:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right! [1] Good find! Ex-Nintendo Employee 15:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I live in Australia and I've never heard the term Sloppy Joe used for anything. A sweater or any sort of pullover is called a jumper. Of course I haven't met all 20 million of us, so who knows. Seems suspect, though.Schaddm 06:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
where in Oz do you live? it might just be a NSW thing or possibly even just a country thing, who can say, but i know that its used where i live. WookMuff 03:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
My mum uses "jumper" to refer to knitted wool pullovers, and "sloppy joe" to refer to a pullover made from anything else. I think the term is falling out of popular usage though. Dazcha 08:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I live in Scotland and have called a jersey/pullover/white Tshirt a sloppy joe ever since I can remember. It's use as such has diminished in recent years so it is perhaps now dying as a description of these types of clothing. No reference to it's origin were ever passed on to me by my parents so I had always taken it for granted that it was a British idiom.

Yes a Sloppy Joe is an Austalian term for pullover, normally loose and often fleecy lined. Refence the Australian Macquarie Dictionary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reidjohnson (talk • contribs) 05:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Seeing as there is so much information about the Sloppy Joe Pullover, why doesnt someone just make a new page for it? I can add a "See Sloppy Joe Pullover" to the top to help out but I don't really know enough information about the pullover, so if someone wants to do that, it would be great. scaraghe —Preceding comment was added at 18:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Um, the picture of the Sloppy Joe and potato chips could really be any sandwich for all you can tell, as you can't see what's between the buns. The picture really oughta be replaced. ekedolphin 08:49, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

And the bun looks like it has been heated with a blow torch.Schaddm 06:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

It is a really bad picture that doesn't really help with a description of what the sandwich should look like. I'll try to fix that as soon as I can. scaraghe —Preceding comment was added at 17:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jersey Sloppy Joe

As a native New Jersian, I'm happy to see our Sloppy Joe represented here. However, I've never heard of one with turkey -- as far as I know they're always made with some kind of mammal, and usually bovine at that (either roast beef, corned beef, tongue, or other cow-meat). Can anyone settle this?

Menelaos 19:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's really nice to see it referenced here, because normally people will just look at you strangely. Livingston, represent! Aaaaanyway, I am pretty sure that I have had Jersey Sloppy Joes with turkey on them, but turkey would not usually be the only meat on there. --DavidK93 13:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TVP

Is it really necessary to say that the meat can be replaced with textured vegetable protein? This is true of any and every sandwich, and continues to appear on their articles by the dozen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 19:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)