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Search Scott Loftesness Lifelong Learning Menu Portfolio Kitchen Inspiration About Cool Tools Now Search Search for: Close search Close Menu Portfolio Kitchen Inspiration About Cool Tools Now Instagram Twitter Facebook LinkedIn WordPress Categories Food and Drink Living Memories The Sloppy Joe Post author By Scott Loftesness Post date January 7, 2025 No Comments on The Sloppy Joe The Sloppy Joe sandwich is a true American classic, with its signature blend of seasoned ground beef in a sweet-tangy tomato sauc
My own memories of cafeteria Sloppy Joes are vivid. The plastic trays, the scratched compartments, and that impossibly orange-red mixture. The cafeteria ladies would scoop the steaming mixture onto those ordinary buns with a scoop, creating a precarious mound of meat that we all knew would usually end up dripping on our shirt, no matter how carefully we ate.
The Sloppy Joe had a unique distinction: the school cafeteria version was the ultimate version. It’s the one that stuck in my mind. No matter how many fancy interpretations chefs have tried over the years, nothing quite captures the essence of this messy sandwich like that institutional preparation that fed me and many other millions of American schoolchildren.