Here is something that has been on my heart for a number of years now. What is it with sloppy joes eaten as a regular sandwich? That’s just wrong!
Today at work some of the guys brought in sloppy joes and we ate them at break. I’m the only open-facer there! We did the same thing several weeks ago for our buddy’s last day, and Craig looked over at me and said something to the effect of “Tom’s an open-facer!”
I said, “Of course, the meat/bread ratio is much better.”
It’s incomparable, in fact. Pile the meat on each half of hamburger bun, see if you can hide the fact you have any bread at all! That’s about right.
Sloppy joes are a popular menu feature when feeding a large group. But unfortunately, the people in charge often make them up for you, they don’t usually just set out a pile of buns and a tub of meat. They take one side of a hamburger bun and dab a smidge of meat on it, then completely conceal it by slapping the other half on top. Then you’re left to choke down a dry, harsh, caricature of a sloppy joe.
This especially happens out here in Indiana. Maybe I’ve been sent as an Open-Faced Evangelist.
7 Responses
March 19th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
I think this is just a case of the west vs. the east. We out here in utopia know that of course you put meat on each bun!!!
March 19th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
That’s part of it, yes, but the west coast isn’t free of this plague! You will occasionally see it there in the mass group feeds I talked about.
March 19th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
I have noticed that out West! You open-facers are just completely messed up. You have to make a sandwhich, pile it full of meat and then attempt to eat it as a sandwhich without getting it all over yourself. Hence the name “SLOPPY Joe”. It’s more fun.
-Shelley
March 19th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Ok Shell, now that’s fine if you want to do that since you still want a bunch of meat on it. But the heart of the crime here is when the sandwich approach is seemingly used to minimize the meat as much as possible!
March 19th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Yeah,thats how they should be- as much meat as possible no matter how you do the bun!
Lavern
April 1st, 2005 at 9:39 am
I have seen another way in the southwest. They put a piece of bread on a plate and then spread a little meat over it as if it were gravy and then procede to cut it with a fork and take small dainty bites.
February 24th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
[…] No, of course not. I actually view Indiana with a benevolent fondness. It’s just fun to ridicule a little bit, there’s so much fodder! The weather, the nickname, the backwardsness, the winters, the awful drivers, Notre Dame, the potholes, the summers, non-open-faced sloppy joes, the flat landscape, the mud, the animosity towards Daylight Savings Time. […]