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Dishonorable Mention: Come on Iowa, really? A Loose Meat sandwich?
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I know! I thought we’d get the pork tenderloin, but that went to Indiana.
But some Iowans really love their Maid-rites.
Agreed that the reasoning is flawed, but not their decision. DiNic’s roast pork with broccli rabe and aged provolone is what a very, very good cheesesteak gets to be in its next life. I hated it when the sandwich won the “best sandwich in the country” competition on The Travel Channel. Lunch lines at the stand are commonly hour-plus now.
Listening to Warren today.
I know it’s kind of self-inflicted, but WI is stuck with the brat! Yeech, what a vile sandwich.
More recently we’ve contributed the Butterburger, a truly fine, if ultimately fatal, sandwich.
Are you seriously saying that Culver’s fast-food burger is better than a good brat? A good brat is an ethereal thing. Culver’s is not even that great if you’re only comparing fast-food burgers IMO.
I’ve had such respect for you, Boyo Jim, after you gave such good representation at the Bulwer-Lyttons. But I’m going to have to rethink my admiration after this post. 
Culvers is up there, IMHO, with the best fast food hamburger chains. There’s better butterburgers to be had in Wisconsin, though.
That said, Wisconsin’s brats trump their burgers. I’m just wondering why they went for the smoked brat. I like a nice unsmoked Sheboygan brat myself. Or at least split the difference between burgers and brats with the Sheboygan brat burger.
I was pleased and surprised that they chose the Beef on Weck to represent New York. I had figured they would pick something from New York City and ignore upstate New York as is usually the case with things like this.
Perhaps because I’m not originally from Wisconsin I never gained an affinity for their vile brat things. OTOH, I love fresh squeaky cheese curds!
They got North Carolina right with vinegar-based pulled pork* but i can’t see how there’s any way South Carolina can be anything but a Piggie Park sandwich. Maaaayyyyyyybe a Palmetto cheese burger.
*Screw you, Lexington.
Went to Culver’s once, never again. Yuck!!
Florida The Cuban - my second favorite sandwich ever (the first would be the banh mi).
Maine Lobster Roll - what’s not to like?
New Jersey Italian Sub - can never go wrong with one of these.
Maryland Lake Trout - it ain’t from a lake, it ain’t trout, and it’s full of bones so it might just kill you. One of those things you just have to grow up with.
South Carolina The Bacon of the Month BLT - BLT is always the right answer.
Steak Sandwich Supreme from Del Rancho. No one eats at Cattleman’s for lunch anymore, except for people who need to be at the stockyards during the day and 80 yr old small time oil barons. Dinner/Supper is a different story.
The Del Rancho version is AWESOME! A bit pricey for fast(ish) food, but if ever in the state, it’s worth a try.
I agree with the Texas brisket choice, too.
An alternate for OK, TX, and many of the Southern states I’ve been to would be a pulled pork BBQ sandwich.
The Colorado “Denver Sandwich” choice is just patently ridiculous.
Yeah, that was a cop out. A Buffalo Burger was always my choice at Wynkoop when I lived there.
It’s a sandwich from a restaurant called the Staggering Ox.
The bread is a hollow cylindrical shape they call a clubfoot, and it has 3 different meats and 3 different cheeses. It was named a top ten sandwich my Maxim magazine.
Had lunch there on Saturday… yum!
I cannot take seriously a list that has, as its emblematic New York sandwich, something called the “Beef on Weck” rather than a pastrami sandwich from Katz’s.
shrug Different strokes. I put it up there with In N Out and Five Guys (and I’m not the only one), but it’s a little bit different with the butteriness of it. The only thing I’ve ever had at Culver’s that sucked was their pork tenderloin sandwich.
I’m not a big Culver’s fan either, and there’s one about a mile from my house. Then again, I’m not really a fast food fan at all, so I’m hardly a good judge. I stay home and make a box of Kraft Dinner if I want cheap and bad-for-me food.
Edit: or I have a brat!
I dunno, there’s days that nothing but a fast food burger will hit the spot for me. I’m a sucker for that style. In N Out will forever be my favorite. Culver’s is probably number two or three. And then there are a bunch local joints that serve some fantastically greasy griddled burgers (like the “Big Baby”–an oniony double cheeseburger from my part of the city, just a bit over $2 a pop at that and I don’t have to stink up my kitchen). I can make them at home (and I sometimes do), but it just ain’t the same. A burger off a seasoned griddle that has seen thousands upon thousands of burgers and onions thrown on it…that’s a little bit of heaven to me.