Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two ...

This will become your go-to dinner, too. Adobe Stock For almost 100 years, Maid-Rite (or Maid Rite) sandwiches have been a cornerstone of quick Midwestern cooking. With a filling that is too loose to ...

So, the deal with Maid-Rite is it’s really old (85ish) and their meat is loose. And apparently the funny naming homophones are simply attributed to the original founder’s inability to spell — not that ...

When Taco Bell beats out Culver’s on best fast food in America, you know we have problem. Time Out, a media outlet focused on dining, entertainment and the arts, published in January their best ...

It takes me back to my Iowa childhood. I grew up in southern Iowa where deer and pheasant nibbled in corn fields for as far as the eye can squint and bass and catfish swirled in backyard ponds. The ...

DES MOINES Iowa Maid-Rite Corp. has partnered with Hy-Vee Inc. to open loose-meat sandwich shops in Hy-Vee’s convenience stores. The first Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe Express opened Nov. 26 in Omaha, ...

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