  a sloppy joe is a sandwich, originating in the united states, consisting of ground beef, onions, tomato sauce or ketchup, worcestershire sauce, and other seasonings, served on a hamburger bun. ingram, gaye g., labensky, sarah r., labensky, steven. websterâs new world dictionary of culinary arts 2nd edition. commercially made sauces are also available. ==history== early 20th century american cookbooks offer plenty of sloppy-joe type recipes, though they go by different titles: toasted deviled hamburgers,good housekeeping cook book, katharine fisher [1944] (p. 534), chopped meat sandwiches,young america's cook book, home institute of the new york herald tribune [1940] (p. 36) hamburg a la creole,prudence penny's cookbook, [1939] (p.67) beef mironton,the new butterick cook book, flora rose [1924] (p. 266) and minced beef spanish style.mrs. rorer's new cook book, sarah tyson rorer [1902] (p.157) marilyn brown, director of the consumer test kitchen at h.k. heinz in pittsburgh, says their research at the carnegie library suggests that the sloppy joe began in a sioux city, iowa, cafe as a "loose meat sandwich" in 1930, the creation of a cook named joe.the american century cookbook: the most popular recipes of the 20th century, jean anderson. references to sloppy joes as sandwiches begin by the 1940s. one example is a 1944 coshocton tribune ad under the heading "good things to eat" says "sloppy joes' - 10c - originated in cuba - you'll ask for more - the hamburg shop" and elsewhere on the same page, "hap is introducing that new sandwich at the hamburg shop - sloppy joes - 10c." coshocton tribune (coshocton, ohio), oct. 29, 1944, p. 11 the term "sloppy joe's" had an earlier definition of any cheap restaurant or lunch counter serving cheap food quickly, since 1940dictionary of american slang, wentworth & flexner, 2nd supp. edition, p. 488 or a type of casual clothing.advertisement, pittsburgh press. oct. 8, 1940 ==variations== several variations of the sloppy joe exist in north am
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