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Now As I am a bit ancient.....when I was a lad, a Sloppy Joe was a kind of Sweater/Tee shirt...

according to Tipping Point (celebrities) yesterday,

its a Hamburger....
???

Bob

We called those big bum warmer jumpers sloppy joes when I was a young thing ages ago ;-) :-D :-D :-D

that's more like it!!

My mum told me they were baggy jumpers ;-)

long way from being a hamburger though!!

It doesn't sound very appealing as a burger :-(
It sounds like most of it would end up in your lap!

No, Sloppy Joe used to drink next to me in the Tanners Arms :-)

'Ayds' - the much advertised slimming biscuits seems to have vanished without a trace, just like Shergar.

Can't think why! :-S

:-D :-D

Sloppy Joes are indeed a very messy meal...a runny burger if you please! Never had one nor served to my kids couldn't stand the mess :-D

Apart from the baggy jumper, the only other one I’d heard of was a variation on the beef burger. Not that I’d heard of the beef burger before now!

“Sloppy Giuseppe ...... is a flavour of pizza found primarily in the United Kingdom, made popular by the Pizza Express chain of Italian style restaurants. The name is an Italianisation of the Sloppy Joe, a type of meat sauce often served on a hamburger bun.”

It might have been folded in half to stop the sauce running off.

Sloppy joes were oversized baggy jumpers when i was a teenager in the 1950's

I always thought they were somehow connected to the GI,s who were in the uk in ww2

I live with a sloppy Joe :-D :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D :-D ;-) Choices <3

:-D :-D :-D @ David

Sloppy Joes late 50s early 60s were baggy jumpers. I had a second hand one given to me by my mum's friend, they were going out of fashion so her much older daughter ditched it. I wore it around the house, saved using my own clothes. I could wear it as a dress. :-D

yes DET that must've been the answer the researchers got for the program...
shook me cos I blurted out "TEE SHIRT"..and was gobsmacked at hamburger!!!

It's the difference between 2 continents

I grew up in the UK, and a Sloppy Joe was a loose baggy sweater. very popular in the 50s and 60s.

I came over here in the late 60s and a Sloppy Joe was a type of hamburger ..........

it seems it originated in the mid-West USA, a cafe owner made a loose meat hamburger (ie, meat not formed into a proper patty), then he added ketchup to eat so it became "sloppy" :-D


Therefore the correct answer depends on where the question is asked .... UK or North America


NOTE ............... the Sloppy Joe we knew in the late 60s had nothing to do with a pizza, it was a version of a hamburger.

thanks Sylvia,

it was a UK quiz program...so I would've expected the answer to be a UK based one, not a USA derivative?

well, perhaps by now, the Brits have forgotten all about the Sloppy Joe sweater, and been taken over by the American food :-D

I doubt that people under the age of 40, or maybe even 50, would even remember the sweater, yet American-type food is all pervasive all over the world.