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Interesting learning moment this weekend. At work the office girls made what I call beef burgers, and my fiancee who stopped by said they were sloppy joes. I am from Iowa and she is from Michigan (originally).
Can someone tell me what the difference is? is it in the food or just name for different places.
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| IMO, sloppy joes, steamburgers, and wimpies are different terms for ground beef cooked and served with various amounts of sauce. Not a beef patty. A beef burger should be a solid ground beef patty before any sauce or condiments are added to it. |
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Mechanicville, NY | here, a beefburger is hamburger topped with a sauce, ie: Wimpy sauce. the best and only real Wimpy sauce on the planet is made in Ogdensburg, NY. OR a beefburger is topped with whatever condiments you like - BUT the meat is one solid patty. it is served on a hamburger bun.
a sloppy joe is hamburger and a sauce of some sort that is cooked together and is very loose in consistancy usuallyserved on hamburger buns. my friend in nebraska calls them "taverns". |
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Serena Il, Center of the Universe | When I lived in Sioux City Ia. they were called loose meats. |
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Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | |
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central - east central Minnesota - | Ya, I worked with a gal that made Maid Rit's or Maid Rite's when a company funtion allowed . . . she was from iowa, and that was their way of makeing sloppy joe's - plain crumble ground beef - cooked up then you add your favorite sauce/topping. Sloppy joe's generally have a tomato based sauce added to the mix when cooking . . . . |
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| You have not had a sandwich until you have had a Maid Rite sandwich. They are a national chain. http://www.maid-rite.com/ Of course in this area everyone knows about the Maid Rite sandwich shop in Greenville. Very dark red, lean meat that used to be obtained from 3 different local butcher shops, secret seasonings and some claim steamed in beer, and of course the infamous wall of gum at the drive through window. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYU6xooMcfA |
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| hmm, so it appears to me that a beefburger is a solid beef patty (aka hamburger), and a sloppy joe is loose ground beef with sauce. Sorry Bucky, I win :) |
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Michigan | Your Fiancee is right! You will learn - it takes practice. |
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Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | Yep, and if you're from the correct part of southeast Iowa, it comes down to a battle between MaidRites and Canteens. The Canteen is a tiny, tiny little diner in an alley in Ottumwa. There are about 14 stools at a lunch counter there, and all they serve is the sandwiches, soft drinks, and homemade pie. Natives that have moved away and come back to visit will stop in for a Canteen before they go see their Grandma. |
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| Those were invented about 15 miles from here by a guy in Muscatine, Iowa then franchised all over the midwest. Fred Angell I think, sometime in the 20's. At one time, most of the small towns around the area had a Maid-Rite Diner, now just a few but they are still around.
You've never craved anything until you have one of those!!! Put some cheese whiz on it and call it a cheese-rite... yum!
It's a secret, but we make something pretty close at home. Doesn't have beer it it, but it does have a touch of Coke (or so I've heard), browned then put in a steamer, served in it's own drippings. No Tomato paste/sauce/etc, at all just crumbled and seasoned meat. Just season it how you like, throw a couple pickles on it, a little mustard, ketchup, and serve on a bun.
Damm, now I want to run down there and get a sack full for supper!!!
Dave
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North Dakota | I grew up with sloppy joes, just ground hamburger/brown sugar bbq tom based sauce, then was told that they are called slush burgers. Guess it all is a matter of location! Also have heard them called BBQs... |
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North Central Iowa | This is the exact debate my fiance and I just had this weekend! I just recently moved to Iowa from Michigan and had never heard of a "beefburger" before we went to the church dinner this past weekend. I, too, call them sloppy joes! My fiance says a "beefburger is like a sloppy joe, but not so sloppy"! LOL |
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| Hey Iowafarmerswife, were are you located in NC IA, because after reading all these post i am starting to think it just a North central Iowa thing. And i am going to have to side with your fiancee on this one. |
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| We are near Sheffield. I just moved here a couple of weeks ago from Michigan. I showed my fiance (who was born and raised here) this and he did finally admit that when he was young they did call them "sloppy joes" in his house. lol |
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S.E. Iowa | I think all Hambergers were loose meat until White Castle came along , And I second the Canteen as having the best Loose meat sandwiches, It was the model for the old Roseann show on TV as Tom Arnold was a Ottumwa native |
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Watford City, ND | Sloppy Joe's Manwitch's Slush Burgers (very common in western ND) B-B-Q's (in certain resturants) Loose Meats |
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| Don't Forget Taverns. (apparently a North-East Nebraska thing) Where I am from they are Sloppy-Joes |
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