Oh the dinner thread reminded me sloppy joe

My version of a sloppy joe is the same as yours, except we use all beef and the Manwich can. And we do go with a slice of American cheese. 
I've never heard of the other version. Was it at a restaurant or at someone's house?

Manwich sauce stirred into ground beef. I have never heard of slaw served on a sloppy joe.

Sloppy Joe to me is similar to what you posted, but no cheese. Just the meat with a bit more sauce. And no slaw (in the sandwich).

My recipe is most like this. Ground beef with a sweet tomato based sauce.

I was raised in Michigan, and if I'm making sloppy joes - they must have a can of chicken gumbo soup added to it !

I brown ground beef and use the McCormick spice packet. I am glad to see how to do it from scratch, though. I didn't really know what was in it and never took the time to Google it. (just always used the packet).

I eat mine open-faced on a regular hamburger bun, though, and eat dill pickles with it (on the side, though). So, I open my bun halves up, plop the meat on each side and use a fork to eat.

Never had cheese on a Sloppy Joe. But I agree with the rest. Ground beef in a somewhat soupy, tomato sauce.

I use ground beef, the seasoning packet and a small can of tomato paste. follow directions on the packet(though I can do it by heart) eat it on a bun with some mustard and pickles . and gotta have chips with sloppy joes.. I hate hate hate the manwich stuff.

Ground beef, onion, red bell pepper with a sauce of ban sauce, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce and probably a few other things I forgot. So, same as yours- ground beef in a tomato based saucd. A cold cut sandwich with Cole slaw is not a sloppy Joe. How odd.

This is the Sloppy Joe recipe I've used for the last 30 or 40 years. It's a well-seasoned version with a slightly barbecue flavor. A family favorite.
Sloppy Joes
In a large frying pan brown 2 lbs ground beef and drain. Add:
2 Tble dried onions (or about 1/2 large onion, chopped)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp garlic powder (can substitute fresh)
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dry mustard, ginger, allspice, & chili powder
2 tsp soy sauce
2 Tble Worchestershire sauce
4 Tble vinegar
1/2 cup catsup
1 15oz can tomato sauce
12 drops liquid smoke
Cover and simmer until the sauce is as thick as you like it to be, stirring occasionally. I usually simmer it for about 30 minutes. The original recipe came from a Seattle television morning show and I adjusted/changed the recipe to suit my family.

When I was little, my mom made us what she called sloppy joes, and it was ground beef browned and then a tin of Campbell's vegetable soup thrown in, warmed up and served on hamburger buns. I loved when we had them, and now I'm feeling all nostalgic

I have not heard of cold cuts on a sloppy joe either. That doesn't even seem sloppy!

It is funny to see the regional variations of a particular sandwich. I always thought of sloppy joes as pretty standard school lunch food, and we never had them served with cheese, gumbo, or avocados. Crinkle fries was always the side.

This is what we would call a soup burger.

Sloppy Joe here is browned ground beef with a BBQ-ish sauce, often with cheese on it...because this is Wisconsin and there is cheese on or in everything.