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I'm about to make a trip to Clarinda, folks.

No, sloppy joes =/= maid rites.

Maid Rite is a brand and a whole different beast. They use incredibly finely chopped meat with very little else (the grease is all that flavors it). You put your ketchup on it, maybe a dill pickle slice, and eat up (with fries of course).

Sloppy joes are made at home from crudely ground beef and a can of Manwich (no substitutes allowed).

There was a Maid Rite in Ogden when I was growing up and that's where all the grandpas had coffee so I'd go with my grandpa. You don't disrespect them by calling them sloppy joes.
 

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Not all sloppy joes are not maid rites, but all Maid Rites are sloppy joes.

Completely disagree. If you want to say that a Maid Rite (loose meat sandwich) can become a Sloppy Joe by adding sauce, I can get behind that. But by definition a Sloppy Joe has tomato sauce/paste/whatever. A Maid Rite sans-sauce is never a sloppy joe.
 

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I'm about to make a trip to Clarinda, folks.

No, sloppy joes =/= maid rites.

Maid Rite is a brand and a whole different beast. They use incredibly finely chopped meat with very little else (the grease is all that flavors it). You put your ketchup on it, maybe a dill pickle slice, and eat up (with fries of course).

Sloppy joes are made at home from crudely ground beef and a can of Manwich (no substitutes allowed).

There was a Maid Rite in Ogden when I was growing up and that's where all the grandpas had coffee so I'd go with my grandpa. You don't disrespect them by calling them sloppy joes.

To be completely fair, the original question from the pod was between loose meat sandwiches and sloppy joes, but then quickly made the switch to Maid Rites.
 

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My grandma called this type of sandwich a barbecue, despite there being no BBQ sauce in her recipe.

I do like her recipe much better than the standard Manwich version.
 
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The “sauce” in a maidrite is basically hamburger grease.

The sauce in a sloppy joe is tomato based.

They call them taverns in northwest Iowa. Not sure if they mean maidrites or sloppy joes though.
 

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To be completely fair, the original question from the pod was between loose meat sandwiches and sloppy joes, but then quickly made the switch to Maid Rites.
Loose meat sandwich is the generic term for what Maid Rite serves.