Sloppy Giuseppe
Sloppy Giuseppe is a flavour of pizza found primarily in the United Kingdom, made popular by the Pizza Express chain of Italian style restaurants. The name is an Italianisation of the Sloppy Joe, a type of meat sauce often served on a hamburger bun.
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| Place of origin | United Kingdom |
| Main ingredients | Green peppers, Beef |
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It is most commonly a combination of green peppers, red onion and spicy beef. The spicy beef is usually ground, although a few restaurants and pizzerias tend to use diced beef. According to news website The Post, the Sloppy Giuseppe caused the average customer to spend an extra 11% in Pizza Express's Irish outlets.[1]
Pizza Express, which originated the pizza, presents a fanciful backstory on their menus and packaging about its supposed invention by a clumsy chef named Giuseppe in one of their locations. (The sloppy joe sandwich is not a common food item in the United Kingdom.)
Variations
Variations of the recipe are slight. It is often small pizzerias that differ from the established ground beef, red onion and green pepper combination, with some pizzerias in England using local cheeses substituting for the more traditional mozzarella cheese. The same can be said for Italian pizzerias using local buffalos to produce the mozzarella.
Availability
As well as being available in the United Kingdom, Sloppy Giuseppe is part of the menu in many multi-national food chains and so is found throughout the European Union and the United States. The recipe varies slightly from country to country.