School Cafeteria Sloppy Joe from the 1980s & '90s

[sl8]

This video covers the ambiguous history of the Sloppy Joe, along with the recipe, cooking and taste test of the typical school version.

19:47 min.

YouTube / Tasting History with Max Miller

Very interesting channel (most of the recipes are far older than this one). More of his videos:
https://m.youtube.com/@TastingHistory/videos

[Phoenix61]

1. I had taco sloppy joes for dinner last night. nt

[mwmisses4289]

2. Love Max Miller!

His making of garum video is fantastic. His school pizza show is also a good one. There are several shows similiar to Max- Sohla is one, she looks for the oldest version of a recipe (one was a nettle soup from when humans still lived in caves), and of course, Townsend is another: he focuses mostly on recipes from the 1700-1800, usually around the American revolutionary war era.

[sl8]

4. Thank you.

I was familiar with Townshend's videos, but not Sohla's. Will add them to my list.

[rsdsharp]

3. I graduated high school in 1972. My high school hot lunch menu always had two choices:

The entree of the day, or sloppy joes. The sloppy joes weren’t very good, but they were often better than the other choice.

Lunch shouldn’t be a choice of the lesser of two evils. My senior year I usually just went to the library and read a book.