Image from WikipediaIn the United States a Sloppy Joe is a dish of ground beef, onions, sweetened tomato sauce or ketchup and other seasonings, and served on a hamburger bun. Commercially made sauces such as Manwich are also available.
Sloppy Joes are simpler variant of barbecue sandwich which uses shredded beef or pork and barbecue sauce.
The name “sloppy” comes from the fact that eating it as if it were a normal sandwich often results in the meat and sauce spilling out. It may also be served “open face“, with the bun halves or slices of bread next to each other and the meat on top of each.
