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 ...

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. THE NEWTON TRADITION LIVES ON THE MADE RIGHT HERE IN NEWTON IS BACK OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND WE WERE KIND OF CRUSHED TO FIND OUT THAT IT HAD CLOSED. BUT THEN JUST LAST NIGHT, WE ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The old Maid Rite space in Uptown Marion is set to become the new home for The Purple Wagon.

Apparently there isn't an Iowan on staff over at Thrillist. You're really going to diss Iowa's popular loose-meat sandwiches? Wil Fulton, a writer at Thrillist, examined the "grossest, weirdest foods ...

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia. — The iconic Taylor's Maid-Rite survived the tornado that came to town Thursday — and its workers soon began slinging meat to feed the rescuers who flocked into town. Elizabeth ...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee Inc. and Maid-Rite Corp. this week opened the first of several sandwich shops they're planning for Hy-Vee convenience stores across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies ...

massive water main break and water supply is limited in the city. New tonight --- The Maid-Rite at the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines ran out of food Sunday after a busy weekend. The boom in business ...

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