Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 4—When word got around that donuts would be returning to the Newton Maid-Rite breakfast menu starting April 1, there were ...

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 ...

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 ...

The loose-meat Maid-Rite Sandwich at The Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe in Greenville made the Mental_Floss list of "The Best Burgers in All 50 States." But it's not a burger, which by definition, consists ...

COLUMBUS — Sandwiches made the right way. That is what Maid-Rite promises when it serves up its first loose-meat sandwich in Columbus. The Des Moines, Iowa-based franchise hopes to open here in four ...

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, ...

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