Makes me miss the “Haystack” from college. A place called the Home Stretch, which has since closed, used to make the finest drunk food known to man. It was:
A large bed of of hash brown potatoes, topped with a 1/2 pound cheese burger patty, topped with peppery sausage gravy and then topped with 2 eggs, any style.
Makes me drool just thinking about it. Makes me want to shotgun a beer too.
Ahh, Detroit. Home to more coney island restaurants than just about anywhere on earth. And the favorite artery-clogging dish at every one of them? Chili Cheese Fries. Take a large plate of greasy fries, bury 'em in coney dog chili, and top with cheese – add onions and mustard to the top if you like… YUM!
My personal creation is eaten once a year at our family reunion’s Sunday morning Uncle Harold’s Pancake Breakfast. Start with four good sized pancakes (blueberry if ya got 'em) top with butter, then peanut butter (family tradition - I always eat my pancakes with peanut butter - try it, you’ll see!) a runny fried egg, and lots of Mrs. Butterworths on top (don’t waste the good maple syrup on this stack). Bacon can go on the side or on top, whichever you like!
Poutine, but I don’t make it at home and haven’t had it in years.
Pizza, over which I have no control in eating.
I hoovered down some nachos at the last Dopefest but in fairness, it was my first real “meal” of the day.
The thing about the heart-attack/screw it type food is that I’m generally very very clean living (as in I don’t drink, exercise every day, don’t eat processed foods or red meat, watch my weight obsessively…positively nun like) so eating them makes me feel like crap about 5 seconds after I’m done glutting and then I spend the next three hours clutching my stomach and complaining vociferously. But get me near a plate of poutine and I’ll be sure to hoover it down in 5.
What is it about some foods that you’ll eat them KNOWING regret will settle in quickly?
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Makes me miss the “Haystack” from college. A place called the Home Stretch, which has since closed, used to make the finest drunk food known to man. It was:
A large bed of of hash brown potatoes, topped with a 1/2 pound cheese burger patty, topped with peppery sausage gravy and then topped with 2 eggs, any style.
Makes me drool just thinking about it. Makes me want to shotgun a beer too.
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HOO-wahhhh!
OOoh… I just remembered an ice-cream-sundae type of concoction that a friend would make back in high school.
It consisted of filling a very large metal mixing bowl with a combination of chocolate or mocha ice cream, whipped cream, caramel sauce, good-quality hot fudge sauce, crumbled brownies, and anything else that might catch our fancy (like marshmallows or nuts or the like).
Gather around bowl with 4-5 of your good friends, hand out spoons to each participant, and dig in.
I sure could go for one of these right about now, but my metabolism doesn’t like me any more. 
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Ahh, Detroit. Home to more coney island restaurants than just about anywhere on earth. And the favorite artery-clogging dish at every one of them? Chili Cheese Fries. Take a large plate of greasy fries, bury 'em in coney dog chili, and top with cheese – add onions and mustard to the top if you like… YUM!
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OK - now I am hungry…
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Makes me miss the “Haystack” from college. A place called the Home Stretch, which has since closed, used to make the finest drunk food known to man. It was:
A large bed of of hash brown potatoes, topped with a 1/2 pound cheese burger patty, topped with peppery sausage gravy and then topped with 2 eggs, any style.
Makes me drool just thinking about it. Makes me want to shotgun a beer too.
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Sounds like the Barnyard Buster at Tee Jayes. Two biscuits, two eggs, country fries all smothered in gravy. I had that more than once at 3 or so am.
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Marlboro Man’s Favorite Sandwich, courtesy of Pioneer Woman, a clever and talented blog writer who lives and cooks somewhere in the great American west and is married to a hunky rancher (the aforementioned Marlboro Man).
In this sandwich, quite a lot of butter is involved. Actually, most of her recipes involve way, way WAY too much butter. I also recommend her Apple Dumplings, if you’re interested in browsing around her site. Much sugar and a can of Mountain Dew is involved.
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I have a new girl-crush.
Tom Dooley. That’s a cheeseburger, with a fried egg on top. Lettuce and tomato optional, but if so, a goodly dollop of Mayo should go along.
With fries.
Damn, I’m hungry.
Tris
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Home fries with bacon and sour cream.
Fry bacon. Use the bacon fat to fry potatoes and onions. Serve with crumbled bacon and sour cream.
Oh. My. God.
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I want a Philly Cheesesteak (provolone, with sauce and onions) and this on the side.
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Sounds like the Barnyard Buster at Tee Jayes. Two biscuits, two eggs, country fries all smothered in gravy. I had that more than once at 3 or so am.
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The cheeseburger in the middle is a pretty important distinction I think.
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There’s the Horseshoe from Springfield, St. Louis also has a “Slinger.”
A Slinger is a hamburger patty, covered with hash browns, covered with a couple eggs (any style), covered with chili, covered with onions and cheese. There’s a breakfast version (that I’ve seen served in other places as a “Haystack”) that replaces the hamburger with sausage and the chili with gravy and omits the onions.
Ross’ Diner in Bettendorf, IA (one of the Quad Cities), has a “Magic Mountain”, which is grilled texas toast covered in their “loose meat” hamburger, covered in hash browns or french fries, covered in cheese. They also have a “Volcano” which is the same thing with their (very spicy, for a restaurant) chili on top.
The Midwest is the master of heart attack on a plate food.
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HEY! I just had a Magic Mountain at Ross’s a few weeks ago (well, about a month now). I stayed at The Abbey just up the hill from Ross’s!
While I was back in Iowa, I also had to have a maid-rite, pork tenderloin sandwich, and catfich dinner at the KC’s.
Check out Guy Fieri’s show on the Food Network, “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives”. You can see some serious HAOAP offerings to the clientele. I’m surprised that no one’s keeled over onscreen after eating one of those belly busters.
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Marlboro Man’s Favorite Sandwich, courtesy of Pioneer Woman, a clever and talented blog writer who lives and cooks somewhere in the great American west and is married to a hunky rancher (the aforementioned Marlboro Man).
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Hers is the only blog I visit almost every single day. She is such a talented writer!
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Hers is the only blog I visit almost every single day. She is such a talented writer!
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I’m making her brisket tomorrow. I’ve never made brisket before, but her pictures looked so good.
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Scotch Eggs
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DAMN, that sounds good. I want one for breakfast!
Hmm…2 favorites from back home in Pittsburgh:
Lounge Fries - A heaping pile of french fries covered in a multitude of shredded cheeses and bacon with ranch dressing on the side. I’m a sucker for cheese covered fries, but there’s a fine line with the cheese too much and the fries disintegrate and not enough it’s like why bother?
O Fries from the Original O with a philly cheesteak with onions/peppers/mushrooms…oh…my…gawd…
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I’m making her brisket tomorrow. I’ve never made brisket before, but her pictures looked so good.
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The brisket, by the way, was awesome. Which is good, because we’ll be eating it for the rest of our natural lives. Made it with her roasted garlic mashed potatoes, which have a secret ingredient - cream cheese. Equally awesome.
Food of the gods
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And one reason why I love it so.
My favorite is three sunny side up eggs, a pile of greasy (they must be greasy) hashbrowns, and four sausage links. Cut everything up and mix them together. Salt heavily. Eat. Enjoy this with a side of biscuits and sausage gravy (with extra gravy).
Yum. If Denny’s hadn’t gotten so expensive, I’d eat this all the time!
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I came in here to list something similar.
My favorite plate from iHop:
Country fried steak with gravy, hash browns, 3 eggs, 3 pancakes with butter and syrup, coffee
Luckily I only get iHop while traveling, and there’s not one near my house.
