Best sloppy joe I've ever had? ground beef, onion, dash (TBL) of sugar, tomato soup and cream of chicken soup. Yum.
Curious what other people call this sandwich:
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Could be coincidence but I have never enjoyed one when the maker calls it a sloppy joe. But have enjoyed a similar sandwich called by all of the other names. I do think the names and common recipes have a correlation so in general I wouldn't expect the exact same thing for each of the names.
This is correct. If you're calling the thing with sauce a Maid Rite, you were raised wrong.
this is how they are made in my family, with or without onions. We call them barbeques and I don't eat them because they are gross.
It's not a tavern without mustard and chili powder.
I'd lean towards a sloppy joe on that one. Taverns are a bit different than sloppy joes and maid rites.
I'd lean towards a sloppy joe on that one. Taverns are a bit different than sloppy joes and maid rites.
Where I grew up (Mitchell County) sloppy joe/maid-rite was used interchangeably for such a sandwich.
Where my wife grew up (Chickasaw County), it was called a tavern burger. Although it does seem that tavern burgers had a thicker spicier sauce, where sloppy joes/maid-rites were crumblier and just had some of the tomatoey component (like it had been made as a loose meat sandwich with a little ketchup mixed in).
Where my wife grew up (Chickasaw County), it was called a tavern burger. Although it does seem that tavern burgers had a thicker spicier sauce, where sloppy joes/maid-rites were crumblier and just had some of the tomatoey component (like it had been made as a loose meat sandwich with a little ketchup mixed in).
Maid rites & loose meat sammiches to me have always not had a sauce component.
I'm from Northwest Iowa, and the tavern was always a loose meat that also had sauce, but it had different spices than how most made sloppy joes.
Barbeques? Never heard of any sammich being called that.
Best sammich of this type - the Charlie Boy in Sioux City @ Miles Inn. They are a loose meat/maid-rite as they have no sauce, but they have a bite of spicy-ness. Also helps that the buns are steamed. Me likes steamy buns.
I'm from Northwest Iowa, and the tavern was always a loose meat that also had sauce, but it had different spices than how most made sloppy joes.
Barbeques? Never heard of any sammich being called that.
Best sammich of this type - the Charlie Boy in Sioux City @ Miles Inn. They are a loose meat/maid-rite as they have no sauce, but they have a bite of spicy-ness. Also helps that the buns are steamed. Me likes steamy buns.
For my fam a beefburger wouldn't involve a tomato based sauce. It would be a more bbq sauce based mixture. A sloppy joe and beefburger are 2 different meals on 2 different days of the week.
Pleny of right answers, only one wrong answer. Maidrite.
This is a brand name (unlike the others) This isn't debatable unless people also agree you can call anything you want a Big Mac. A Maidrite is a Maidrite just as a Big Mac is a Big Mac.
This is a brand name (unlike the others) This isn't debatable unless people also agree you can call anything you want a Big Mac. A Maidrite is a Maidrite just as a Big Mac is a Big Mac.
Growing up in NE Iowa at home it was a Maid Rite - even though I now know it is nothing like a Maid Rite. At school they always called them sloppy joes.
That sounds like a sloppy joe. To me a barbeque sandwich is pulled pork or roast beef with barbeque sauce. Don't think I ever had ground beef with BBQ sauce. A Tavern as described above (never heard of) sounds like it could be good. If you want a maid rite, go to Taylors in Marshalltown.
