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What is a slopper in Colorado?
A cheeseburger served open faced and smothered in chile, usually green, usually pork. The chile is thick enough to coat the burger and thin enough to pool on the plate, so it's a knife-and-fork job. (If you searched the word after seeing it online, there's an unrelated internet slang meaning. This is the burger.)
Where did the slopper come from?
Pueblo. Gray's Coors Tavern and the Star Bar are the two bars credited with it, and Serious Eats traces the dish to one or the other around the middle of the last century. That's why you'll hear it called a Pueblo slopper.
What's in ours?
An open-faced burger with your choice of cheese, smothered in our homemade pork green chili. It's on the burger menu.
How do you eat one?
Fork and knife. Get chili on every bite, bottom bun included, and ask for extra napkins.
Want just the green chili?
We sell it by the cup or the bowl, on the green chili and soups part of the menu.
