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Have I Been Making sloppy Joes This Whole Time?

Discussion in 'The Great Indoors' started by BrainScratch, Jun 14, 2013.

  1. So I like to make spaghetti bolognaise, to make the sauce I get mince, onions, garlic and the pasta sauce in a frying pan and cook it all up. So as I while was eating my spaghetti bolognaise; I was on facebook and  watched a vine where this guy compared instagram and vine and used a "sloppy joe" analogy. WHile watching the video I was like "hm, that looks awfully similar to my "spaghetti sauce" " so I googled spaghetti sauce and the wikipedia link says:
     
    " sloppy joe is a sandwich originating in the United States of ground beefonionstomato sauce or ketchup and other seasonings" which is pretty much what I've made...
     
    I thought I've been making spaghetti bolognaise this whole time, but have I actually been making "sloppy joes"?
     
    btw. I'm not american so that's why it came as a surprise to me.

     
  2. #2 aPersonUponaHill, Jun 14, 2013
    Last edited: Jun 14, 2013
    Sounds like it. My stomach turned at the thought of eating one of those sandwiches. You couldnt pay me to eat one of those anymore, after middle school I never had another. 
     
    Btw OP, I like what you called it far more than calling it a "sloppy joe". American culture is fragmented and most of us have none. 
     
  3. #3 BrainScratch, Jun 14, 2013
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    all these weeks, I thought I was making quality italiano :cool:  cuisine, but in reality I've been making a bastardized american form of it  :( you've never heard of "bolognaise" though?
     
  4. A sloppy joe is just a thick meat sauce sandwich.
     
  5. Sloppy joe is made with ketchup, you didn't use ketchup, much different.  Normal red sauce isn't sugary like a sloppy joe.
     
  6. I like to put sugar in my space to make it sweeter :huh:

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  7. Well then what you are making very well could be sloppy joe :laughing:
     
  8. Nah sloppy joe is a sandwhich, sounds like you made a pasta dish
     
  9. #9 BadKittySmiles, Jun 17, 2013
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    Well, a Sloppy Joe is actually a tomato and hamburger based sandwich served on a roll, seasoned with onions and assorted Italian herbs.
     
    A bolognese/bolognaise is a red tomato based sauce used for pasta, that generally should contain pancetta, or at least prosciutto or a bacon in order to be considered a bolognese, in addition to a usually hamburger-sausage blend, seasoned with onions, peppers and various herbs, and often finished with a parmersan blend. It was traditionally meant to be served with a broader fettuccine style pasta, called tagliatelle. Some modern cultures have simplified the sauce into a basic tomato-onion base which just includes hamburger. (The first recorded recipe, aside from pancetta, minced beef, onions and herbs, also contained carrot.)
     
     
     From the sounds of it, you've not been making sloppy joes or bolognese, but more a basic beef marinara sauce. :)
     
  10. Yeah basically all red italian sauces are the exact same thing with slightly different combinations of meat/veggies/seasonings.
     
    And like somebody said a Sloppy Joe is a sandwich.  Spaghetti Bolognese is a pasta dish.
     
  11. SHLOPPY JOES
     
  12. I make my sloppy joes with ketchup sweet baby rays BBQ sauce an brown sugar an of course ground chuck
     
  13. You're missing the bread, but even if you were, there's no shame in that brother! :D
     
  14. ...I dare say the basic recipe for spaghetti bolognaise has been around a damn sight longer than 'sloppy joes'...
     

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