Loose Meat
Visited the state of Iowa this past week.
It's funny but the response I get when I mention that is:
Why?
or
How bad is it?
Well.
There's not a lot going on there.
I took a trip from Kansas City to Ankeny which is about 3 hours by rental car. I added satellite radio to my car charge because I didn't want to be scanning from station to station and I figured that the drive might be a tad boring.
It is.
Miles of endless nothing.
A few cows. Watch out for deer signs and just field after field after field with the farmer's daughter type homes about a half mile from the road.
"You should try a loose meat sandwich," my buddy texted me.
I thought of the old Roseanne show and Tom Arnold (a famous guy from Iowa) talking about how great they are.
I don't normally scan the area too closely when I'm in an unfamiliar state and since my drinking days are over I'm no longer looking for the best bar when I'm on the road.
But loose meat?
I made a mental note to look around.
Good old Pops was ready with some of the locations.
He evidently had time to look up the menu at Jethro's Pork Chop Grill and told me about the Maid-Rite stores that sold the loose meat.
I googled each.
For dinner I had a loose meat type sandwich with a side of rattlesnake pasta.
(No, it's not real rattlesnake - it was a mac and cheese type dish with jalapenos and some other spices mixed in).
Good stuff.
But I was still curious about the Maid-Rite phenomenon.
I visited the job and was at the site until nearly lunch time.
I visited Google and the Maid-Rite was within a couple of miles.
Loose Meat Here I come!
The place was busy. It was also clean and well-lit and the red and white interior gave it an old-time diner feel. There were about 40 loose meat choices but I thought I'd go with the original.
I ordered two.
And much like it's name it's just loose hamburger meat on a standard hamburger bun.
I went with everything on it.
Onion, pickle and mustard.
Damn!
Those went down quick!
I kept looking at the menu.
I had a three hour drive left.
Miles of endless nothing.
I returned to the counter.
"They're good," the lady said, "aren't they?"
"Better give me one more."
She laughed.
"I can eat about 6 at a time," she said.
Loose Meat in Iowa.
Tom Arnold was right!
It's funny but the response I get when I mention that is:
Why?
or
How bad is it?
Well.
There's not a lot going on there.
I took a trip from Kansas City to Ankeny which is about 3 hours by rental car. I added satellite radio to my car charge because I didn't want to be scanning from station to station and I figured that the drive might be a tad boring.
It is.
Miles of endless nothing.
A few cows. Watch out for deer signs and just field after field after field with the farmer's daughter type homes about a half mile from the road.
"You should try a loose meat sandwich," my buddy texted me.
I thought of the old Roseanne show and Tom Arnold (a famous guy from Iowa) talking about how great they are.
I don't normally scan the area too closely when I'm in an unfamiliar state and since my drinking days are over I'm no longer looking for the best bar when I'm on the road.
But loose meat?
I made a mental note to look around.
Good old Pops was ready with some of the locations.
He evidently had time to look up the menu at Jethro's Pork Chop Grill and told me about the Maid-Rite stores that sold the loose meat.
I googled each.
For dinner I had a loose meat type sandwich with a side of rattlesnake pasta.
(No, it's not real rattlesnake - it was a mac and cheese type dish with jalapenos and some other spices mixed in).
Good stuff.
But I was still curious about the Maid-Rite phenomenon.
I visited the job and was at the site until nearly lunch time.
I visited Google and the Maid-Rite was within a couple of miles.
Loose Meat Here I come!
The place was busy. It was also clean and well-lit and the red and white interior gave it an old-time diner feel. There were about 40 loose meat choices but I thought I'd go with the original.
I ordered two.
And much like it's name it's just loose hamburger meat on a standard hamburger bun.
I went with everything on it.
Onion, pickle and mustard.
Damn!
Those went down quick!
I kept looking at the menu.
I had a three hour drive left.
Miles of endless nothing.
I returned to the counter.
"They're good," the lady said, "aren't they?"
"Better give me one more."
She laughed.
"I can eat about 6 at a time," she said.
Loose Meat in Iowa.
Tom Arnold was right!
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