By Stacey Little
Southern Bite
Many of us grew up having sloppy joes as a quick and affordable meal on busy weeknights. Mom would open up that can of sauce and stir it into some cooked ground beef and supper was ready. It was easy and pretty dang delicious.
Now, while the canned stuff appeared on the market in the 1960s, folks had been making sloppy joes for nearly 30 years prior, according to some historians. As the story goes, sloppy joes were born when a cook named Joe at a Sioux City, Iowa, cafe added tomato sauce to his loose meat sandwich recipe.
Now, I’ve probably eaten umpteen helpings of the canned stuff, but I like my sauce to be a little tangier. So I’ve been making them from scratch for quite some time. I even like to use the filling to make Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers. So it’s fair to say that I love me a good sloppy joe.
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