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19 December 2025
VIDEO: LUNCH LADY LAND & The Humble Sloppy Joe Is Making A Comeback and Sheridan Chef Is Leading The Charge 13DEZ25
Adam Sandler performs "Lunch Lady Land," a song about the lunch lady (Chris Farley) and how the angry food revolted against her, until Sloppy Joe (Kevin Nealon) saved the day. [Season 19, 1994]
The Humble Sloppy Joe Is Making A Comeback and Sheridan Chef Is Leading The Charge
The lowly Sloppy Joe might dwell at the bottom of Americana comfort food totem pole, but it’s enjoying a revival. Chef Andrew Nord at Smith Alley Brewing in Sheridan is reinventing the sandwich with a gourmet makeover featuring the brewery's Steamboat Stout.
David Madison
December 13, 20256 min read
SHERIDAN — Andrew Nord's earliest memory of a sloppy Joe comes with a soundtrack.
"Honestly, probably like the sloppy Joe song — ‘Lunch Lady Land’ with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley," said Nord, a chef at Smith Alley Brewing Co. in Sheridan. "When I think sloppy Joe, I think about that."
Sandler sings, “Yesterday's meatloaf is today's sloppy Joes,” and for Nord, that’s part of the joke.
It also crosses a line. He insists on crafting sloppy Joes with fresh ingredients.
Growing up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Nord had an unusual relationship with the iconic sandwich. His mother is a lunch lady at a school, sometimes serving the very dish that defined cafeteria cuisine for generations of American kids.
His father? Not a fan.
"My dad's name is Joe, and when he was in kindergarten, his teacher called him sloppy Joe," Nord said. "And he hates the sandwich now."
He may be the only one.
Steamboat Style
Recently, Nord found himself drawn into the sloppy Joe's orbit when Smith Alley Manager Will Purcell asked him to develop a special for Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving when downtown Sheridan fills with Christmas shoppers during the annual Christmas Stroll.
"We were talking about the Christmas Stroll we have every year here," Nord said, recalling the menu brainstorming session. "Something kind of warm and that everybody would love. And it clicked because we're going to be busy, so we need something quick and good."
A sloppy Joe made perfect sense. It was a departure from Thanksgiving leftovers and it could be prepared in volume for a hungry crowd.
Nord's recipe starts simply: a diced green pepper and onion, sautéed and sweated down until fully cooked. Then comes the ground beef, browned in the same pan.
Next Nord adds the dry seasonings — cayenne, black pepper and brown sugar — followed by liquid smoke and Worcestershire sauce. Then the signature ingredient: about a quarter bottle of Smith Alley's house-made Steamboat Stout.
"I think it has a richness to it," Nord said. "And you get those toasty flavors from the beer. I think it just adds to the flavor. It's a booster."
The mixture cooks down until the alcohol evaporates and the liquid reduces. Nord finishes with yellow mustard and ketchup — and notably, no tomato paste — which is common in other recipes because it helps bind the loose meat.
"I just kind of let the sugar thicken it up a little bit," he said.
The result lands on a buttered brioche bun from Great Harvest Montana.
Sloppy Joe protocol is flexible and easy going as diners are encouraged to eat it with their hands, but also provided silverware.
Ranch Roots
Purcell likes to keep a spoon handy when feasting on a sloppy Joe. Like Nord, the sandwich comes smothered in nostalgia.
"Making them at my parent's ranch in Kansas, where I grew up," he said. "It was easy to make, and it fed a lot of people, which was ranch food."
Like many Americans of a certain generation, young Purcell's sloppy Joes came from a can.
"I think when we were kids, we actually used the Manwich out of the cans," he said. "And, you know, as things progressed, you find better recipes."
On Black Friday, Nord’s Steamboat sloppy Joe was a hit. One regular declared it the best sloppy Joe he'd ever had, said Purcell.
Nord made 10 pounds of the mixture that first weekend, and it sold out within two days.
"As popularity gains on it, it'll probably become a staple here because it's so easy to make," Purcell said.
Wyoming Scarcity
Despite its popularity with diners, finding a sloppy Joe on a Wyoming restaurant menu requires some hunting.
"I think there is a stigma about sloppy Joes that it's not worthy enough for their menu," Purcell said. "I don't want to say it's frowned upon, but people just overlook it."
In Cheyenne, the Bread Basket Bakery offers a sloppy Joe lunch plate with chips and a drink for $8.
At Bubba's Breakfast & Barbeque in Jackson, the menu includes a clever riff on the sloppy Joe. It’s a $15 sandwich combining prime brisket and pulled pork called the sloppy Bubba.
Sloppy History
The sloppy Joe is having a moment. In August, The New Yorker magazine devoted considerable attention to Farley's, a new counter-service restaurant in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood specializing entirely in sloppy Joe sandwiches.
"The sloppy Joe is an unsung icon of Americana cooking, several rungs down the ladder of respectability from its more celebrated quick-serve cousins, such as the hamburger and the chili dog," the magazine noted, before adding that "even in its most slapdash form" it "is a genuinely delicious construction."
The sandwich's origins remain contested. The most widely accepted theory credits Ye Olde Tavern in Sioux City, Iowa, where a cook named Joe allegedly added tomato sauce to a loose meat sandwich sometime in the 1930s.
A competing theory points to a Cuban connection and the original sloppy Joe Bar in Havana, which served simple sandwiches to thirsty Americans who flooded Cuba during Prohibition. The creation drew on classic Cuban dishes like ropa vieja — beef mixed with tomatoes and spices.
Whatever its true origins, the sloppy Joe went mainstream in 1969 when Hunt's introduced Manwich, a canned sauce designed for busy home cooks. The slogan "A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal" became ubiquitous in the 1970s as more women entered the workforce and convenience foods surged in popularity.
Comfort Classic
At Smith Alley, the Steamboat sloppy Joe delivers exactly what comfort food should — warmth on a chilly Wyoming day. The sweetness of the brown sugar plays against the savory onion and green pepper, all delightfully paired with the perfect side — tater tots — another school lunch mainstay. Chips and fries also go nicely.
"The best is like the leftover on the bottom that you use a chip or a fry to scoop up with," Nord said. "I think that's the best part of the sloppy Joe is getting all the drippings."
The allure is strong, as the “Lunch Lady Land” skit so eloquently expresses. A dancing sloppy Joe sandwich appears on stage and Sandler sings, “We all live together in our happy home. Thanks to sloppy Joe, sloppy, sloppy Joe, yeah, sloppy Joe…”
David Madison
Features Reporter
David Madison is an award-winning journalist and documentary producer based in Bozeman, Montana. He’s also reported for Wyoming PBS. He studied journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and has worked at news outlets throughout Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Montana.
23 November 2025
BREAKING: T.r.u.m.p TRIES to CANCEL SNL After Colin Jost MOCKS Him LIVE On TV — The Savage Roast That Sent Mar-a-Lago Into MELTDOWN…
WELL DONE Colin Jost!!!!!
BREAKING: T.r.u.m.p TRIES to CANCEL SNL After Colin Jost MOCKS Him LIVE On TV — The Savage Roast That Sent Mar-a-Lago Into MELTDOWN…
BREAKING: T.r.u.m.p TRIES to CANCEL SNL After Colin Jost MOCKS Him LIVE On TV — The Savage Roast That Sent Mar-a-Lago Into MELTDOWN...
It was Saturday Night Live chaos as Colin Jost unleashed a brutal roast on D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p, tearing into his legal battles, campaign gaffes, and ego — and within hours, sources say T.r.u.m.p personally tried to have NBC “shut down the show"
Jost opened with a smirk, saying, "T.r.u.m.p’s the only guy who claims to be a billionaire but keeps crowdfunding his bail". The audience erupted in laughter before he added, "At this point, his campaign slogan should be Make Lawyers Great Again". The jokes hit hard — and apparently, they hit T.r.u.m.p harder than anyone expected.
According to insiders, T.r.u.m.p went ballistic after watching the live broadcast, shouting at aides and demanding that his legal team "find a way to cancel SNL". One Mar-a-Lago source described the scene as "total meltdown — yelling, pacing, phones flying, pure chaos"
Within minutes, T.r.u.m.p was reportedly flooding Truth Social with angry all-caps posts calling Jost "a talentless hack" and claiming the show was "part of a Democrat smear campaign". Meanwhile, the clip exploded across the internet, racking up millions of views and sending #SNLtrending worldwide.
Critics are calling it "the funniest political roast of the year", while fans say Jost "did what no politician could — made T.r.u.m.p sweat with jokes"
The full uncut SNL segment is going viral — watch the roast that made T.r.u.m.p try to cancel the show before it’s taken down...Full s.t.o.r.y below
31 May 2024
17 January 2021
Weekend Update: The Village People on Donald Trump Using Their Music - SNL 24OKT2020
Weekend Update: The Village People on Donald Trump Using Their Music - SNL
The Village People (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Beck Bennett, Chris Redd, Bowen Yang) stop by Weekend Update to address Donald Trump using their music at his rallies.
06 October 2020
Kate McKinnon Pays Sweet Homage On ‘SNL’ To Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Weekend Update: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Not Retiring - SNL VIDEO 4OKT20&22FEB17
WELL DONE KATE MCKINNON, WELL DONE!
Kate McKinnon Pays Sweet Homage On ‘SNL’ To Ruth Bader Ginsburg
McKinnon appeared as her hero sitting in the audience before the scene dissolved into a “Rest in Power” message.
Kate McKinnon always knocked her feisty, funny tributes to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “Saturday Night Live” out of the park. On Saturday night McKinnon, her hair pulled back in a bun, paid sweet homage to her late hero sitting quietly in the audience at the end of “Weekend Update,” wearing a black court gown and Ginsburg’s trademark white collar.
The camera held on her for a moment as she placed her hand on her heart and nodded before the image dissolves into a “rest in power” message.
Ginsburg died last month of cancer at the age of 87.
“For so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a real-life superhero: a beacon of hope, a warrior for justice, a robed crusader who saved the day time and again,” McKinnon wrote after her death.
“Playing her on ‘SNL’ was a profound joy because I could always feel the overwhelming love and gratitude that the audience had for her,” she added. “It was one of the great honors of my life to meet Justice Ginsburg, to shake her hand, and to thank her for her lifetime of service to this country.”
Weekend Update: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Not Retiring - SNL
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) stops by to explain why she won't be retiring anytime soon.
25 October 2019
02 July 2018
Joe Cocker and John Belushi SNL Feeling Alright 1976 & John Belushi as Joe Cocker With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker and John Belushi SNL Feeling Alright 1976
John Belushi as Joe Cocker With A Little Help From My Friends
Comedian John Belushi's best impersonation ever of Joe Cocker singing The Beatles cover of With A Little Help From My Friends from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Both greats are dead; John Belushi died in Hollywood, CA of a drug overdose on March 5, 1982; Joe Cocker RIP of lung cancer in December 22, 2014.
In April 1969, Joe Cocker laid the groundwork for his ’70s stardom when he unveiled his debut album, With a Little Help From My Friends. For almost a decade, the Sheffield-born Cocker had been toiling in the trenches — first under the pseudonym Vance Arnold and later under his own name, fronting cult pub legends the Grease Band. In an era of self-contained bands and singer-songwriters, With a Little Help From My Friends bucked the trend in establishing Cocker as one of the most imaginative and distinctive interpretative singers of his generation.
The album opens with funky piano chords ushering in Dave Mason’s Traffic song “Feelin’ Alright,” the first of many tracks that Cocker made his own with help from backup singers Merry Clayton (who also sang on the Stones‘ ‘Gimme Shelter’) and Brenda and Patrice Holloway. Around the same time, he also debuted his singular stage mannerisms, which he later genially spoofed alongside John Belushi on Saturday Night Live.
The album’s highlights showcase Cocker’s formidable vocal and emotional range, including a bluesy reading of the 1926 pop standard “Bye Bye Blackbird”; Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman,” lovingly approached like a church hymn; and a sultry arrangement of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” that flipped the Animals’ famously angst-ridden version on its head. Cocker even threw some playful falsettos into “Marjorine,” one of two songs he co-wrote with pianist and fellow Grease Band alum Chris Stainton.
And then there’s the title track, a rare reinvention of a Beatles song that’s better than the the original. Cocker takes the lovely but rather staid Ringo Starr-sung cut and radically transformed it into a master class of soulful tension and release, punctuated by stinging guitars played by Jimmy Page. The following year, Cocker performed one of the most memorable sets at Woodstock, skyrocketing his fame and setting him up for an even more fruitful decade to come.
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