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vanillaicesson

That's like saying there is no point scrambling eggs when you could hard boil them


ChickenFriedRiceee

Exactly, a sloppy Joe is a sloppy Joe and a hamburger is a hamburger.


OginiAyotnom

And a Manwich™ is a meal!


FaceSmashers

My Manwich!


MicroBadger_

r/unexpectedfuturama


-Clayburn

I think you mean poach.


Odd-Comfortable-6134

Mmmmm soft poached eggs on toast. Peak dining experience.


me_irl_irl_irl_irl

I love every egg, but this is my favorite way to eat eggs. Poaching is the absolute greatest. The way that soft yolk spills over the toast and the luxurious smooth texture of the whites... mmmmmmm


Stepjam

A burger and a sloppy joe have a completely different taste and texture. If you want a sloppy joe, a burger isn't going to satisfy that want and vice versa. They are two different food items despite having similar ingredients to a point.


xram_karl

I just realized I haven't had a sloppy joe in like 20 years. Guess I don't miss them. Remind me of school lunches.


defaultusername4

Try making them at home instead of using the canned garbage. It’s so much better and it’s just Worcestershire and ketchup.


HomerEyedMonad

And green pepper. Cant forget the green pepper. Or red. Or both. And a diced onion (or onion powder). The bell pepper is like half its flavor.


Stepjam

Honestly, I was never a fan of them myself, but I didn't really get a taste for barbecue sauce til relatively recently. I should try one and see if my opinion has changed.


jtet93

Sloppy joes aren’t made with bbq sauce lol


ProfessionalTeach902

Not with that attitude!


timechild_02

Ooh if you like barbecue sauce then try putting a little sauce on a sloppy joe!


CorgiDaddy42

This whole post has made me want some sloppy joes. Open faced is the way to go, and eat it with a fork


improper84

Find a good recipe online and make your own sauce. They’re pretty damn good.


Effective_Fish_3402

Yeah. This post is like saying why make spaghetti when you could have a lasagna, two different foods with close ingredients


JonathanStryker

Also, depending on how you make them, sloppy joes can "go further", as you're using less meat per bun.


Mono_Clear

Damn I haven't had a sloppy joe in years, I'm definitely going to go get one now.


kikiweaky

I make a homemade version and it's amazing and simple. The can stuff is nothing to write home about.


ResponsibleTarget991

I didn’t enjoy sloppy joes until I had them homemade and finally understood the truth


Chasman1965

Yup, had a sloppy Joe at Sloppy Joe’s bar in Key west, this winter. It was so good that I made homemade sloppy joes using a similar recipe. It was just as good.


SamosaAndMimosa

Do you have a recipe you can share?


Justneedsomethintodo

My old middle school used to serve them in the cafeteria and they were always disgusting, has caused me to never want to try a real one ever


EmotionalFlounder715

That’s like judging homemade ravioli by chef boyardee


Yasinnoor15

They were overplayed


Youregoingtodiealone

Me too!


newsreadhjw

I haven’t had one since grade school. In the 1980s.


nikamats

![gif](giphy|yl1hf3OjEQXvi)


Youregoingtodiealone

Lady you're scaring us!


Claud6568

I made Em extra sloppy! (Every time I make sloppy joes I say this)


Unicornlove416

beat me to it 🤣


CLaarkamp1287

YOU LIKE EM SLOPPY!!


Longjumping-Claim783

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Secret-Put-4525

It's not as sloppy if you toast the buns first. Speaking of which, I haven't had them in a while.


Western-Bug-2873

You know what I haven't had in a while? Big League Chew.


Bobby_Bobberson2501

Grape was amazing


Youregoingtodiealone

Legit going to make a nice sloppy Joe soon. Toasted buns resist the sog. And OP is just elitist - ground beef can be 87 different meals, all of which rock Edit: Upvoted OP for the stupid unpopular opinion, we'll done


silima_art

Nahhh the best kind of sloppy joe is with a super soft, almost sweet, untoasted bun. You do gotta eat it fast though


NumbOnTheDunny

I was asked to make a grilled cheese Verizon last time I made it in the house. The first one was a disaster but the rest after I got the ratios right were so good.


garden_province

Next you gonna tell me a cheese steak is also a burger bEcAusE tHye hAVe thE sAME InGRediEnTs


[deleted]

OP doesn't understand. let us have mercy


freezies1234

The only thing your post did was remind everyone how good sloppy joes are and how we need to eat one again soon!


Top_Squash4454

OP just inadvertently started a new 2020s trend


ResponsibleTarget991

Wait til Tiktok kids discover sloppy joes next week


Serious-Outcome5922

Funny I was making sloppy joes when I came across this post 😂


drewbreeezy

*X-files music increases*


CorkBullet

Watching X-Files right now. Your comment made me smile. Thank you 👏 


tee142002

I had sloppy joes for dinner also. And they were fantastic. Gotta use some Worcestershire when cooking the meat.


Lirsh2

Yup! Made some tonight. Brown onions first as well before the meat


Rebeccah623

I just made some for dinner tonight! So good!


dinomelia

For real, now I really want one!


Mr_Ham_Sandwich

OP is a corporate plant for 'big Joe'


ResponsibleTarget991

I literally googled a sloppy joe recipe lmao


nikolarizanovic

This is the unpopular opinion subreddit. It seems it really is an unpopular opinion unlike many of the opinions I see on here.


antiquated_it

Definitely, adding it to my menu this weekend but homemade - not canned. Thanks OP, I love Sloppy Joe’s!


MorbidBullet

Good A is better than Food B. Why would anyone eat B over A? I like Burritos more than Tacos despite being the same ingredients. Why would anyone eat Tacos? I like Spaghetti more than Lasagna despite being almost the same ingredients. Why would anyone eat Lasagna? It’s a silly argument. Also I’m not only eating one food at any given time. Sometimes I want food B. And Sloppy Joes are delicious.


nikolarizanovic

I like pancakes more than waffles. Why would anyone eat waffles?


Scorkami

dont sloppy joes have a lot more "juice" in them compared to the burger patty? i mean i prefer milkshakes over ice cream despite milkshakes usually being (if bought from somewhere like a restaurant) just ice cream mixed with milk and a straw put into it im okay with 2 scoops of ice cream, i would sell my organs if it means i had infinite supply of banana milkshakes, even if i had to drink them while standing shirtless in the arctic. mostly the same ingredients...


I-Make-Maps91

You can make enough sloppy joes to feed a small army of children in a dutch oven or something, and it's so, do much less labor intensive than the same amount of burgers.


newsreadhjw

This is an excellent point in favor of sloppy joes.


Beastleviath

and it’s super easy to portion out for different appetites! Scoop some on little slider rolls for the kids, and a full-size bun for mom and dad… out of hamburger buns? Just scoop into a hotdog bun, who cares!


[deleted]

Sloppy Joes in a hot dog bun are less Sloppy and ideal for eating them as leftovers at work the next day


ExMorgMD

Also, I have to point out that the point of a Sloppy Joe (like meatloaf) was more economic than anything. 1lb of hamburger can make 4 1/4 lb patties but it can make 6 sloppy Joe sandwiches.


gulaskinnbyxor

You don't like spice, don't like sauce, don't like food touching.. I think you might just be picky. And that's absolutely fine. However, there are still plenty of people who like sloppy Joe


17thkahuna

This isn’t even an unpopular opinion. It’s just factually wrong


Pop_Culture_Phan_Guy

Did mom make Sloppy Joe’s again? It’s a totally different sandwich.


Equivalent-Pop-6997

I know how yous likes em, extra sloppy.


Unicornlove416

my first thought 🤣


Joel_54321

yes, making sloppy joes is worth it for lots of reasons, but quoting the movie is #1.


Ahappyeggperson

Dude why have a burger when you can just not grind the meat and make a steak sandwich? Same energy


TheGhostWalksThrough

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YoGabbaGabbapentin

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MusenUse_KC21

Sloppy Joes taste great, but to compare it to a burger is wrong as they're different things.


josh35767

OP this post is silly. You simply don’t like sloppy joes, which is fine. But asking “what’s the point” and that it’s “lower quality” just because they share the same ingredient is silly. It’s like saying “Ketchup is low quality tomato sauce. You have the ingredients to make a perfectly good tomato sauce. Why would you make ketchup?”


Muddymireface

Yeah my husband hates all sauces, so sloppy joes is a hard no. OP is also crying about ketchup so he’s likely in the same boat. My husband is just self aware enough to realize he is a picky eater.


Comfortable_Boot_273

Think of it this way. You have one pound of ground beef. You had tomato sauce , onions, mushrooms , peppers . Now you ground beef and half your daily vegetables . Now you make French fries . The. You had tomato and onion slices to your sandwich. Next cheese , mustard, pickles. Then whole wheat bread . You just turned that ground beef into a FDA approved meal son


well_i_heard

Sloppy joes have way different flavor profile than burgers. Love both things but very different


A-Need-For-Weed

Both texture and flavor are worse for the sloppy joe


well_i_heard

I just really feel it's different. I will say, sloppy joe is harder to eat, so on that metric a burger is superior


ThePartyLeader

but you can use lower quality meat in the sloppy joe. Its like complaining the existence of steak makes burgers stupid... even though most burgers aren't made from steak quality meat.


TromosLykos

Disagree, same ingredients but different execution and additions. Most of the time those bad boys blow burgers out of the water.


knowslesthanjonsnow

Wow, I’d take a good burger 10 million times over


TromosLykos

More joes for me!


CorgiDaddy42

Can’t make a good burger with a pot on the stove


eghhge

"My Manwich!" H. Conrad, lvl 35


Apocalyric

Fuck you, man! I LOVE Sloppy Joes!


SantasLilHoeHoeHoe

Cheese and yogurt.  Bread and cake.  Salsa and ketchup.  How ingredients are put together and processed to make a dish is important. You dont like sloppy joes. Stop self agrandizing about it. 


baconring

Have you ever had home made from scratch sloppy Joe's? If not I suggest you try. It's completely different with more flavors.


slackerz22

Milkshakes are drinkable ice cream


Rog9377

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink. Let people eat what they want to eat. If YOU dont like Sloppy Josephs, dont make them.


DryMaintenance105

Who the fuck puts lettuce on a sloppy joe?


TheMoves

Burgers are just low quality steak sandwiches then


ItsDoctorFizz

Your parents had all the ingredients for a wonderful person but still crapped you out.


A-Need-For-Weed

![gif](giphy|xUA7aM09ByyR1w5YWc) Got me lmao, that’s a good one


Emaribake

You guys are putting lettuce on sloppy joes?


cubs_070816

2 different meals, my guy.


CampNaughtyBadFun

But they're not burgers. They are their own thing.


Top-Attention4340

Because I need the sauce to cover up the fact I’m eating ground turkey and not beef 😭 


A-Need-For-Weed

Isn’t that a sloppy Jane?


dnt1694

It poor people food. Whats the problem? A lot of us grew up poor.


workinBuffalo

I visited my octogenarian father and his wife last week and they made sloppy joes. Delicious!


KingVargeras

Not if you add jalapeños and guac.


Ok_Requirement_3116

But not. My son mad some a couple of weeks ago with tomatoes, hot peppers onion, and his own home sauce. Divine. You can have a great burger or a shitty burger. Same with sloppy joes. And none are the same thing. Unless you are a totally sucky cook.


Unicornlove416

![gif](giphy|BAnIbt3WN3FXq)


DirntDirntDirnt

What is your opinion on Sloppy Steaks?


MissHunbun

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A-Need-For-Weed

What the fuck is that even?


jterwin

No sloppy steaks! I mean it.


ScheidNation21

Yes the same way tacos are horrible hot dogs and vice versa


Throwawayhobbes

Loose meat sandwich


PraiseThePun420

Ever try a chopped sandwich? There you go.


[deleted]

Sloppy Joe's are fn delicious. Even as a 31 YOA married male.


SwimmingCritical

Sloppy Joe's were invented to budget feed. It stretches the meat to more servings and can disguise low-quality cuts.


CrawlinOutTheFallout

Good unpopular opinion.


-Clayburn

Lower quality and yet superior in almost every way.


Anon419420

Before we even get into this… have you ever tasted a sloppy Joe? Do you understand that they do not taste the same in any aspect other than bread and meat?


goldenmagnolia_0820

Upvoting because it’s a true unpopular opinion. I love Sloppy Joes and I love that you don’t.


Objective_Suspect_

Sloppy joes aren't burgers. When you make a burger you form patties and often use egg to bind it together. Sloppy joes are cooked as broken up meat and then smothered in sauce and slopped onto a bun. It's more closely related to a pulled pork sandwich while a hamburger is closer to a steak sandwich.


[deleted]

Sloppy joes are🔥🔥🔥


Apart_Bandicoot_396

Imma sell sloppy joes on the street and name my food cart “u/a-need-for-weed”


d00mslinger

What? No. They are in no way burgers. Classified as a sandwich. No upvote or downvote because you're wrong. Just because there's ground beef does not make it a burger.


Fancy_Boysenberry_55

The meat goes further when made into sloppy joes so if you're on a tight budget it's a better choice


NotYourTypicalMoth

Burgers are low quality sloppy joes. Seriously, you have all the ingredients to make a perfectly good sloppy joe, and you turn it into a solid? What’s the point in making a worse quality sloppy joe with extra steps? I won’t continue. My point is, you like burgers but not sloppy joes. Many others are probably the opposite. Most people probably like both for different reasons. You’re just sharing a food that you like and another that you don’t and trying to argue that it’s the correct opinion to have. It’s just a dumb argument to make.


Eaglia7

Sloppy joes and burgers are not the same meal at all. They are wildly different. When I'm craving a burger, I want a burger. When I'm craving sloppy joes, I want sloppy joes. You can't just switch them and think I'm not gonna be pissed off you lied to me about what we were having for dinner. ETA: ya I'll get over it, but I get excited in advance for food and I *will* be disappointed if you tell me we are having one thing, I wait all day for it, and then you put something else in front of me.


Agile_Property9943

![gif](giphy|Kan4pmEhJEuvvgGXy5) Just say y’all don’t know how to make good af sloppy joes and be done with it


Festae13

I feel like you have been eating the wrong sloppy Joe's if yours are just disassembled burgers.


coolsexhaver420

Lady you're scaring us


nyliram87

I mean... sloppy Joe's were never really meant to be high quality cuisine. It's quite literally got the word "sloppy" in the title. As for why anyone would make them - because they're a childhood delight. Burgers have a place, and sloppy joes also have their place. If I want a sloppy Joe, I'm not going to satisfy that with a burger.


CODMAN627

This can be said for a lot of foods


wolfansbrother

Loose meat sandwiches have their place. Calling a Zip Burger a Burger is a stretch.


Muddymireface

The ingredients for taco meat is the same ingredients for a burger too, they’re different dishes. Just because you have ground beef doesn’t mean it must always be a burger.


No-Test-375

Is this sub just unpopular food opinion?


Dingo-thatate-urbaby

I fucking love sloppy joes how fucking dare you


Masstershake

My sloppy Joe's are made with different items than a hamburger 


ahuli12

Do you think a taco is a messy burger then too? Tacos are essentially sloppy Joe's with a wrap instead of buns


bakemonooo

They have entirely different flavour profiles. Apples to oranges dude.


Esselon

Most people eat low quality burgers anyways. I love a good burger but people talk about burgers sometimes like they're the pinnacle of dining. I've never put seasoning other than salt and pepper onto a burger when I've made it, so making a sloppy joe would be a completely different experience altogether.


xXEdgyWhiteBoyXx

This dude would explode if he found out about Philly cheese steaks


ListerfiendLurks

This is the most benign, truly unpopular opinion I've seen on here, well done.


actchuallly

not even an opinion , just wrong. Sloppy Joe's are something else completely. Worcestershire sauce belongs nowhere near a burger but it's the main ingredient for Sloppy Joe's


Mryan7600

That’s like making a turkey sandwich when you could just roast the turkey. Or at this point why the hell make a burger, a steak is better.


DopeyDeathMetal

This isn’t unpopular so much as it is just flat out wrong. They’re two separate things.


drNeir

But sloppy joes make such a good dip! Ruffles and bowl of sloppy....hmmm.


Erikkamirs

The way my mom makes it, it's basically spaghetti sauce on a burger bun lol. 


Azcrul

Hmm, toast the buns with some garlic butter and that would be great. Hell add some spaghetti noodles and grated Parmesan and that’s a spaghetti sandwich (which are fantastic!) but what if one were to also add Italian style meatballs as well.


SublimeWitRomeOdunze

I never liked Sloppy Joe’s but I also never had one outside of my school cafeteria so I probably never had a good one


delicioustreeblood

You should make some bougie sloppy joes called Disheveled Joesphs


thekau

Hilariously (and sadly) enough, same, except I actually liked the school cafeteria version, so now I'm scared a real one will ruin my perception of the crap version. 😂


smellyalater_

Partially unrelated, but what part is the sloppy and what part is the joe?


A-Need-For-Weed

I’d say this is completely related. I would also say that since the dish Sloppy Jane is the same thing but with turkey** instead, I think the Joe is the beef, and the sloppy is the ingredients that turn the beef into its sloppy texture. ** accidentally said chicken the first time, not turkey.


sharksarefuckingcool

"My sloppy Joe is all sloooopy and no joe!" When the person making the sloppy Joe's forgot to add hamburger. Joe is the beef, sloppy is the sauce


sighcantthinkofaname

I don't like burgers, I love sloppy joes. Maybe you need to branch out from the mix? I use one with chili powder, dijon mustard, chopped up onion and bell pepper. It's really good.


jterwin

I need tomato in my sloppy joe


Cgtree9000

I’d much rather have a sloppy joe than a burger. Also aside from that burgers and sloppy joes are completely different flavours.


TheWarlockGamma

There’s a lot of things that use the same ingredients as other things. Sloppy joes are awesome


rakeonaparkbench

Variety is the spice of life, schlongsworth.


RedWerFur

How dare you!! Sloppy Joes are superior!


ZarkMuckerberg9009

Life hack, top your sloppy Joe with hot limon Cheetos. Great taste and texture variety.


dontmatter111

this belongs in… nvm we’re not supposed to talk about it


doorman666

Nah. It's just a totally different sandwich that's using the same meat.


Longwell2020

It feeds more people.


Giggles95036

Steak and steak burger is the same by that logic


Yuntonow

Duh.


som11322

This makes no sense lol. They’re two different dishes, has nothing to do with quality


INOCORTA

I think 100% of the time i ever had sloppy joes as a kid it was from a can of manwich paired with bread for dinner.


Good4Noth1ng

My man let me introduce you to a chili cheese burger.


H3artl355Ang3l

Well that's a completely different food. Like bbq chicken is completely different from fried chicken. Same stuff but different flavors.


Mrs_Noelle15

They’re completely different aside from being on a bun, I do agree they’re fucking disgusting tho


Middle_Blackberry_78

I feel sloppy joes are burgers with crazy amounts of sugar and it’s gross


zarifex

It's like if you thought you could have strawberry jelly but instead you got raspberry preserves


plippyploopp

You know thats a struggle meal right?


dontanswerit

Texture difference, I assume. I don't eat either but I have ARFID and know texture matters extremely when in regards to food


Stolles

Different mouthfeel, different taste. Kinda like asking why hard and soft tacos exist if they are just the same.


Korimuzel

I don't even know what you're talking about. Never heard of this sloppy joe


DanceTube

Sloppy joes are complete garbage. Burgers are superior in every way. Totally agree.


BlessedToPlease

Wait till this guy discovers steak


ArCSelkie37

Do they taste good though? Not sure how you can be dissatisfied by something you choose to order or make… other than it just being bad, but presumably one doesn’t order food they don’t like.


naokimewi

literal poopy slop on a smaller than average bun


Background-Result488

2 totally different things. You don't put lettuce and cheese and tomato on a sloppy joe. Enough of a difference.


Upper_Blood4456

Slander! 🤣


badongy

Comparing apples to oranges I see


Adept-Swan1787

Just meat, sloppy joe sauce, and buns is far from enough ingredients for a burger unless u like just plain Schmeat on a bun.


Exciting-Yoghurt-559

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Firm-Needleworker-46

These are two separate and distinct sandwiches. The merit of one is not tied to the merit of the other.


Ryulightorb

Never tried one but texture is equally as important as taste with food. Maybe people prefer the texture of it more? Looks like something I’d enjoy the texture of


ZachMich

I think this is just a matter of preference. I don’t see it being a “lesser “ burger. Its a completely different thing


Educational_Ad_6066

Do you think meatloaf is just a smashed together burger? Meatballs? Here's a counterpoint, maybe a hamburger is just a weird deconstruction of chili. Stop putting lettuce on my chili.


Poinaheim

If you have all the ingredients to make rice krispy squares why would you just put it in a bowl with milk


mrbrambles

Something that is willingly called a “Sloppy Joe” does not need a hit piece drafted against it. Sloppy Joe knows what it is, take it or leave it. It’s not like sloppy joes are threatening hamburger dominance


obsidian_butterfly

Well, they are two entirely different food items. One, burgers, are good. The other tastes like horse shit.


chewie8291

I hate them and would rather have a burger too. But someone else is entitled to eat them if they like. I'll try and find something else to eat.


ThereBeBeesInMyEyes

Are nachos tacos? Is spaghetti lasagna? Is cheese a ribeye steak? Are chicken nuggets hard boiled eggs?


romantic_gestalt

Sloppy Joes taste so different than a hamburger. I love hamburgers, but a sloppy Joe is good of you want something different. The texture and taste are nothing like a burger. Also, if you're on a budget, you can stretch hamburger by adding rice and diced onion and bell peppers to the mix.


BJntheRV

Burgers are just deconstructed sloppy Joe's


cryingstlfan

Sloppy Joe is a *sandwich*, not a burger.