# Sloppy Joes- what's your recipe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638 "2011-02-08T12:37:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/41 "2011-02-16T01:58:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > [Related thread from last week.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=596341) Well I’ll be damned. I didn’t even occur to me that it’d be a recent topic. Kinda creepy. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/42 "2011-02-16T02:05:42Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Well I’ll be damned. I didn’t even occur to me that it’d be a recent topic. Kinda creepy. Well, you’re supposed to be all-knowing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/43 "2011-02-16T02:22:56Z")
I bought a packet of something called “Sloppy Joe” which called for a can of tomato paste. It was just OK for filling up the stomach, it tasted too much like bad spaghetti sauce. I’m sticking with good ol’ Manwich. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/44 "2011-02-16T02:37:29Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Well I’ll be damned. I didn’t even occur to me that it’d be a recent topic. Kinda creepy. It’s funny how the SDMB works. More than once have I gone to the SDMB with a question floating around my head, and finding someone had just started a topic about it. Creepy, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/45 "2011-02-16T02:39:22Z")
This may be the only place in the world where people unironically object to putting ketchup on french fries, or refer to sloppy joe purists. I love this board. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/46 "2011-02-16T02:42:11Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I bought a packet of something called “Sloppy Joe” which called for a can of tomato paste. It was just OK for filling up the stomach, it tasted too much like bad spaghetti sauce. I’m sticking with good ol’ Manwich. That’s part of the reason I actually prefer ketchup/chili sauce (or at least tomato sauce cut with ketchup) in this instance. Tomato sauce on its own is just too bolonaise-like for me. There’s something about ketchup/chili sauce that gives it the right tang and consistency for Sloppy Joes. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/47 "2011-02-16T03:23:16Z")
Ground beef, onion, tomato soup, Heinz chili sauce, ketchup. Brown the beef (lbs) and onion. Put in a can of tomato soup, a bottle of chili sauce and 14 ounces of ketchup. Simmer an hour or so. It’s pretty good. I guess if you like green pepper you can add it, but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/48 "2011-02-16T04:26:38Z")
What’s interesting for me is that it had never even occurred to me, before this thread, that the base of a sloppy joe sauce could be anything other than ketchup. When I was a kid, Mom would make them with just meat and ketchup, and occasionally relish, and I just built from there. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/49 "2011-02-16T05:24:46Z")
When I was young, I discovered that leftover taco meat and ketchup do _not_ make good sloppy joes. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/50 "2011-02-16T05:57:28Z")
I make mine with ground beef, onion, ketchup, and brown sugar. I like it more sweet than tomatoey, and I hate Manwich. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/51 "2011-02-16T07:32:59Z")
I use a variation on the [Pioneer Woman’s recipe.](http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/04/sloppy-joes/) I cut down on the spices a bit, and I drop the green peppers because I don’t tolerate them well (they make me burp like a maniac). This isn’t the quickest recipe out there but my lord is it good. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sloppy-joes-whats-your-recipe/570638/52 "2011-02-16T12:31:22Z")
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