They served it last week at the restaurant in dad’s senior living place. I saw a,lot of people ordering it, including me.
Hah! I bet you’re the type that puts it on bread or (worse) hamburger buns.
Hey, my daughter puts sloppy Joe mix on a package of split Hawaiian rolls. Heat in the oven, with cheese added if you’re so inclined.
Boy the kids can reduce that to nothing quick like.
McCormick Seasoning mix for Sloppy Joes is pretty good. It’s about $1.75.
Add the ground beef.
Certainly not to you!
As it’s sizzling in the pan, I add black pepper and a generous amount of yellow mustard.
Mom was feeding 8-10 kids with the take-home pay of (at best) a foreman at the telephone company. Manwich wasn’t in the budget (but at Thanksgiving and Christmas there was real butter). We’d have Sloppy Joes on occasion, and we probably had a better meal than did the kids who got Manwich.
I never noticed that Manwich is unusually sweet but although it is not quite bar-b-que it is certainly barbecueish. It’s supposed to be sweet.
The few times I made actual Manwich sloppy Joe’s for my kids I added “love”.
‘Cause that’s always a good flavor! 
I would! That actually sounds pretty good.
I’ve been known to shake some Louisiana hot sauce onto my sloppy joes from time to time as well.
Jeez, 31 posts and not a single reference to Hermes Conrad? What kind of pitiful excuse for nerds do we have around here?
I don’t, I think the Manwich formula right out of the can is pretty good.
Inspired by this thread, I picked up some Manwich on a recent trip to the supermarket. I also got some ground beef and some crusty rolls. Yep, I made some Sloppy Joes.
No additives of any sort. Just cooked ground beef, drained, with Manwich added and mixed in. Served open-face, and eaten with a knife and fork. Perhaps not traditional, but trying to eat them like a burger would have made too much of a mess that I did not feel like cleaning up.
First impression was that the Manwich was indeed sweet. But it was just as I remember; as I said previously, I came to Sloppy Joes later in life, so they were just as I remembered them twenty years ago, when I was introduced to them. I ate half of what I made, and kept the rest for later in the fridge. “Later” came a few days later, when I couldn’t resist. In short, I quite liked Sloppy Joes made with Manwich.
But I agree that it could use a little “tarting up.” Maybe not sliced celery, but certainly something to take the sweetness off. Maybe garlic powder, or minced garlic, or diced onions, or maybe just some fresh-ground black pepper, but while I don’t mind the sweetness, I can see where others would.
In any event, I enjoyed my recent experiment (thanks, all for the inspiration), and will do it again at some point soon.
One slice o’ onion would’ve perked it up nicely. (Ummm..pro-tip: put mustard on the bun)