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> On Sep 5, 3:19 am, "Giusi" > wrote:
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>>>Is it made with ground meat?
>>>Which meat and how is it cooked?
>>>Which ingredients along with the meat?
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>>> Vilco
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>>It's made with ground beef much in the way of a ragù but very sweet. A
>>cross between ragù and barbecue?
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> "Very sweet?" I'm glad I don't know how to make THAT kind of Sloppy
> Joe. I've never had one that was sweet, at all.
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> N.
> Compared to a good ragù it's sweet. Probably the barbecue factor. I think
> most Americans don't realize how sweet many of their foods taste because
> they're used to it.
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I would definitely describe your average sloppy joe, as served locally,
is awfully fricken' sweet.
One day the food service company at my son's school tried palming off
leftover sloppy joe meat for the next day's tacos and were nearly
lynched by outraged taco-loving middle-schoolers.