The hill that CW will die on?

[HFCS]

When you described the place I about fell out of my highchair. I was a regular in '73 & "74 fresh out of college and coaching in the area. I would be shocked if the same family own and operate it today. I would go there to get out of the school district I was coaching in and have a beer with the college crowd and folks my age. Vietnam was going on and the State of Iowa allowed 18 year olds due to the draft, legal drinking. One Saturday night, when I walked in, several of my senior football players were at the bar and waved me over and bought me a beer. I laughed and accepted.

Pretty fascinating they allowed you to drink at 18 during Vietnam.

I know a lot of my friends and fam in SC who aren’t regulars will still randomly stop in at Miles once in a while mainly for Charlie boy. I lived right near there for a year after ISU when I was looking for jobs and hung out there that year, seemed like a lot of mside kids and local neighborhood adults.

 

[Al_4_State]

My wife makes sloppy joes fairly regularly (her family called them taverns and they're from New Hampton, so not exclusively NW IA) and instead of putting them on a bun, I toss some shredded cheese and peppers in and eat them with chips like a dip.

 

[Freebird]

They're both ******* gross so......

 

[dafarmer]

Eating a dry, loose meat sandwich is like watching Iowa's offense, blah.

 

[baller21]

Eating a dry, loose meat sandwich is like watching Iowa's offense, blah.

I mean if you ate it dry sure. That’s why you put ketchup, mustard, pickles and onion on it.

 

[Jeff51106]

At last, something to draw a line in the sand over!!!

 

[NickTheGreat]

My school in SW Iowa had maid-rites and sloppy joes on the menu. They were the same thing. An ice cream scoop of ketchup/meat dust/saw dust on a bun. They were palatable if you put an equal amount of dill pickles on top.

My mom would also make them and while she was a good cook, I didn't like them either.

I haven't had either since I left home. Decades ago!

 

[Cyismymonkey]

The Canteen in the Alley In Ottumwa, (approximately 15 seats)serve a great loose meat sandwich. The ladies cook with an ancient rectangular steel box heated by an open gas flame. Can order anything you want as long as it’s a Canteen, Egg Sandwich or Malt. Extra moist is an option.

 

[swiacy]

Pretty fascinating they allowed you to drink at 18 during Vietnam.

I know a lot of my friends and fam in SC who aren’t regulars will still randomly stop in at Miles once in a while mainly for Charlie boy. I lived right near there for a year after ISU when I was looking for jobs and hung out there that year, seemed like a lot of mside kids and local neighborhood adults.

The Vietnam war had drug on so long that the Government had got to the point of having to draft 18 year olds right after HS graduation. It didn’t sit well with someone being shot at with the risk of death and not being allowed to sit in a bar with a cold one while on furlough back home in Iowa. Politicians blinked. It didn’t last long because there were lots of boys turning 18 during their senior year and buying beer for all their buddies under age.

 

[GoStateGuy]

If Williams can be so wrong about hamburger - why should we believe anything he says about sports ?

 

[HFCS]

My school in SW Iowa had maid-rites and sloppy joes on the menu. They were the same thing. An ice cream scoop of ketchup/meat dust/saw dust on a bun. They were palatable if you put an equal amount of dill pickles on top.

My mom would also make them and while she was a good cook, I didn't like them either.

I haven't had either since I left home. Decades ago!

Sioux City public schools taverns were not tomato flavored at all, but they were also nothing like the popular tavern/loose meat icons in Sioux City. They almost had a thick gravy flavor to them, I actually liked them better than sloppy joes or the popular tavern places. They had the consistency where they'd use an ice cream scooper and it would hold the round shape of the scooper until you mashed the bun onto it.

 

[t-noah]

Excuse me? Runzas are a gift from God.

I smell a Runza thread?

Don't know what they are. I won't look it up, and see what happens.

That sandwich is common in nw Iowa but often called a tavern or loose meat around there. I hadn’t heard of “maid rite” at all until I got to Ames but when I did I was like “oh it’s a tastee/Charlie boy/loose meat/tavern”.

I know the TV show Roseanne had a few seasons where they ran a loose meat sandwich restaurant in fictional Lanford Illinois.

I'm the other way around. Now I know what a loose meat, etc. is. LOL

Eating a dry, loose meat sandwich is like watching Iowa's offense, blah.

Like I said, not dry, not dry; very moist/steamed is the best.

I mean if you ate it dry sure. That’s why you put ketchup, mustard, pickles and onion on it.

And that too, yes!!!

My school in SW Iowa had maid-rites and sloppy joes on the menu. They were the same thing. An ice cream scoop of ketchup/meat dust/saw dust on a bun. They were palatable if you put an equal amount of dill pickles on top.

My mom would also make them and while she was a good cook, I didn't like them either.

I haven't had either since I left home. Decades ago!

Not. A. Maid-Rite!!! Hahaha.

If Williams can be so wrong about hamburger - why should we believe anything he says about sports ?

Hm. There is some logic here.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

My wife makes sloppy joes fairly regularly (her family called them taverns and they're from New Hampton, so not exclusively NW IA) and instead of putting them on a bun, I toss some shredded cheese and peppers in and eat them with chips like a dip.

wtf

 

[t-noah]

My wife makes sloppy joes fairly regularly (her family called them taverns and they're from New Hampton, so not exclusively NW IA) and instead of putting them on a bun, I toss some shredded cheese and peppers in and eat them with chips like a dip.

wtf

Yes. So wrong!! Al_4_State should get a week ban!

 

[KnappShack]

Yes. So wrong!! Al_4_State should get a week ban!

That's literally a dip....

 

[Dr.bannedman]

your a dip (****)

 

[Jer]

My wife makes sloppy joes fairly regularly (her family called them taverns and they're from New Hampton, so not exclusively NW IA) and instead of putting them on a bun, I toss some shredded cheese and peppers in and eat them with chips like a dip.

Dude, you’re in the wrong thread. That goes in the **** Nobody Should Eat thread.

 

[cybychoice]

If anyone is in Austin Minnesota stop at the Tender Maid, they have a solid loose meat sandwich menu and good shakes

 

[t-noah]

That's literally a dip....

We will start a new thread.

Look for it!!

your a dip (****)

You be nice!

 

[Dr.bannedman]

My wife makes sloppy joes fairly regularly (her family called them taverns and they're from New Hampton, so not exclusively NW IA) and instead of putting them on a bun, I toss some shredded cheese and peppers in and eat them with chips like a dip.

ok ok. are we talking nacho cheese doritos? or like plain lays like some psycho