In 13 years of living in Iowa I've never had a tenderloin. Maybe I'll start for all you people who have left.
For those LONG GONE from Iowa... what do you miss?
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And I am close enough to Kansas to also be infested with KU fans along with MU fans. It is a great joy.
Up side is I don't get as much snow.
Pork tenderloin sandwiches and Iowa beef. I called a butcher and asked him to make me some pork tenderloins for sandwiches. I specifically told him to use a hammer to flatten them into about the size of a dinner plate because he seemed to be confused as to what I meant. So I pick them up and get them home and he had given me pork cutlets. Instead of hammering them flat, he had run them through the tenderizer. Lazy butt. A pork cutlet is NOT the same thing as a pork tenderloin, you moron. I couldn't do anything to save them, so I tried to make pork tenderloins out of pork cutlets. They fell apart in the skillet before I could ever get them onto a bun. Very disappointing.
I snow-bird it but this was my list of what I miss while down south. Having lived in Eastern IA/QCA affects my list, obviously:
Dwyer and Michaels
Rudy's Cheese and Onion Enchiladas
Kitchen Cooked and/or Sterzings potato chips
Tones Liquid Smoke. Every other brand I could get basically sucks balls.
Driving on nice county roads with little to no traffic
The smell of new-mown hay. Even the smell of a new mown lawn - the grass in Florida is Bermuda grass and it's completely different.
This first spring I came back to IA, in the morning waking up, I was shocked in a very pleasant way, at all the birds chirping - even a bit before sun-up. Something I had been so used to I didn't notice before, then after having spent 6 months away, I suddenly noticed it big time.
Dwyer and Michaels
Rudy's Cheese and Onion Enchiladas
Kitchen Cooked and/or Sterzings potato chips
Tones Liquid Smoke. Every other brand I could get basically sucks balls.
Driving on nice county roads with little to no traffic
The smell of new-mown hay. Even the smell of a new mown lawn - the grass in Florida is Bermuda grass and it's completely different.
This first spring I came back to IA, in the morning waking up, I was shocked in a very pleasant way, at all the birds chirping - even a bit before sun-up. Something I had been so used to I didn't notice before, then after having spent 6 months away, I suddenly noticed it big time.
Chipotle is everywhere. And I wasn't aware it was a hipster hangout.
Fall in Ames is probably what I miss the most. Also lazy summer nights in late August. I can second the poster that mentioned cicadas. There is something so relaxing about sitting outside as the sun is going down while those things hum.
I've been gone one year but non ISU things I miss:
Good produce
Fall
Family and Friends
Steak that tastes right
Caseys Pizza (WaWa is close but not Caseys)
Trust worthy strangers
Drivers that can keep their composure in the rain
Midwest work ethic
I miss being able to drive 15 miles in a few minutes rather than an hour
Its a lot of little things but I haven't missed the snow and cold, Iowa fans, or small town drama.
Good produce
Fall
Family and Friends
Steak that tastes right
Caseys Pizza (WaWa is close but not Caseys)
Trust worthy strangers
Drivers that can keep their composure in the rain
Midwest work ethic
I miss being able to drive 15 miles in a few minutes rather than an hour
Its a lot of little things but I haven't missed the snow and cold, Iowa fans, or small town drama.
In no particular order
-All things Anderson Erickson
-Sips
-Fat girls (Fat girls at Sips especially)
-Happy Joe's
-B-Bops
-The smell of corn and hay silage
-All things Anderson Erickson
-Sips
-Fat girls (Fat girls at Sips especially)
-Happy Joe's
-B-Bops
-The smell of corn and hay silage
"Welcome to Moe's!"
Yeah I agree, it sucks. We just got a Chipotle out here so life can be restored to normal.
Moes is gross. The only reason to go is for Moe Monday...At least then its cheap garbage.
Um, I live in Houston. So I have cheap cheap gas, but no Fred. And no Italian beefs, but plenty of high-quality Mexican food.
Love the hay smell. I grew up on a small hog farm and worked for many neighboring dairy farmers also (big and small) growing up. I had bad hay fever/allergies but I was helping unload hay/straw/milk in the dustiest conditions. I almost always drop the windows to smell everything when we come back. For a little bit a least, but there is always a dead smelly something on Highway 9 that ends the fun.
They're a local chain. Not sure of any by the river. The oldest one I used to go to way back, when I lived in the West End, was on West 4th St in a converted movie theater. The one I usually go to is on West Kimberley road near Culvers, not far from Walmart.
