Midwestern Cuisine
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Beer Nuts
The Big Baby(double cheeseburger)
Chicago-style hot dog
Chicken Vesuvio
Corn dogs
Deep-dish pizza
Depression dog
Flaming saganaki
The Freddy(Italian sausage patty, long roll, red sauce, green pepper, mozzarella)
Fried turtle
Gyro cone
Harold’s chicken
The horseshoe(open-face burger, fries, and cheese sauce)
Italian beef
Jeppson’s Malort
The jibarito
The Jim Shoe, aka Gym Shoe(roast beef, corned beef, and gyros meat, chopped iceberg, tomato, “GUY-ro sauce,” and often mayonnaise or yellow mustard on sub roll)
The mother-in-law(corn roll tamale, hot dog bun, chili)
Rib tips and links
Shrimp de jonghe
Taco pizza
Tavern-style thin-crust pizza
Farm-raised shrimp
Persimmon pie
Pork tenderloin sandwich
Sugar cream pie
The Guinea grinder
Loose meat sandwiches
Kansas City barbecue
Zwieback(rolls)
Coney Island dog
The Cudighi(Italian sausage, mozzarella, tomato sauce on a roll)
Pasties
Pawpaws(fruit)
Sour cherry pie
Vernors ginger ale
Booyah(a community stew)
Camel burger(ground camel meat)
The Hot Dago(Italian sausage, red sauce, mozzarella)
Hotdish(casserole)
The Juicy Lucy(a cheeseburger with the cheese inside the meat)
Lefse(flatbread)
Lutefisk(dried whitefish treated with lye)
Walleye
Barbecued snoot(pig nose)
Fried brain sandwiches
Gooey butter cake
Lambert’s throwed rolls
Saint Paul sandwich(egg foo yong, onion, pickle, lettuce, tomato, white bread)
The Slinger(a platter of eggs, hash browns, chili, cheese, and hamburger)
Toasted ravioli
The cheese Frenchie(deep-fried cheese sandwich)
Runza(bread pocket filled with meat or vegetables)
Chippers(chocolate-covered potato chips)
Juneberry pie
Pitchfork steak fondue(steak deep-fried in oil)
Buckeyes
Cincinnati chili
Graeter’s ice cream
Goetta(ground meat and oat sausage)
Opera creams
Polish boys
Sauerkraut balls
Bean bread
Chislic(meat skewers)
Forestburg melons(fruit)
Fry-bread tacos(tacos made with Native American fry bread)
Knoephla soup(chicken-potato soup)
Kuchen(fruit tart)
Lakota pemmican(dried meat, fat, and sometimes fruit)
Lakota popcorn
Tanka Bars(Lakota fruit-and-meat energy bars)
Beer cheese soup
Brandy old-fashioned
Brats
Cheese curds
Fish boil
Fish fry
Frozen custard
Hot ham and rolls
Limburger
Pickled ring bologna
Supper-club prime rib
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