Wednesday October 22, 2008
We’re in theology up to our necks or further. Lunch got interrupted today because Adam continues to ply me with questions regarding death and what happens to our body afterward. I explained that we bury the body but our spirit goes to heaven yesterday and was surprised that he seemed to grasp the concept. Until today. He asked how many days after our body is buried does it get out of the ground and go to heaven and when I said it doesn’t the tears flowed. So we stopped lunch and I held him and tried to explain death….how do you explain that to a child who has not mastered abstracts? I still don’t know what all I said; I just know he seemed comforted in the end.
But here’s the other question that has surfaced at least a dozen times in the last month and I need help. Why do we call barbecue sandwiches “sloppy joes?”
What is with these boys?? Must be their age…Carson is into the same questions right now. Asking about someone dying and wanting me to tell him about people that have died, etc….I think it’s so hard for them to understand and grasp, that they want to keep asking. Carson doesn’t like the thought of being in the ground and I explained to him that ‘he’ is in Heaven with Jesus and that’s just his old body. Whew! So hard for them to understand!
THE MANE DIFFERANCE BETWEEN BARBEQUE AND SLOPPY JOES IS THE NORTH AND SOUTH ,IN THE SOUTH WE COOK A HOG IN THE GROUND AND HAVE ARE SELVES SOME BARBEQUE ,IN THE NORTH COOK AROAST IN THE CROCK POT ,THROW SOME BARBEQUE SAUCE ON IT AND CALL THAT BARBEQUE ,HOW SAD SOME PEOPLES LIVES ARE ,COME SOUTH AND WELL COOK US A PIG IN THE GROUND,AND GET WILD . ETM
Good luck on theology bit. I love trying to explain theology to my kids because it makes me reduce everything to the simplest forms, and gets rid of all the clutter that us grown-ups have in our theology. It sure is a challenge, though.
And I have no idea about why we call it sloppy joes!
I understand the “sloppy” part of it just fine, but “joe” has always confused me. Funny…we just had those for lunch today.
Wikipedia says = Brief history
The origins of this dish are unknown, but recipes for the dish date back at least to the 1700s. It dates in print to 1935. There is probably no Joe after whom it is named — but its rather messy appearance and tendency to drip off plate or roll makes “sloppy” an adequate description, and “Joe” is a name that would suggest, to an American, a person of proletarian character and unassailable genuineness, similar to how having a cup of ‘joe’ referred to coffee. There are many individual and regional variations on the dish.[3]
I was curious myself after you asked. š
@byfaith6 – STOP!!! You’re making me hungry. Ok, that’s real barbecue alright and I’ll take some hush puppies to go with it! I do the cheater version here myself (forgive me); but hey at least I make my own sauce stuff. Does that count? Oh, and I meant that other kind of sandwich you know the stuff w/ hamburger as opposed to true barbecue but I didn’t know what else to call it besides sloppy joes.
@millerseven – good for you. I should have looked it up myself. Funny. I thought they might be a “Mennonite thing.” Oh, yeah, and if I read that to him I’ll verbalize three words and have him say, “what’s origin, Mommy?”
Aw, that’s so sweet! Last year this time I was spending lots of my days with Alex who asked a LOT of similar questions. It was so fun to see his genuine interest and his sweet innocence. We had been talking about who God is and how He is everywhere and that He also lives in our hearts if we let Him and he seemed quite intrigued by it. After a short pause he looked at me and asked, “Does God like hotdogs?”
So does He? š
So sweet; I wanted to cry with him.
aw that is just so extremly cute…
Yeah, I’d love to know the sloppy joes part……
I don’t call a barbeque sandwich a sloppy joe, since in my book they’re two different things. I’m with what Wikipedia (also) says:
A sloppy joe is an American dish of ground beef, onions, sweetened tomato sauce or ketchup and other seasonings, served on a hamburger bun. Sloppy Joes are simpler variant of barbecue sandwich which uses shredded beef or pork and barbecue sauce.
The name “sloppy” comes from the fact that eating it as if it were a normal sandwich often results in the meat and sauce spilling out.