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WILD WEST Sloppy Joes to Make Your Mouth Water!
May 15, 2025
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it's lunchtime at the wagon and I hope
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y'all are hungry this is a cowboy most
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requested sandwich the hearty sloppy
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joe welcome into camp and what are we
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talking about sloppy Joe's hey it don't
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get no better than sloppy joe's camp
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might look a little different to y'all
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we don't move camp we have really got a
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great spot here it is a beautiful day up
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here in the pine trees it is but we get
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to talking about sloppy joe's and it
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really is folks the most requested
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cowboy meal that we've ever had if we're
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going to throw a sandwich out there this
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is a very hearty meal easy to fix and
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woo they don't eat one they don't eat
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two they'll eat three or four but we got
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to thinking we have so many new viewers
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that have come along since we did that
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sloppy joe video so long ago that we
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better make this again and we're going
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to make it better than we did the first
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time first thing I got to do is chop up
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an onion and some jalapenos i'll meet
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you over at the fire we'll get it to
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going hey before we go any further I got
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a question I need y'all to vote on and
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you can comment down below do you leave
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the seeds in the membrane and jalapenos
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when you cook them i wanted to leave
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them in there shan said take them out so
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let's have a vote but I got a little tip
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for you you know when you go to the
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grocery store and you see all them
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jalapenos laying out there the ones that
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are really slick and shiny have no marks
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on them you see no veins no cracks no
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nothing usually I would say 68% of the
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time those peppers are not as hot or the
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peppers that you might see that have a
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little white streak in them or they've
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got a little cracks in them somewhere
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those are going to be hotter but also
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depends on climate depends on soil so we
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got our brazer skillet here the
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Stargazer we're going to slide over
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there it is already been getting hot it
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has 2 lbs 80/20 ground beef without the
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plastic
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thing you can hear that sizzle going on
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there just a little a mosquite spatula
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and why do we use wood on cast iron
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because wood is not going to harm the
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seasoning coating so let's just give it
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a little chopping up
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here and you need to start with good
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8020 ground beef and if you can get
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ground chuck to me it's always better
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but if you don't see what you're looking
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for out there in that butcher's tray go
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around there knock on a little deal and
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say "Hey fell." You reckon you can mind
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grinding me up some 80/20 chuck right
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quick i need 2 lbs to fix these sloppy
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joe's you know when I tell people to get
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8020 ground chuck that's coming from up
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here where the chuck roast and stuff is
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it's better there's a lot of good ground
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meat on a hamburger but a lot of times
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in the trimmings that will go in just
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regular ground beef you're going to get
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the best flavor to me the best taste
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from ground chuck every
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[Applause]
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time well you can see that we begin to
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brown here just a little and I like to
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sort of get it about half done before we
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ever season and we're using our original
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seasoning and remember folks we do also
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have this in our low sodium blend as
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well so be sure and check that out if
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you don't have it you can use salt black
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pepper that's about all my mother ever
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had but remember these good vegetables
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we had here think how happy them
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jalapenos would have been Shan if we'
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have left the seeds and the membrane in
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there so we're going to get all these
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raed in there now I want to tell you
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something about a sloppy joe
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when I did chopped grill
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masters you know when I reached in that
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basket and I seen all this stuff and it
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was sardines which I had never seen in
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my life and these were still alive folks
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they were swimming in the sack and then
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I pulled out what a can of sloppy joe
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mix who Who even uses sloppy joe mix and
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who would put it with sardines but Kent
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Green got to thinking and him thinking
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"Hey I don't know what I'm going to do
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but I'm f to stew down them sardines in
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a Dutch oven chop them up really well
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then I'm going to mix me some sloppy joe
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stuff in there add a little more
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barbecue sauce that I made homemade stir
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it up we're going to have sardine sloppy
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joe." They informed me that's not the
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proper way that you cook a sardine and I
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told all three of them judges when I eat
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sardines I was fixing fence most of the
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time they cost 19 cents a can bones head
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tail and all pull the lid off of it you
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eat it with a cracker so when you mince
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this up in a Dutch oven and you mix all
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that stuff together cowboy sloppy joe
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sardine style I still think it was a
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winner okay when we're talking about
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using 2 lbs my mother always told me a
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long time ago 2 lb of hamburger meat
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makes eight hamburger patties but when
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I'm looking at it on a ranch basis and
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remember we're adding some stuff to this
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but I try to make about four pounds of
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meat to feed about 10 cowboys because I
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know what's fixing to happen this will
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be empty in a hurry i guarantee you
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there is never a leftover when you have
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these sloppy
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joe's if there is excess grease in your
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skillet slide it over there to the side
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tilt it up a little just get you a
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tablespoon or something and dip that out
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because you don't want to leave that
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much grease in there this is about all
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cooked out it has but I'm going to tell
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you something too we have a lot of
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hunters that really watch our channel
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and you can substitute this with ground
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deer meat ground elk meat it would work
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really well so we've got it to this
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point to where I really like
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it in the regular video that we did
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first and how my mother made it for many
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many years we just use regular old
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yellow mustard but folks I want to kick
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it up a notch i do so we going to have
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some of our sweet and spicy mustard and
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we're going to lay some of that in there
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cuz it's got some of them green chilies
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in it and I'm saying probably about that
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much to that we're going to add some of
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our barbecue sauce our Red River Ranch
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mud if you don't have that substitute
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with any barbecue sauce you want now
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start out a little leaner on this
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portion of it because we can add some
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more if and we need to brown sugar now
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it's going to bring about some sweetness
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cuz we got some heat in there but also
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it's going to sort of caramelize it as
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it brings everything together and
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thicken it up just to t it so in goes
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that we'll go to mixing this all
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together and I can already tell you if
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the cowboys was riding up and they seen
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me making this they would hurry to get
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them horses tied up and get back up here
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because they know it's going to run out
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pretty
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quick well we got her back there to a
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simmer i'm going to turn this heat down
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to
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low we need to let this simmer about 5
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minutes to make sure that brown sugar
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and everything is really incorporated
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well in there we do now this is a good
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time for you to taste it too and I'm
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going to tell you this give it a little
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cooling before you slap it in
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there just the smell of this I guarantee
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you if there's a cowboy within 100 miles
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here he'll be here in about 5 minutes
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is it as good as you remember it is good
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as I remember but it's better I think
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when you get that sweet and spicy
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mustard in there with them green chilies
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now after you taste that if you think
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"Oh I need just a little more barbecue
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sauce." Or "Hey I want to feel the kick
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of that mustard." Now is the time to put
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it in there but just let it simmer there
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for about 5 minutes just make sure you
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don't add too much of that barbecue
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sauce that it gets too soupy and it'll
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run off the bun hey while that's
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simmering along let me give you a little
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history about lunchtime there at the
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wagon you know back in the 1870s when
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they were having all the cattle drives
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there was not three meals a day they
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would gather around the wagon and have
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some breakfast and old Cookie had to
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load everything in the wagon hook up the
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mules and set off because they're
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driving cattle all day long get them
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back up or they feed supper wherever
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they're getting that day now me and Shan
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on traditional ranch cooking now we feed
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three meals a day and when them cowboys
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come in and eat breakfast say it's 4:00
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or 4:30 they get plum done they go down
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there somebody's already jingled up the
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horses and what does that mean well how
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these horses turned out in this pasture
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they kept two up now when we say they
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went to jingle in the horses now so many
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years ago they would probably put some
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horses out there and one or two of them
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might have a bail on them and you could
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hear them out there jangling along now
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this would let them know where they was
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where they might have been grazing in
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the night or they might have bedded down
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cowboys could find them bring them to a
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set of pins in there they would get all
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the horses in there cowboys would gather
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around and they would begin to rope out
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mounts for that day's work now they'd
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get in there with a big old grass rope
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or a nylon rope and they would hulahan
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it now this is a traditional loop you
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throw in here now hula han you're going
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to float a big old loop way up in the
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air and you bring it here and toss it
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and then when it comes around it's sort
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of facing that horse's head and just
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falls right there on top he'll pull him
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out give him to the cowboy that called
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the name out they'll rope another one
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they do this all the way through till
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everybody gets their mount they saddle
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up they begin to go out they're going to
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make a gather have a drive back to the
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pins now depending on the time of the
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year they could be weaning if it's in
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the fall but if it's in the spring
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they're gathering up they're stripping
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the cows off the calves and the bulls
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and they're going to brand all the
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calves then they'll put them back
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together now usually about this time
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things have went well they be headed
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back to the wagon because it's about
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lunchtime but a cow don't own a watch
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and she don't care that could be
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anywhere from 11:00 till 2:00 most of
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the time they'll give me and Shan a
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pretty good idea of when they're going
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to be through and what time they might
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be at camp and after they eat if they're
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not through it's back to the pins they
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go you can always tell if you know
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cowboys are going to have an easier
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afternoon or they still got a lot of
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work to do they won't eat as much at
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noon but if you see them load up four or
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five of them sloppy joe's you can think
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all they're going to do is go down there
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and unsaddle horses they're through for
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the day but then they'll get everything
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done hey won't be long before it' be
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time to start supper it is a meal that
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is easy to tote along with you i have
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seen one individual long many years ago
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he would always make one extra wrap it
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up stick it in his pocket and away he'd
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go after lunch so hey sloppy joe's
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easiest thing in the world but folks
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this is a very hearty meal and it will
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become your favorite
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too simmered along there about 5 minutes
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ahead that took me a taste everything is
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just right i mean don't get no better
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than that but I need to thicken it up
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and to thicken it up we're going to add
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some cheese now originally I would just
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use cheddar cheese and just sprinkle it
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on top mix it in there but folks I'm all
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about feeling some peppered up today i'm
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talking about jack it up jam it up what
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are we using pepper jack cheese about
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two
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cups this is going to bind it all
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together thicken it up it don't take
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long for this to happen probably going
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to take you maybe a minute and a half to
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two minutes at the most to let that
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cheese get in there get this thing
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sticking together melting making it
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really smooth that's what keeps a sloppy
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joe all together
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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folks that is an outstanding sandwich
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right there feed every hungry person you
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ever seen in your life and they'll want
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more but you see me right there at the
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end we sprinkled a little cheese right
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there on top too before we added that
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bun back on there now that is optional
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if you don't want to do that but another
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tip I'd like to give you too after you
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get this meat browned up really well you
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can put that in a crock pot if you want
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to put it on low till you get everything
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mixed in there and everything is done
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then turn that down on warm it is ready
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for you to go one of the greatest things
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you can take to a picnic to a backyard
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party these sloppy joe's will make you
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the winner every time i cannot wait to
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wrap a lip around this sandwich i have
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been craving it ever since we put it
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together
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thank you sweet
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[Music]
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Jesus wow
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[Music]
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that flavor knocked it out of the park
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but let me give you a tip now our
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barbecue sauce has some chipotle pepper
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and adobo sauce in it and if you don't
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have that with you to your barbecue
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sauce get you about two of them chipotle
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peppers out of that adobo sauce chop
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them up pretty good add them to that
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folks that's going to bring about the
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good smokiness that you're going to get
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from that but it's going to give it just
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a little bit of heat too folks this is
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the prizeinning dish you want to be the
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champion this one right here will get
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you over the bar every time you know
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folks it is with great pride honor and
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privilege that I tip my hat to all our
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servicemen and women and all the
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veterans that have kept that old flag of
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flying over camp we commend you all we
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do rest of you get on up in here really
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close i'm going to give you a sloppy Joe
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hug
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h God bless you each and everyone and
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I'll see you down the Sloppy Joe
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Trail well I'm sorry y'all can't have
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none of the meat today got a little
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spice in it who wants a chip you want a
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chip it's that's that's all I have to
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offer today is chips got a leaf off my
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mouth lou you bring something with you
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to the party dooker says he don't eat
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chips
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