Ground chicken sloppy joes spark naming debate on Bluesky
A user's cost-driven switch from beef to poultry prompts creative (and silly) suggestions from commenters.
What to know
- Rising beef prices prompted the user to substitute ground chicken, sparking a naming problem when the family rejected "sloppy chicks" and "chicken slops."
- The thread split between jokey creative names ("Who gives a cluck," "Improperly Attired Joeseph") and serious cooking advice on budget meat-stretching using turkey, lentils, bulghur, and plant-based alternatives.
- Multiple commenters suggested the name "Sloppy Joes" already works regardless of protein, or offered practical seasoning tips like worcestershire sauce and beef bouillon to improve chicken flavor.
Embrace creative or silly alternative names that play on chicken or sloppy joes.
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“Get out the fancy dishes and call it an Improperly Attired Joeseph”
jay-west.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
No need to change the name—Sloppy Joes works fine with any ground meat protein.
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“Sloppy Joes is meat agnostic - no need to change the name. 😀”
booksofbrian.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
Share practical budget cooking advice: use turkey, lentils, bulghur, or plant-based meat and add flavor boosters.
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“Have you tried ground turkey? Highly recommend. Same with chili. If you do chili extra beans cuts down the price. I use ground turkey, 3 different types of beans.”
wacket.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
randyhermanlaw.com Original poster
How it unfolded 4 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump postscomments
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Commenters share budget meat-stretching techniques
Users described ways to reduce meat costs while maintaining flavor: mixing ground chicken or turkey with lentils, adding beef bouillon, using worcestershire sauce, and substituting bulghur or plant-based crumbles for traditional ground meat.
“I use ground turkey, 3 different types of beans. You can also make tacos, add rice. Cuts down the price.”
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Sorry to hear they bawked at it. (I'll see myself out)
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Have you tried ground turkey? Highly recommend. Same with chili. If you do chili extra beans cuts down the price. I use ground turkey, 3 different types of beans. You can also make tacos, add rice. Cuts down the price.
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Considering how processed chicken meat is about an even split between male and female sexes, half of what you're eating are sloppy cocks.
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Practical commenters offer cooking and budget advice
Alongside the joking responses, multiple commenters offered serious cooking alternatives: using ground turkey, adding lentils or bulghur to stretch meat, and suggestions that the name "Sloppy Joes" is already meat-agnostic and needs no change.
“Sloppy Joes is meat agnostic - no need to change the name. 😀…”
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Get out the fancy dishes and call it an Improperly Attired Joeseph
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Sloppy Joes is meat agnostic - no need to change the name. 😀
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you could try Tofu, then you caould have sloppy toes
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Commenters suggest alternative names with wordplay
The post quickly accumulated dozens of responses with creative alternative dish names, many using puns and chicken-related wordplay. High-scoring suggestions included "Who gives a cluck," "Sloppy José," and "Improperly Attired Joeseph."
“Get out the fancy dishes and call it an Improperly Attired Joeseph…”
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How about "Who gives a cluck"? Makes for an interesting text when someone asks what's for dinner.
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User posts about switching to chicken sloppy joes due to beef prices
A Bluesky user shared that rising beef prices prompted them to make sloppy joes with ground chicken instead, and that they proposed the names "sloppy chicks" or "chicken slops" but their family rejected both.
“Because of beef prices, I am making sloppy joes with ground chicken, but my family didn't appreciate either of my preferred meal names, sloppy chicks or chicken slops…”
— randyhermanlaw.com -
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Because of beef prices, I am making sloppy joes with ground chicken, but my family didn't appreciate either of my preferred meal names, sloppy chicks or chicken slops
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😂 Neither of those are what popped into my head.
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What people are saying 16 voices from 1 site · best of 61 · verbatim
- Sep 18
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I mean when you think about it "Sloppy Joe" ain't exactly literature.
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Forget the price... it's the "I'm not going to say where the hamburger comes from" that's the real issue. Okay, price too but you get me drift.
- Sep 17
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I can't eat red meat so learned to sub ground turkey into dishes that call for ground beef. Pro tip: add a bit of worcestershire sauce.
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Just make with rooster instead. Then you can call it a sloppy cock.
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Ya may just want to get some beef bullion.. it’s affordable and don’t call this dish by those names. Hahaha!
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Instead of chicken, I use the cheaper high fat beef and GREEN or BLACK lentils. Add the cooked lentils, along with a squirt of liquid beef bouillon towards the end browning. They'll absorb the fat and juices and get 😋. We call it bleef. Don't use red or brown lentils. They disintegrate. It's 🤢
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As a professional chef of 42+ years, who spent 3 of those working for hippies, in a primarily vegetarian restaurant; A really good substitute for ground beef, which doesn't change the flavor significantly, and also maintains the texture. You can sub in bulghur. Cooks quickly, and absorbs flavor.
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Sloppy Chicks is a good one! Or Sloppy Clucks? Cluckin' Joes?
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Impossible burger meat makes epic meatballs and dollars to donuts would make sloppy joe you wouldnt tell the difference from
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Just take "slop" out and call them "discombirbulated"
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Yeah but tracking down only meat from cows named Joe was a real time suck
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Over brown it. Add tallow Don't tell them.
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Tacos and spaghetti work with ground pork, too.. Save a few bucks.
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Change the language and make it fancy! Pollo descuidado (Spanish), magulong manok (Filipino), Schlampiges Huhn (German), Pollo disordinato(Italian).
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C’mon parents 😞 bad jokes about innocent animal victims aside, how is it even possible so many of you aren’t getting it this point? #ClimateEmergency #collapse
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The chicken itself doesn't have much flavor so you have to season more than for beef but it works pretty well