"Darkginger" > wrote in
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> I was meandering through an online menu (as you do) from Denny's Beer
> Barrel pub somewhere in PA, when I noticed 'sloppy joes' listed as an
> item. Obviously, every USian knows what these are/this is, but this
> Brit doesn't have a clue - anyone care to enlighten me?
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Take a spaghetti meat sauce (ground beef), a tomato based sauce. And add
serious amounts of ground beef to it. That's a basic description. Of course
there are other things in it...onions,mushrooms, spices etc. This is eaten
heaped over hamburger buns.

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