The hill that CW will die on?

CyPhallus

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Most maid rite stores have meh maid rite. If you want to taste good maid rites go to these shops who do them right and have for 80 plus years:
Dan's Sandwich Shop, Newton
Canteen, Ottumwa
I haven't been to Taylors, Marshalltown in years, but they were in the same league as the Canteen and Dan's.

There is absolutely no comparison to other "maid rite" shops.
For sloppy joes, the secret ingredient is sugar.
These are the only 3 "Maid Rite" style places Iowa that are worth a ****. Everything else is trash and are sloppy joe joints, especially the corporate franchised Maid Rite garbage shops.
 
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Haven’t had one in years but Starbucks(not the chain)in Nevada used to have a decent jumbo beef burger which was a loose meat sando. Used to get one of those with cheese balls and a shake, good stuff.

Not a huge sloppy Joe fan but this sloppy grilled cheese looks amazing.

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Adding Nacho Cheese to a sloppy joe is clutch.
 

CyPhallus

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You shut your filthy sloppy joe filled mouth, Syphilis.
I don't blame rural Iowa for their obsession with the god awful sloppy joe. I would assume in many of these communities something like an enema is very frowned upon religiously and sexually. The sloppy joe can fill that void in their time of need.
 
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Nothing like a taco rite from Maid-Rite with a bag of Sterzing's potato chips to look back on and feel nostalgic, however both Maid-Rite and Sterzing's have been on a downhill slide when it comes to quality, for at least the last decade.
 

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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.
That’s essentially a maid-rite although maid-rites with the proper steam cooking are probably slightly better.

They’re good though.
 
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Maid-Rite: no sauce, possible onions and seasoning only
Sloppy Joe: Contains manwich or another tomatoy flavor
Tavern: like a sloppy joe, but has a sweater flavor - has brown sugar & a little mustard.
 
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t-noah

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ok ok. are we talking nacho cheese doritos? or like plain lays like some psycho
I thought that was your specialty? :D
I don't blame rural Iowa for their obsession with the god awful sloppy joe. I would assume in many of these communities something like an enema is very frowned upon religiously and sexually. The sloppy joe can fill that void in their time of need.
We are bringing two important 'openings' together here. I do not like where this is going!

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