"sloppy joe" news and stories

I'm off to Camp Tockwogh this weekend, trying to squeeze every last moment out of this final weekend of summer. One of the lovely things about going to camp is that I don't have to think about what to cook, instead eating whatever is presented to me at those fast-paced and slightly chaotic family-style camp meals. I took this picture of a sloppy joe last summer and I'm hoping to have another one of these, along with a greasy grilled cheese and at least one gooey s'more before I head home to Philly on Monday afternoon.

Happy holiday weekend, everyone!

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When I first laid eyes on a Sloppy Joe, I was about 5. I had no idea what it was and my parents had certainly never tried to serve one to me. A Sloppy Joe is essentially ground meat cooked in a skillet with a tomato based sauce and tastes more like a chopped up hamburger drowning in ketchup than the pasta-topping meat sauce it is related to. In fact, I'm fairly certain that the first one I ever had was simply ground meat in ketchup - a combination likely to win the heart of any 5-year-old. Another big selling point was the fact that it made for messy eating, hence the name.