"Jen" > wrote in
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>> I can only eat a sloppy joe openfaced on a bun with provalone then
>> slop on top.
>>
>> Andy
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> I hate to sound really ignorant, but I don't even know what a sloppy
> joe is. But from what I just read I get the general idea. I'll have
> to try it one day.
>

I always find it funny that the term "sloppy joe" refers to a foodstuff,
because to me (and plenty of other Australians - though I'm not sure if
the term is used throughout the entire country) a sloppy joe is a fleecy
top, like a sweatshirt.

The first time I heard the term used for a food was on an episode of the
TV show Roseanne. The Roseanne character said something about spending
the whole day making sloppy joes, and my first thought was that I'd never
seen her sewing on the show <g>. It then turned out that it was actually
the dish she was talking about.

I suppose a sloppy joe would be a cousin to savoury mince on toast.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia