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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Maid-Rite Corp. and Hy-Vee Inc. are planning to open several sandwich shops at Hy-Vee convenience stories across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies said Tuesday. Maid-Rite opened ...

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, ...

You don't have to love loose-meat sandwiches. You don't have to hate them. But at some point you're going to get offered one. Maid-Rite is ingrained in the DNA of Iowa. Just like you have to renew ...

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 kitchen table throughout my Midwestern ...

Apparently there isn't an Iowan on staff over at Thrillist. You're really going to diss Iowa's popular loose-meat sandwiches? Wil Fulton, a writer at Thrillist, examined the "grossest, weirdest foods ...

The Iowa restaurant that wants the state legislature to exempt it from important food safety rules says its way of making loose meat sandwiches has never made anyone sick. Taylor’s Maid-Rite in ...

The Barn is a longtime restaurant off Washingon Street that is popular with locals and known for its friendly staff and pies. The Barn in Brainerd was opened in 1945 by a family from Iowa. It was part ...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee Inc. and Maid-Rite Corp. this week opened the first of several sandwich shops they're planning for Hy-Vee convenience stores across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies ...

Taylor’s Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, the restaurant that tried unsuccessfully to get itself exempted by Iowa’s Legislature from some state food safety rules, continues to operate in violation of the ...

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