{"id":13994,"date":"2015-04-09T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2015-04-09T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:10:36","slug":"maid-rite-review-springfield-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13994","title":{"rendered":"Maid Rite Review – Springfield, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maid<\/a>Maid Rite is the brand name for a franchised group of restaurants that sell what is generically referred to as “loose meat sandwiches<\/a>.” \u00a0 Created by a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, there are plus\/minus a hundred outlets in the Upper Midwest selling Maid Rite type sandwiches, whether they are paying to use the name, or not.<\/p>\n

If you are not from, or have traveled through the Upper Midwest, you still may have heard to this specialty via telecoms: \u00a0Roseanne used to refer to them, and her and (then ) husband started a restaurant to sell them in his home town of Ottuma, Iowa, which was also the fictional home town of Cpl Radar O’Reilly on MASH.<\/p>\n

So what the heck are they? \u00a0Crumbled ground beef, cooked on a steam table with a bit of mustard and finely diced onions stirred on. \u00a0A scoop is placed on a lightly steamed hamburger bun, and there you are. Ketchup and mustard on the tables.<\/p>\n

I stopped into one of the first ones, in Springfield, IL, on the old Route 66; \u00a0the Springfield outlet is also credited with having the first fast food drive through in America. \u00a0It’s on the National Historic Register, in fact.<\/p>\n

Their menu is simple: \u00a0Maid rites, Cheese maid rites, hot dogs, fries, soft drinks including a house-brew root beer. \u00a0Lunch is gonna cost you about $7.00. I actually think it’s kinda spendy for what it is. \u00a0BTW? \u00a0Be sure you pay attention to the “rules,” when dining in house (below).<\/p>\n

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Original Maid Rite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dine in rules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Maid Rite Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maid Rite is the brand name for a franchised group of restaurants that sell what is generically referred to as “loose meat sandwiches.” \u00a0 Created by a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, there are plus\/minus a hundred outlets in the Upper Midwest selling Maid Rite type sandwiches, whether they are paying to use the name, or… Continue reading Maid Rite Review – Springfield, IL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,25],"tags":[190,1875,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}