Friday Way Off Topic - Favorite Iowa Foods
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Breaded Tenderloin, Iowa Chop, Sweet Corn for general foods.
If we are talking foods specific to Iowa restaurants than you have to go OP Pizza, a Gunderburger from the Irish Shanti, and anything served at the Machine Shed.
If we are talking foods specific to Iowa restaurants than you have to go OP Pizza, a Gunderburger from the Irish Shanti, and anything served at the Machine Shed.
Not being from Iowa, I have an outsiders perspective on it. Some of the things that my wife and I love from Iowa:
- Happy Joes Taco Pizza (this is definitely an Iowan thing. Grew up in Chicago Subs and had never tried taco pizza until I came to Iowa)
- Walking Tacos (Also very regional)
- Turkey and Dressing sandwiches (Northeast Iowa/Dubuque)
- Happy Joes Taco Pizza (this is definitely an Iowan thing. Grew up in Chicago Subs and had never tried taco pizza until I came to Iowa)
- Walking Tacos (Also very regional)
- Turkey and Dressing sandwiches (Northeast Iowa/Dubuque)
1. Sweet corn. "Corn on the cobb" is not the same.
2. Breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches.
3. Casey's breakfast pizza (but not regular pizza).
4. Great Plains Pizza - I've had lots of good pizza, but never found anything remotely similar to Great Plains
5. Bruegger's Bagels - so many Starbucks and Paneras out here, but no good chewy East Coast style bagel places I've found yet.
6. M'Fing Clone Cones.
I can get high quality beef and pork out here but it's more expensive. But seafood and organic fruits/veggies are much cheaper and higher quality here than in Iowa.
2. Breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches.
3. Casey's breakfast pizza (but not regular pizza).
4. Great Plains Pizza - I've had lots of good pizza, but never found anything remotely similar to Great Plains
5. Bruegger's Bagels - so many Starbucks and Paneras out here, but no good chewy East Coast style bagel places I've found yet.
6. M'Fing Clone Cones.
I can get high quality beef and pork out here but it's more expensive. But seafood and organic fruits/veggies are much cheaper and higher quality here than in Iowa.
Sweet corn! I don't know why Iowa's is so ******* good, but anywhere else and it's nasty. Here they have Ewa
Sweet Corn (grown in the Ewa Beach area) and I took one bite and couldn't finish because my disappointment was so high.
Sweet Corn (grown in the Ewa Beach area) and I took one bite and couldn't finish because my disappointment was so high.
Breaded pork tenderloin from just about anywhere. Even Hy-Vee had a good one, with lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, and may.
Taco pizza - here in Detroit all of our friends give us dumb looks when we talk about taco pizza, as if it's some foreign concept.
Whitey's Ice Cream. For this one, /thread.
Taco pizza - here in Detroit all of our friends give us dumb looks when we talk about taco pizza, as if it's some foreign concept.
Whitey's Ice Cream. For this one, /thread.
Definitely sweet corn. People in other parts of the country who have never had sweet corn grown in the midwest with the best soil have no idea what it's actually supposed to taste like (you know, good). They think the gritty, bland stuff grown in sandy or clay-like "soil" is good. Ha! They just have no clue. Might as well be eating feed corn (which a lot of people think is the same thing).
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agreed. Whenever my brother comes to visit, (he lives on the West Coast) he insists on eating at Hickory Park, Culver's, etc so he can get cheese balls. Says there's no place to get them anywhere near where he lives, and it's one of the things he misses about living in Iowa.
I have family in Virginia and New Jersey who do the same thing. They insist on going to small town bars so they can eat greasy cheeseburgers made with real beef and get a side of cheese balls with ranch.
It's amazing how much we take it for granted. My college roommate (and spouse) and I (and spouse) have an annual weekend get together in the summer. Part of the tradition has become rib eyes from our freezer and sweet corn from our field. They repay with the weekend supply of Yuengling beer. Personally I think we win. He says sweet corn is always a week old by the time it hits the grocery store from being shipped in from the Midwest. At our house I pick it on the way home from chores, husk it and eat it an hour later. Strange world we live in.
I'd take Midwest corn and meat over Yuengling any day.
I mean, it's good beer and I'll drink plenty of it when I visit my cousins in Virginia for the 4th, but we have a lot of beer here that's even better.
And the meat.
Without question it's any and everything AE related. Thank god HyVee is opening stores up in the Twin Cities this year so I can have it on hand!
Every time I visit my parents I make it a point to eat Casey's pizza at least once. I miss pork tenderloins, the best sweet corn in the world, BLT's with garden grown tomatoes, better meats, MOREL MUSHROOMS, other garden fresh veggies (onions, potatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, radishes), and small town bar food.
