![]() ![]() Sometimes people like to get creative, but Sloppy Joes are simply cooked ground beef in a tomato-based sauce, sometimes with diced onions, peppers and some spices thrown in. To be clear though, Sloppy Joes are generally not made of leftovers at all, as there’s a pretty standardized recipe for them. Fortunately, I didn’t care, because it was always delicious, whatever the hell it was. Sloppy Joe Day was a surprise and, once you got your Sloppy Joe, the surprises didn’t end there, because, what the fuck was that stuff anyway? It was beef, I’m sure, but was it something else beforehand? Was it the meatballs from Tuesday or the hamburgers from Wednesday? Or was it - like the Adam Sandler song says - yesterday’s meatloaf? There was simply no way to know. It might occur only once or twice a month, and you never saw it coming (unless you read the monthly menu beforehand, which, of course, I didn’t). Fridays were a given - I always bought lunch on pizza Fridays - but Sloppy Joe Day was less predictable. ![]() I usually brought my lunches to school back in the day, but about once or twice a week, I’d get some money from my mom to buy lunch. That honor, without a doubt, belonged to Sloppy Joe Day. But while Pizza Day was comforting, it wasn’t the most exciting day on the school cafeteria menu. After a long week in school, it was nice to know that on Friday, lunch would be something reliable, something you could trust, and with pizza being just three easily-identifiable ingredients, you always knew what you were getting. We ended up leaving and using the same card with no issue at another establishment without any problem.Don’t get me wrong, I loved pizza Fridays as a kid. They would try to fix a problem that others choose to ignore. The young lady looked sad as I told him, "Thanks anyway." I don't blame her - Who wants to be reamed like that? It was not her fault.Ī good manager or lead would have done something other than that. If not for his attitude (blaming me/putting down his coworker in front of customers), I would have let them try another card. He then suggested that I didn't have enough money on the card to pay for it, which aggravated me. He tried, and the same "transaction canceled" message appeared. ![]() So then the gentleman (manager?) gave her a snarky comment and offered his expertise, saying how he could make it work. The card had worked a few minutes prior when paying for lunch there. Then she offered to swipe the card herself She told me that it was definitely not my card and that they had been having constant trouble with it. Initially, I held my watch to the reader, but the screen immediately said, "Transaction canceled." She asked me to try it again, but I got the same result. The young lady at the register was great but had trouble with her machine. Checkout is where the great experience ended, leaving me with a lasting negative impression. This time we got shirts, hats, a bar mat, and all sorts of things. It would be neat if SJs put the names of past performers instead of just the upcoming ones (unless I missed it).Īs traditional holds, the kids and I get all kinds of souvenirs after lunch. The kids and I went for lunch last week and enjoyed lunch and the live musician. The establishment itself is an icon, and the food is always great. Sloppy Joes is a fun place to visit whenever I am in Key West. ![]()
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