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Key West: Birth Place of the Sloppy Joe
Who invented the Sloppy Joe? Bob Carlson, host of KCRW’s Unfictional, is in Key West where two restaurants, a mere 20 yards apart from one another, both lay claim to…
By Gillian Ferguson • • 1 min readWho invented the Sloppy Joe?
Bob Carlson, host of KCRW’s Unfictional, is in Key West where two restaurants, a mere 20 yards apart from one another, both lay claim to the first Sloppy Joe. Turns out that only one of them, Sloppy Joe’s, still serves the messy sandwich. Captain Tony’s just down the street has morphed into a dive bar. Where do you like to go for Sloppy Joes?