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#210463 - 04/16/13 06:36 PM Nice Nelly
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Posts: 2 Having six hungry mouths to feed on a limited budget, my mom often served Sloppy Joes as a cheap and popular meal. However, my aunt took a somewhat antipodean approach to the same meal. Since she could not stand anything messy, including food, she served us Neat Nancies when we showed up for dinner. Nary a morsel of beef nor a molecule of sauce was allowed to escape the bun. For some strange reason, the Sloppy Joes always tasted better.
#210465 - 04/16/13 07:27 PM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Chris Lumpkin]
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Netherlands, the Hague Makes me curious what a Sloppy Joe contains. Of course I could look it up but that would mean end of conversation. Neat Nancy does not appeal much to the imagination.
#210469 - 04/16/13 10:48 PM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: BranShea]
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Alaska Ground beef, often sautéed with onions and peppers, mixed with a tomato (often ketchup-based) sauce, perhaps some brown sugar and additional spices; served as a sandwich on a hamburger bun or something similar. Almost impossible to eat without wearing some of it. Very messy. A standard menu item in the US school lunch program in the 1950s and '60s. Maybe it still is.
#210471 - 04/16/13 10:52 PM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Tromboniator]
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Land of the Flat Water Using "Manwich" and ground beef, they are an easy
supper or lunch. I eat them often and use bread
if no buns are handy.
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#210473 - 04/17/13 12:01 AM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Chris Lumpkin]
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Vermont They also are called by many names, depending on where you are in the US. ON the Great Plains alone, I have heard Sloppy Joe, Tavern, Barbecue, Manwich (a commercial name), and another which is escaping me at the moment!
What about your neck of the woods?
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#210486 - 04/17/13 07:44 PM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Tromboniator]
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Netherlands, the Hague Thank you mr.Trom. I'll stick to toast and Tasty Tom.
#210491 - 04/18/13 08:35 AM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: BranShea]
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Alaska You may be onto something there.
#210525 - 04/19/13 09:08 PM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Tromboniator]
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Netherlands, the Hague Not much, simply a tastier tomato. :))
#212237 - 08/22/13 03:12 AM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: Chris Lumpkin]
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Posts: 1 The most fascinating thing in relation to school lunches:the renowned 'Mystery Meat'...what is even in that stuff? Horse meat?
#212241 - 08/22/13 07:41 AM Re: Nice Nelly [Re: EnhanceEeryHilt]
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Alaska At nearly 50 years past public school lunches, I find it still a mystery. And they're still serving it.
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