Around here (
South Dakota), you will enter a world where meat goes by many names.
Why this occurs, I know not, but the fact is that you'd better pay attention when ordering one of those ground
hamburger with little bits of
tomato sauce served on a
bun things.
I call it a
BBQ. If you order a BBQ, most people will understand what the hell you want. But in some places, they call a BBQ a
Tavern. Just down the road, you might find that the menu doesn't call it a tavern, but instead calls it a
sloppy joe.
Drive a little further
west, and you'll find signs proclaiming the
lunch special to be a "new way." Even further West, and you might hear it referred to as a
steam burger. In the northwestern corner of
Iowa all the crazy
Dutch people call it a "made right". Just across the border in
Nebraska, they call it a
Tastee. Further
south from made right country, folks refer to their sandwiches as
loose meat sandwiches.
Technically, a BBQ isn't of the same composition as a tavern. The Ma Leischner recipe for a tavern includes ground hamburger and
chicken gumbo condensed
soup among other things.
Some people like a little ketchup and mustard in their taverns. I do not. I subscribe to the
KISS Principle so that crap can stay the hell away from the Sloppy Joe, aka Loose meat, aka new way....you get the point.