Sign for Rick's Bar in Fargo, North Dakota, a city on the state's eastern border with Minnesota. With 106,000 people (as of 2021), Fargo is, by more than 40,000 population, the largest city in the vast northern plains state that stretches 300 miles west to Montana. The "sloppy joes" referenced as the day's lunch special is a sandwich made of an indeed sloppy combination of ground beef, onions, ketchup or tomato sauce and, often, Worcestershire sauce. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.