Food for the common man - the Sloppy Joe (Photos)

Lincoln once said, "God must love the common man because he made so many of them".

In keeping with that thought I would like to share a meal that hundreds, if not dozens of us common men will enjoy tonight as we watch the Academy of Country Music Awards on our 65 inch flat screen TVs.

To serve 2, You'll need:

- About 1/2 pound coarsely triturated muscle and connective tissue. I used ground beef.

- salt, pepper, dried garlic from a jar

- Sauce. I used Hunt's Manwich™ sauce in my preparation. It is the penultimate; the absolute pinochle of canned sauce specifically designed by full time employed food technicians to enhance the flavor of this dish. As near as I can tell, the Hunt's product is made from mostly natural ingredients, with a few petrochemical byproducts, used to enhance the flavor and give the product an almost unlimited shelf life. In my research for this post I determined that most of the ingredients in Hunt's Manwich™ sauce are not included on the California Hazardous Materials listing.



- a nice bun. Mine came from Piggly Wiggly. It is perfectly acceptable to substitute Light bread for the bun. In a bind, a few packs of the saltine crackers Granny Jean stole from the salad bar at Western Sizzler can also be used to turn this into a nice dip.

Lets get to cooking.

First, fire up the range and sauté the ground beef with a little salt, pepper and garlic.



Be sure to cook this stuff until its done.

Then open your can of sauce and dump it into the pan, right there on top of the meat.



Looks yummy already. Go on ahead and stir it together.



You want to cook it a while, especially if the Manwich™ came from the dented can isle.

This is a special night because George Strait is on the CMA show, so we served this dish (fancy like) open faced, with a side order of Tater Chips.



and Amber fluids.



I am happily living the "Fully Loved" good life.







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