Who’s this “Dimitri” fella I keep hearing about?

My raccoon story didn’t have as happy an ending.

A couple months after moving into my current house we noticed a terrible smell coming from our fireplace. I thought maybe a bird had died or something at the top of the chimney. Nope. Turns out the previous owners didn’t install a chimney cap and a fat raccoon crawled…

Lived in Cedar Rapids Iowa 10 years now. Breaded Pork Tenderloin sandwiches are as staple at most tavern style restaurants around here, and they all basically look like what you see in that picture, giant tenderloin, comically undersized bun. I would argue that Casey’s Breakfast Pizza is more “hyped” than the taco…

My daughter’s public elementary school had a population with a reasonably wide variety of backgrounds. Many first generation in the US. Every other year the school (well, the PTO) put on an “International Festival” where folks could bring in their food for sharing, have tables set up in the gym with interesting things…

Iowan here. The tenderloin is an Iowa thing, and I love them, but I don’t know anyone who eats them regularly. It’s a big, heavy, sandwich. I might eat 2-3 a year. Most people I know also don’t tuck in for an enormous plate of hash browns, biscuits, and gravy with eggs and bacon on a daily basis. Maybe once a week…

I live in Wisconsin, and I eat basically the same thing as the half Momoa every three months or so. I’d gladly eat it every Saturday if I wasn’t trying to get in shape.

On the regular is too strong. Thats like asking if you eat fish tacos 7 days a week.

regular like once a week having one of those then yeah. personally i’m not a fan of taco pizza or tenderloins and there’s a lot of better food here in des moines than what was mentioned in the article.

CA/NY person relocated to Iowa. Yes. They do.

Yeah, I’ve lived in Iowa for 20 years, and I still haven’t had a pork tenderloin.  Makes my stomach turn.  Taco pizza is an occasional treat, for sure.  More people eat biscuits and gravy out here than is appropriate, and the state fair certainly features the least healthy food possible, but I don’t think it’s…

Yes, we do. I grew up in Norwalk (yes, home of Aquaman *and* Superman) and we ate at Smitty’s quite a lot (when it was in an even less reputable building closer to the airport). And I ate at Waveland Cafe a couple of times when golfing at the nearby golf course. I’m not sure I’ve ever had taco pizza from Casey’s, but…

Got to love we are looking to these guys for the future of leadership when most of their recipes use the word ‘bigger’ or the sentence ‘put more shit on top of your otherwise fine shit’

I’m from Chicago, lived in D.C. for a while, and then moved to Wisconsin a few years ago. Everything is covered in dairy here. You cannot find a salad on a menu without cheese, ranch, cheese sauce/creamy dressing, or (more often than not) some combination thereof. It’s wild.

Yep its totally normal. I grew up there, about 1hr from Des Moines. The guys I worked with would eat that tenderloin on a weekly (if not daily) basis.  Everyone boasts about having the biggest one, and they far out-do the tenderloins youll find in Indiana (who also claims to make bigger/better ones).  That being…

Depends on where you are in the Midwest. Chicago and its less trashy suburbs? Not so much.

That first dish was pretty standard diner breakfast fare, if all in one meal. But the other two things? Not to such an extent. Breaded meat cutlets are pretty common on a lot of “American” restaurant dinner menus especially in the Midwest, which I would attribute to the high German immigrant population. Taco pizza is…

People in the midwest do eat them on the regular. Unfortunately it’s probably also a major reason Iowa has the 7th largest obesity rate in the US at 35.3%.

I do appreciate a place that actually cooks their hash browns and doesn’t merely heat them up, but damn.

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Oh man, we in the Asian community should absolutely do this when yet another white person decides to write a fictional novel about people in China/Japan/etc during [insert time period here] which is inevitably loved by other white people. At least nowadays some Asian voices are finally being heard but it was basically …