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I knew a girl called Sloppy Jo. She had appalling table manners.

bob were from the same ends lol

its a sloppy joe ---t-shart

pullover is a jumper

pumps are plimsols that come to you ankcal

hmmmmmmmmmmm

"American style food - Denny's, Castles, Ruths, TGIF is far from pervasive in the UK. Most popular are pizza ( not the US style deep crust ) , hot and spicy Asian food , Chinese, TexMex. At least two burger chains have gone bust in the last year. "

Last time I looked (online), hamburgers were all over the place, pizzas, American style (NOT the deep crust kind), were all over the place.

Macdonalds were so pervasive you could hardly move. The only place that was worse in terms of quantity was Starbucks.



BYW ...............

I've heard of Denny's, it's hanging in up here

I've heard of TGIF, never been to it.

Castles & Ruths??? Never heard of either of them.




Did you know Wendy's was the first American burger bar in the UK ........... opening in the early to mid-1960s.

Again, they're hanging in up here

American style food - Denny's, Castles, Ruths, TGIF is far from pervasive in the UK. Most popular are pizza ( not the US style deep crust ) , hot and spicy Asian food , Chinese, TexMex. At least two burger chains have gone bust in the last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8

In London if you don't mind crossing the river there are lots of places selling / serving Afro and Caribbean food and ingredients which is v tasty but you need to be ok with chillis and so on.

I have never heard the term "sloppy Joe" applied to anything in the UK but have heard it used of low quality fast food in the USA. Baggy sweaters are currently in style or rather were before the current hot weather hit.

US agriculture can only be described as a major ecological disaster zone. Much of Trump's ire against Canada is rooted in the country's determination not to give in to US agribiz. Good for them.

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.

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?

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.

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!!!

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

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

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

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 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

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

Can't think why! :-S

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

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