Category: Sandwiches
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Food Club Brand Spanish Olives Review
Food Club Brand Spanish Olives Review It’s hard to explain this company, you practically need to use Ancestry dot com to understand the hierarchy, but I’ll give it a shot. —Food Club is one of dozens of brands of a privately held Chicago company called Topco Associates LLC. –Topco is a co-op. That is, it […]
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Sonic Drive In “Slingers” Review – Nationwide Chain in 46 States
Can’t say who thought of this concept, but naturally the “Mushroom Council” is excited about it. The idea is to use finely diced mushrooms and seasonings as an extender for beef with a two-fold goal: to make hamburgers juicier and more flavorful, and also to do a bit for the environment – if we’re using […]
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Great Value Smoked Ham Lunchmeat Review – A WalMart Product
I write a lot about ham, it seems. Because I love it. I love premium hams and have driven background all over the country in search of small processors, and been very successful in Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Missouri. I have quite a few reviews of very expensive ham, as well as very cheap […]
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Buona Beef Grocery Review
I’ve written a lot about Chicago’s Italian Beef sandwich. The easiest way to explain it to those not familiar is to say it’s a highly seasoned French Dip, but the “Dip” part is not on the side but involves dunking the entire sandwich in au jus (only if desired). You can read my explanation of […]
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Lunch Mate Cooked Ham Review – An Aldi Branded Product
I have reviewed quite a few products found at Aldi, a global grocery retailer that focuses on value-priced items. They are able to achieve lower costs by largely staying away from big brand names, and instead, creating their own brands and contracting the manufacture and packaging of them to quality co-packers and producers. This product […]
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Buena Vista Restaurant Review – Algonquin, IL
I rarely go out for Mexican food; exception would be if I’m deep in an area of a big city with a heavy Mexican population. Traveling the world, you get spoiled on “authentic” cuisine and disappointed about the Americanized version of same. At least I do. Same after I lived in China. Never been in […]
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Buona Beef Restaurants Review – Chicago area
About thirty years ago, Chicagoan Joe Buonavolanto Senior had a notion to open a restaurant serving Chicago specialties – Italian beef and sausages, hot dogs, ribs, sandwiches and pizza. He took a 2nd mortgage out on his house to finance it, and did some of the initial construction with his own hands. Today, the third generation […]
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Mardi Gras 2018 New Orleans in Poem
(From my archives) Mardi Gras 2018 New Orleans in Poem I had never been to a Mardi Gras celebration until I moved to New Orleans. What I learned living there, is that for the locals, it’s a great opportunity for family activities, far away from the tourism debauchery in the Quarter. I was ‘inspired’ one […]
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Navigating the Iowa Tenderloin Trail
The “pork tenderloin” is a sandwich unique to Iowa……and also Indiana. Go figure. You take a boneless pork chop, hammer it thin-like with a mallet, dip it in batter, serve it on a hamburger bun one-tenth the size of the meat. Restaurants vary the batter recipes and seasonings. The “trick” seems to be to get […]
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Pork Tenderloin Recipe
Pork “tenderloins” are an Iowa thing. And Indiana thing. We’ll leave it at that. It’s a boneless pork chop, hammered with a mallet to make it larger and thinner, dipped in batter and deep-fried, served on a hamburger bun about 1/10th the size of the ‘loin. You might also call it wienerschnitzel, of a sort. […]