Randomness for 8/26

Wait -- Fluffernutters weren't invented in the 1960s? I had no idea they went back farther under another name.

I'm from Massachusetts. I remember when they were immensely popular with my friends, but I never cared for them.

I remember hot browns from when we lived in Kentucky; you really can't get a good one anywhere outside Louisville.

I'm a bit surprised they didn't mention muffalettas, or Philly cheese steak, or any of several other local specialties I'm familiar with.

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lwe

Aug. 26th, 2015 07:53 pm (UTC)

Oh -- and I never saw a chow mein sandwich in Massachusetts, but there's a place in Des Moines, Iowa, that makes them.

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burger_eater

Aug. 26th, 2015 08:23 pm (UTC)

I've never even HEARD of chow mein sandwiches before.

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lwe

Aug. 26th, 2015 09:24 pm (UTC)

I never heard of them until we ate at that weird place in south Des Moines. It's nominally a Chinese restaurant, but it's been there over sixty years and has become a strange mutant hybrid of Cantonese and Midwestern Americana, serving things like egg fu young in beef gravy.

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burger_eater

Aug. 26th, 2015 11:04 pm (UTC)

o.0 <-- all I have to say

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burger_eater

Aug. 26th, 2015 08:24 pm (UTC)

I wonder if cheese steaks are too mainstream for an article like this.

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lwe

Aug. 26th, 2015 09:25 pm (UTC)

Could be. Or maybe it was just one of those, "Oh, jeez, how'd we miss that?" moments that come up when making lists like this.