salgud wrote:

> Rumor has it that they just appeared one hot August day in 1946, in a
> small Cambodian restaurant in S Philly down by 52nd and Market. It's
> considered doubly strange because there was no known hamburger within
a
> mile of the spot where it appeared, though there was tomato sauce just
> a few hundred feet away.


52nd and Market St. is NOT South Philly, rather West Philly. 5th or 2nd
and Market is STILL NOT South Philly.

My guess is somewhere, when some meatballs fell apart in a meat sauce,
it got slopped on a bun for no other reason than to salvage a disaster.
Somebody who had to eat it probably took a long look and said "pretty
sloppy, Joe!"

I can only eat a sloppy joe openfaced on a bun with provalone then slop
on top.

Andy