Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two ...

Greenville's Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe is known for its steamed loose-meat sandwiches. The shop opened in 1934. LISA POWELL / STAFF Since the late 1930s people have stuck chewing gum on the brick ...

A Springfield eatery continues to thrive despite changes to the food industry. A Maid-Rite sandwich is steamed loose ...

DES MOINES Iowa Maid-Rite Corp. has partnered with Hy-Vee Inc. to open loose-meat sandwich shops in Hy-Vee’s convenience stores. The first Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe Express opened Nov. 26 in Omaha, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Maid-Rite Corp. and Hy-Vee Inc. are planning to open several sandwich shops at Hy-Vee convenience stories across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies said Tuesday. Maid-Rite opened ...

The Barn is a longtime restaurant off Washingon Street that is popular with locals and known for its friendly staff and pies. The Barn in Brainerd was opened in 1945 by a family from Iowa. It was part ...

I grew up in southern Iowa where deer and pheasant nibbled in corn fields for as far as the eye can squint and bass and catfish swirled in backyard ponds. The kitchen table throughout my Midwestern ...

More than eighty years after Maid-Rite got its start in Muscatine, Iowa, the chain has finally made it as far west as Denver, where Ralph’s Maid-Rite Sports Diner opened last week in Littleton.

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...