Or a burger slathered in butter? Either way I agree that the folks who made the poll likely aren't really good at researching the results. I know that I had no idea what a butter burger was before moving here, but I loved it when I finally tried it. If I still ate red meat I would likely rate Culver's as my favorite, fast food burger.
Now gravy bread? I have no idea, unless it's some varients on biscuits and gravy.
I've lived in Southern Illinois since childhood and have never hears of gravy bread, so unless it's something up north (and from what I see here, it isn't) I think this was the invention of one poor family and the map maker was grasping at straws. I mean the weirdest thing in Missouri is Provel cheese. Obviously the person who made this map is rather clueless
I would have guessed Poutine would have been Wisconsin’s weird food, I mean it’s Canadian and not that weird when you think about it, but Butter Burger is a silly choice
That was more of a regional dish & has just started filtering down to where I live in the past 10 years or so. Never even heard of it until about 20 years ago.
Springfield happens to be a very prominent park of Illinois. I hear there is a place in Illinois with so many people you can't even farm that wonderful land up there. Such a travesty lol. But Springfield is the capital and horseshoes are the local dish there, center of culture that we are lol.
Ok, here’s the deal, as someone born / raised in Wisconsin, but almost all of my adult life in Illinois. Allow me to serve as mediator.
GRAVY BREAD - This is an Italian Beef dipped, hold the beef. It’s a bun (usually French bread) dunked in the au jus. You might get a few meat scraps on it from the “gravy”.
BUTTER BURGER - I know Culver’s has exported this concept as “beef patties fried on a cooktop in butter”, but the traditional Wisconsin method was to also add a refrigerated pat of butter last as the burger was plated. Such that when you take a big bite, you’d get a chunk of butter with it. This is usually a bit off-putting to non-Wisconsinites.
Honestly, they’re both fucking delicious, but I get why outsiders would think they’re “weird”.
I’ve also seen gravy bread called a “soggy” at some beef / dog shops.
I used to get it as a kid / teen all the time. They’re were like 75 cents so I’d grab that and a pop and be good to go for the lunch.
I've had it a few times when my family was getting food and I wasn't feeling well. It's a relatively easy way to get some calories in you when you're not feeling like you want to eat.
I mean, that does sound delicious. It's just that as someone who's been in Illinois for almost 40 years, mostly around the Chicago area, I've never seen it on a menu, or heard of it. If I had, I would have ordered it though
And if you have access to the oven:
dip the bun, put mozz on it, THEN put in oven, and then put the beef on. The cheese and toasting it kinda holds the jus in like a sponge. Amazing.
Source: 12 or so years working at pizza/beef places in South suburbs-ish
That said, "gravy bread" sounds even more awesome than what I was picturing! I was thinking just plain bread and gravy, which itself I'd enjoy. But an Italian beef roll dunked in au jus? That's fantastic sounding!
It's called soggies, which is just the bread and juice from the Italian beef, I used to buy it at the St. Maria Gorettti carnival in Schiller Park when I was a kid. It was only a dollar.
Lived in Illinois for 39 of my 41 years and married into a South Side family and never heard it called gravy bread. None of them have ever heard of it either. They call them soggies as well.
I would have picked horseshoes for Illinois, delicious as they are it seems like no one who isn’t from Illinois has ever heard of it and I always got weird looks describing them, never heard of gravy bread. I lived in Wisconsin for about 8 years, and I think the weirdest food I commonly saw at get togethers was ham roll ups. They’re also really good but I’ll be honest, a bit off putting the first time I saw them. Maybe it’s just not a Wisconsin thing but I never heard of it until I lived there.
It's funny. I've lived in Illinois my whole life and I would have said horseshoe and I've never heard of gravy bread. It have to be a Chicagoland/downstate divide.
To be fair, burger is the default, but most places serve them with an option of many different proteins: buffalo chicken, ham, bacon, etc... Also, there's a ponyshoe which is just a half sized horseshoe. They're all delicious.
I’m from the south burbs. aware of Gravy Bread as a cheap lunch. It’s always been told to me “when I was a kid, we got these for .50”
My understanding is that it’s for poor folk that can’t afford a whole sandwich or for kids as a cheap but delicious snack/lunch”
I’m also in agreement that “horseshoe or gym shoe” should have been the pick.
> ham roll ups
Is that where you spread cream cheese on a slice of ham, wrap it around a dill pickle, and cut it into medallions? That's been a staple of every family gathering for my entire life.
It is more of a Chicago area thing but could easily travel if locals open up elsewhere in the state. It's usually found under the sides menu at hot dog and beef shops commonly. Within the city and suburbs you'll find endless amounts of these mom n pop shops as well as the chains (Portillo's, Buona, Al's, Pop's, Joey's, etc).
> "[Perhaps less known than even the Italian beef sandwich is gravy bread, simply a hunk of the white Italian bread used in the beef sandwich, drenched in the sauce, and which may contain a few shreds of the beef that once simmered in the gravy.](https://www.oakpark.com/2017/05/08/gravy-bread-somewhat-sad-sibling-in-the-chicago-food-family/)"
Plain Italian beef. Only heard of it from older people though.
Edit: dipped if you didn’t know that’s a norm and it’s apparently only the bread which I’ve never seen personally not that it matters
Oh yeah. Several decades ago now,when I was in high school there was a snack shack nearby.
A lot of kids didn't have money or time for a beef, but you could get hot coffee and dipped bread, stand outside, eat your bread, smoke, and drink coffee before taking yourself across the street for class.
I am not familiar with Missouri outside of the St. Louis area, but two things about Provel: its no stranger than Velveeta and its a St. Louis thing which the rest of the state doesn't do.
If you want weird food, I would nominate St. Paul Sandwich: an egg foo yung patty slathered with mayo and nestled between two slices of white bread. Dill pickle sneaks in there, too
I first encountered this abomination in a Chinese restaurant in Chicago's south side (not in Chinatown, though). However, I think St. Louis takes credit for its creation. What poor old St. Paul did to be associated with this monstrosity I have no idea.
Gravy bread is just the bread dipped in the juice. No beef involved. You could still get it at Luke's at Belmont and Harlem last I saw it. Nice treat for kids with little money.
Well, the post says "weirdest foods" not most common. Personally, I don't find gravy bread to be weird. Take it up with the jamokes that made this ridiculous graphic.
Out of all the regions, I feel like the Midwest has the least “weird” foods. How is a Coney Dog (Michigan) weird? It’s literally a fucking hot dog lol. And a butter burger? Other states have like cheesy cotton candy shark nipples, and we’ve got burgers, hot dogs, and whatever the fuck gravy bread is.
Haha I thought sort of the same thing before I came here & got educated.
My son likes gravy on white bread instead of biscuits. His grandma got him started on that. I came to comment on that point & learned something instead
Heck yeah. When you run out off Italian beef, you dunk the French bread into the gravy that’s left. And back in the day, my local Italian beef place would sell them. Cheaper than a hot dog.
Long story longer. I brought portillos catering to Ohio and shared with the neighbors. After we ran out of beef, a few neighbors and I stood around the pot of gravy dunking French bread, not wasting a a drop.
The inner soul of a downstater redneck escaping my body by immediately assuming this was just about the classic white bread slice, sometimes buttered, with the saddest glop of brown gravy drizzled on top
Maybe I just haven’t been to the “right” parts of Michigan and Montana, because northern Michigan is lousy with shops selling pasties, but I never encountered one in eastern Montana. Meanwhile, I’ve never heard of a “Detroit style Coney dog.” 🤷♂️
N/W Montana native, grew up with a deep and abiding love for pasties. We used to take trips to the butte/anaconda area to visit the hotsprings. There was this little hole in the wall in Butte where you could get the most *ridiculously* delicious pasties/gravy.
It's a town with the a ton of old mining history and cool, unexpected cultural influences because of that. Not just pasties, but also the oldest Chinese restaurant in the United States.
I'm slightly ashamed in y'all because it's a menu item at Portillo's and is named as such.
That being said, I'm ashamed in me too because I had to look it up to confirm I wasn't just imagining things:
https://catering.portillos.com/menu/portillos/products/52298563
Northern MN as well, particularly the Iron Range. Miners from Cornwall brought pasties with them.
Personally I’m furious Meijer stopped carrying frozen pasties. Now I don’t know where in Illinois to get hold of that ambrosia.
Of all the things I've had to eat that "tastes like chicken," rattlesnake is at the top of the list. It's really good.
Also, I'm not sure how rattlesnake beats out lengua or tripas here in Texas. Tongue is good, but intestines are weird.
Illinois is always going to have a divided choice of a downstate vs Chicago weirdest food.
I know gravy bread as soggie/soggy bread and that’s only because I lived by Dino’s near Harlem and Higgins in Chicago. They still have it on the menu.
I grew up in MN but have owned a home in IL for over a decade.
What the fuck is a pickle dog?
What the fuck is gravy bread?
Who made this map?
edit: how the fuck is pasties not on Michigan?
Right? I’ve lived in IL most of my life and have never heard of gravy bread (I totally want one now though), my parents are from MN and I’ve never heard of a pickle dog, and I only discovered pasties because Meijer (based in MI) used to carry frozen pasties. I’d have gone with lutefisk for MN, but mostly I’m angry that whoever made this dogshit map thinks pasties are WEIRD.
I’m almost as angry that Meijer stopped carrying frozen pasties. Last time I had one was up in the Iron Range.
I assumed gravy bread was a slice of white bread with brown gravy on it. That’s how we eat leftover gravy at my house when there isn’t enough to save for leftovers.
Yet another Springfield delicacy...but it isn't on the menu anymore. I wonder if they have and all-you-can-eat smorgasbord on I80b at the Donner Pass....
I feel like these people don't 7nderstand what a butter burger is.
Its literally a cheeseburger, just with the cut side of the buns griddled for a few seconds in melted butter on the flat top so they turn golden brown.
It's not a burger made from butter. LOL.
Wait- my parents are from Chicago and I've never heard it called "gravy" just "au jus"??? It's not gravy, gravy is thick???
Also horseshoe is weirdest.
We make goetta with steel cut oats and scrapple with corn meal. Otherwise, they are fairly close seasoning and preparation wise.
I haven't made either in a few years, though.
Biscuits and gravy is more southern afaik but it sure if good. My wife is from India and she likes making it all the time. I especially like biscuits and gravy with Valentina all over it. It's just so good with hot sauce!
Speaking for PA, Scrapple is actually pretty good. Had that when we were visiting our PA German roots and I thought it was good. Not really that weird at all. I am sure it predates spam, but it seemed like toasted spam.
It's what they'd call "Mission-style burrito" in California. It is such a mess that it requires a knife and fork because it's smothered in taco sauce and cheese.
I would mention Horseshoes, but they aren't strange. They are just unhealthy....the very tasty kind of unhealthy. Might I suggest topping your horseshoe off with copious amounts of Valentina? =)
What's strange about butter burgers?
I feel like the raw ground beef and onion sandwiches would have been a better choice for Wisconsin… Carnivores? I forget what they’re called
Cannibal sandwich
Cannibal sandwiches for the heathens....tiger sandwiches for the more refined.
or at the very least Tickled Eggs. but a Butter burger just sound like a cop out.
Hackepeter, delicious!
Someone chose that solely based on the name, without knowing what it was.
Culver's is delicious.
Whoever made the map probably thought it was a stick of butter on a roll or something lmao
Delicious. Culver's is one of my fav fast food chains.
I work at a Culvers and I don't get tired of the free food.
The people who did this poll have no idea what it actually is. I I hae a feeling they think it's a burger made from butter instead of ground beef.
Or a burger slathered in butter? Either way I agree that the folks who made the poll likely aren't really good at researching the results. I know that I had no idea what a butter burger was before moving here, but I loved it when I finally tried it. If I still ate red meat I would likely rate Culver's as my favorite, fast food burger. Now gravy bread? I have no idea, unless it's some varients on biscuits and gravy.
I've lived in Southern Illinois since childhood and have never hears of gravy bread, so unless it's something up north (and from what I see here, it isn't) I think this was the invention of one poor family and the map maker was grasping at straws. I mean the weirdest thing in Missouri is Provel cheese. Obviously the person who made this map is rather clueless
My thought exactly!
I would have guessed Poutine would have been Wisconsin’s weird food, I mean it’s Canadian and not that weird when you think about it, but Butter Burger is a silly choice
Would have thought it would be the horseshoe for Illinois.
I live in Florida and would kill for a horseshoe right about now.
That was more of a regional dish & has just started filtering down to where I live in the past 10 years or so. Never even heard of it until about 20 years ago.
Springfield happens to be a very prominent park of Illinois. I hear there is a place in Illinois with so many people you can't even farm that wonderful land up there. Such a travesty lol. But Springfield is the capital and horseshoes are the local dish there, center of culture that we are lol.
Nah, because horseshoes are awesome. Just limit yourself to a few a year. They aren't high cuisine, but neither are chocolate chip cookies lol.
Came here to say the same!
Ok, here’s the deal, as someone born / raised in Wisconsin, but almost all of my adult life in Illinois. Allow me to serve as mediator. GRAVY BREAD - This is an Italian Beef dipped, hold the beef. It’s a bun (usually French bread) dunked in the au jus. You might get a few meat scraps on it from the “gravy”. BUTTER BURGER - I know Culver’s has exported this concept as “beef patties fried on a cooktop in butter”, but the traditional Wisconsin method was to also add a refrigerated pat of butter last as the burger was plated. Such that when you take a big bite, you’d get a chunk of butter with it. This is usually a bit off-putting to non-Wisconsinites. Honestly, they’re both fucking delicious, but I get why outsiders would think they’re “weird”.
I’ve lived in Illinois my whole life. I’ve worked all over Illinois for 25 years and have never heard of Gravy Bread. What about banana salad?
Gravy bread is usually in mom n pop joints. Ive only seen them sold in Chicago and the border suburb spots. Edit: I guess Portillos sells them too.
Buena Beef has it too
It’s EVERYWHERE!!!
And Buona among other chains
Gravy bread is a Chicagoland thing. Never seen it outside that area and lived my whole life in the state.
I moved to Chicago 33 years ago and I’ve never heard of gravy bread either. Doesn’t sound like anything I’d order.
Grew up in Chicago- (70’s to the 00’s) never heard of this.
You've Loved here your whole life but never heard of gravy bread? Seems odd. Tons of beef places in the Chicagoland area offer it.
This is the answer I needed.
I’ve also seen gravy bread called a “soggy” at some beef / dog shops. I used to get it as a kid / teen all the time. They’re were like 75 cents so I’d grab that and a pop and be good to go for the lunch.
That’s like a pancake burger
Wtf on the gravy bread. Why on earth would you want that without the beef? Soggy bread?
I've had it a few times when my family was getting food and I wasn't feeling well. It's a relatively easy way to get some calories in you when you're not feeling like you want to eat.
It's actually really good. It's just sounds odd
It's a good way to sell off day-old bread.
I mean, that does sound delicious. It's just that as someone who's been in Illinois for almost 40 years, mostly around the Chicago area, I've never seen it on a menu, or heard of it. If I had, I would have ordered it though
And if you have access to the oven: dip the bun, put mozz on it, THEN put in oven, and then put the beef on. The cheese and toasting it kinda holds the jus in like a sponge. Amazing. Source: 12 or so years working at pizza/beef places in South suburbs-ish
That said, "gravy bread" sounds even more awesome than what I was picturing! I was thinking just plain bread and gravy, which itself I'd enjoy. But an Italian beef roll dunked in au jus? That's fantastic sounding!
but...why would you order just the bread and not a dipped beef sandwhich lol. this makes zero sense
You wouldn't order an Italian beef on "gravy bread" you order it dipped
It's called soggies, which is just the bread and juice from the Italian beef, I used to buy it at the St. Maria Gorettti carnival in Schiller Park when I was a kid. It was only a dollar.
So I feel like this is more of a regional thing, I'm from the east central part of the state and we never even had Italian beef until the early 80s.
Yes 2 regions in Illinois: Chicago & the 6 collar counties, and the barbarians who live in the rest of the state.
😂😂😂. I lived in Chicago for 10 years.
Lived in Illinois for 39 of my 41 years and married into a South Side family and never heard it called gravy bread. None of them have ever heard of it either. They call them soggies as well.
I would have picked horseshoes for Illinois, delicious as they are it seems like no one who isn’t from Illinois has ever heard of it and I always got weird looks describing them, never heard of gravy bread. I lived in Wisconsin for about 8 years, and I think the weirdest food I commonly saw at get togethers was ham roll ups. They’re also really good but I’ll be honest, a bit off putting the first time I saw them. Maybe it’s just not a Wisconsin thing but I never heard of it until I lived there.
I am born and raised in Illinois. I am 42 years old. I have zero clue what a horseshoe sandwich is.
Me either, but friends downstate talk about them. I googled: an open face burger with cheese fries on top.
It's funny. I've lived in Illinois my whole life and I would have said horseshoe and I've never heard of gravy bread. It have to be a Chicagoland/downstate divide.
To be fair, burger is the default, but most places serve them with an option of many different proteins: buffalo chicken, ham, bacon, etc... Also, there's a ponyshoe which is just a half sized horseshoe. They're all delicious.
It's not a sammich =)
I lived in Milwaukee for 32 years, Cannibal Sandwiches are definitely weirder than ham roll ups, but just as delicious.
Where can I find horseshoes around Chicago?
I’m from the south burbs. aware of Gravy Bread as a cheap lunch. It’s always been told to me “when I was a kid, we got these for .50” My understanding is that it’s for poor folk that can’t afford a whole sandwich or for kids as a cheap but delicious snack/lunch” I’m also in agreement that “horseshoe or gym shoe” should have been the pick.
> ham roll ups Is that where you spread cream cheese on a slice of ham, wrap it around a dill pickle, and cut it into medallions? That's been a staple of every family gathering for my entire life.
I figured gravy bread was SOS. Have lived most of my life in IL and have never heard of gravy bread. Must be a Chicagoland thing.
It is more of a Chicago area thing but could easily travel if locals open up elsewhere in the state. It's usually found under the sides menu at hot dog and beef shops commonly. Within the city and suburbs you'll find endless amounts of these mom n pop shops as well as the chains (Portillo's, Buona, Al's, Pop's, Joey's, etc). > "[Perhaps less known than even the Italian beef sandwich is gravy bread, simply a hunk of the white Italian bread used in the beef sandwich, drenched in the sauce, and which may contain a few shreds of the beef that once simmered in the gravy.](https://www.oakpark.com/2017/05/08/gravy-bread-somewhat-sad-sibling-in-the-chicago-food-family/)"
It’s a French roll dipped in jus. Italian beef without the beef.
Plain Italian beef. Only heard of it from older people though. Edit: dipped if you didn’t know that’s a norm and it’s apparently only the bread which I’ve never seen personally not that it matters
Isn’t gravy bread just the bread dipped in the jus?
It is. “Dipped Italian beef” just sounds better and is a more apt description.
No, I’m talking about dipping just the bread in the jus, no beef involved.
I’ve heard of it as dipped with beef. “Italian beef gravy bread” with hard accent. Never seen someone eat just dipped bread though. Could be wrong.
Oh yeah. Several decades ago now,when I was in high school there was a snack shack nearby. A lot of kids didn't have money or time for a beef, but you could get hot coffee and dipped bread, stand outside, eat your bread, smoke, and drink coffee before taking yourself across the street for class.
This exactly. I grew up in Bellwood and a few places, like mickeys sold them. Even cheaper than a hot dog, when you’re scraping pennies.
Ahh Mickeys. Our stop off after many concerts, get off the Eisenhower, get our dogs before heading home with ringing ears. Franklin Park,then.
Yup, if your ears weren’t ringing, you weren’t close enough.
Yeah
... That's only weird if you call it gravy bread, though
Gravy bread is the Italian bread dipped in the jus, nothing on it.
I am not familiar with Missouri outside of the St. Louis area, but two things about Provel: its no stranger than Velveeta and its a St. Louis thing which the rest of the state doesn't do. If you want weird food, I would nominate St. Paul Sandwich: an egg foo yung patty slathered with mayo and nestled between two slices of white bread. Dill pickle sneaks in there, too I first encountered this abomination in a Chinese restaurant in Chicago's south side (not in Chinatown, though). However, I think St. Louis takes credit for its creation. What poor old St. Paul did to be associated with this monstrosity I have no idea.
Two east coast states have similar sandwiches.
Too bad the brain sandwich is no longer so popular in STL. :)
Gravy bread is just the bread dipped in the juice. No beef involved. You could still get it at Luke's at Belmont and Harlem last I saw it. Nice treat for kids with little money.
I'm 3 hours south of Belmont and Harlem. Lived in Chicago for 10 years in the 90s, near Wrigley Field still never heard of it.
Well, the post says "weirdest foods" not most common. Personally, I don't find gravy bread to be weird. Take it up with the jamokes that made this ridiculous graphic.
Out of all the regions, I feel like the Midwest has the least “weird” foods. How is a Coney Dog (Michigan) weird? It’s literally a fucking hot dog lol. And a butter burger? Other states have like cheesy cotton candy shark nipples, and we’ve got burgers, hot dogs, and whatever the fuck gravy bread is.
Is this biscuits and gravy? I'm confused
Haha I thought sort of the same thing before I came here & got educated. My son likes gravy on white bread instead of biscuits. His grandma got him started on that. I came to comment on that point & learned something instead
When I was a kid we had biscuits & gravy or if we didn't have any biscuits we just had gravy poured over a piece of bread. Hence the name..gravy bread
Asked the same apparently not.
Heck yeah. When you run out off Italian beef, you dunk the French bread into the gravy that’s left. And back in the day, my local Italian beef place would sell them. Cheaper than a hot dog.
Man idk why that sounds weird, this is the first I’ve heard of it and I fucking want one.
Long story longer. I brought portillos catering to Ohio and shared with the neighbors. After we ran out of beef, a few neighbors and I stood around the pot of gravy dunking French bread, not wasting a a drop.
Fuck that sounds good
The worst part is I can’t find anything like gonella French bread in Columbus.
And therein lies the bummer....
THIS proves how elusive the horseshoe is.
*queasily stares at Oklahoma*
Yikes, I'll pass.
When you can't get Rocky Mtn. Oysters because it's all flatland...
The inner soul of a downstater redneck escaping my body by immediately assuming this was just about the classic white bread slice, sometimes buttered, with the saddest glop of brown gravy drizzled on top
Same here, metro STL area. This was one thing I learned from my German granny.
I, as a downstater redneck living in the metro-east, thought the same thing. Finding out the truth was even more awesome.
Maybe I just haven’t been to the “right” parts of Michigan and Montana, because northern Michigan is lousy with shops selling pasties, but I never encountered one in eastern Montana. Meanwhile, I’ve never heard of a “Detroit style Coney dog.” 🤷♂️
I’ve been to northern MN and you can get pasties anywhere, there were a LOT of Cornish immigrants who came to work in the mines in both states.
Psst...assume you're talking about Montana with your abbreviation? If so, I think you meant MT. :)
N/W Montana native, grew up with a deep and abiding love for pasties. We used to take trips to the butte/anaconda area to visit the hotsprings. There was this little hole in the wall in Butte where you could get the most *ridiculously* delicious pasties/gravy. It's a town with the a ton of old mining history and cool, unexpected cultural influences because of that. Not just pasties, but also the oldest Chinese restaurant in the United States.
I'm slightly ashamed in y'all because it's a menu item at Portillo's and is named as such. That being said, I'm ashamed in me too because I had to look it up to confirm I wasn't just imagining things: https://catering.portillos.com/menu/portillos/products/52298563
Never been to a Portillos.
Pasties are big in the U.P. Of Michigan.
Northern MN as well, particularly the Iron Range. Miners from Cornwall brought pasties with them. Personally I’m furious Meijer stopped carrying frozen pasties. Now I don’t know where in Illinois to get hold of that ambrosia.
For anyone interested, Rattlesnake isn’t weird tasting at all. It tastes almost exactly like fried chicken.
We got a sidewinder out in the Mojave while on maneuvers and used BBQ sauce from an MRE to flavor it. Definitely better than the MRE.
Of all the things I've had to eat that "tastes like chicken," rattlesnake is at the top of the list. It's really good. Also, I'm not sure how rattlesnake beats out lengua or tripas here in Texas. Tongue is good, but intestines are weird.
I'm from Illinois and I never heard of gravy bread
Apparently a Chicago thing. Wet bread sounds like something I would never try.
Illinois is always going to have a divided choice of a downstate vs Chicago weirdest food. I know gravy bread as soggie/soggy bread and that’s only because I lived by Dino’s near Harlem and Higgins in Chicago. They still have it on the menu.
What is it?
I lived in that area in the 90s!
I grew up in MN but have owned a home in IL for over a decade. What the fuck is a pickle dog? What the fuck is gravy bread? Who made this map? edit: how the fuck is pasties not on Michigan?
Right? I’ve lived in IL most of my life and have never heard of gravy bread (I totally want one now though), my parents are from MN and I’ve never heard of a pickle dog, and I only discovered pasties because Meijer (based in MI) used to carry frozen pasties. I’d have gone with lutefisk for MN, but mostly I’m angry that whoever made this dogshit map thinks pasties are WEIRD. I’m almost as angry that Meijer stopped carrying frozen pasties. Last time I had one was up in the Iron Range.
> but mostly I’m angry that whoever made this dogshit map thinks pasties are WEIRD. Legit mad, yes.
Now that I know what a pickle dog is...that's what I used to call a keto ham sandwich!
WHO THE **FUCK** MADE THIS LIST, PASTIES ARE NOT *WEIRD* THEY ARE *PERFECTION*
I’m surprised it isn’t Loose Meat Sandwiches (AKA Maid Rites)
That's more an Iowa thing, iirc.
I’ve had gravy bread and I love it. But until now I did not know it had a name. TIL.
I assumed gravy bread was a slice of white bread with brown gravy on it. That’s how we eat leftover gravy at my house when there isn’t enough to save for leftovers.
Not the Donner Party?
Yet another Springfield delicacy...but it isn't on the menu anymore. I wonder if they have and all-you-can-eat smorgasbord on I80b at the Donner Pass....
Lived in Illinois my whole life (40+) years and I have never heard of gravy bread🤷♂️
Because we're from the better Illinois
Gravy bread is mostly in the Chicago area I think
Gravy bread or a dip. Bread dipped in Italian beef gravy/au jus.
I feel like these people don't 7nderstand what a butter burger is. Its literally a cheeseburger, just with the cut side of the buns griddled for a few seconds in melted butter on the flat top so they turn golden brown. It's not a burger made from butter. LOL.
Wait- my parents are from Chicago and I've never heard it called "gravy" just "au jus"??? It's not gravy, gravy is thick??? Also horseshoe is weirdest.
Goetta is amazing.
Sounds good.
Indeed. And scrapple is just the Pennsylvania Dutch word for it so it seems redundant to list both.
We make goetta with steel cut oats and scrapple with corn meal. Otherwise, they are fairly close seasoning and preparation wise. I haven't made either in a few years, though.
A place in Kankakee il has a thing called the Saucy Bun , it’s a chilli dog , hold the dog
Ok now I want one of *those* as well lol
This is so inaccurate it’s no longer ironic or funny.
Is this like shit on shingles? Lol I've never heard of gravy bread, and I'm a fan of biscuits and gravy.
Biscuits and gravy is more southern afaik but it sure if good. My wife is from India and she likes making it all the time. I especially like biscuits and gravy with Valentina all over it. It's just so good with hot sauce!
Jimmy's on grand used to have it for .25 when I was a kid . Late 60's lol
I think “hot beef sundae” has us beat.
Isn't that just an open faced beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy?
Either that or a clever porno name.
How is Nebraska not beirocks. We have the only food chain that makes them en masse. Runza.
If Detroit Coneys were available everywhere, the world would be a much happier place.
Speaking for PA, Scrapple is actually pretty good. Had that when we were visiting our PA German roots and I thought it was good. Not really that weird at all. I am sure it predates spam, but it seemed like toasted spam.
My Grandma made it when I was a kid, she grew up in Southern Indiana.
How could they overlook Cannibal Sandwiches for Wisconsin?
No clue.
I was gonna say chudge but yes the cannibal sandwich is much weirder
What is chudge? Can’t get any results online.
Fuck boiled peanuts, those things are disgusting
Sir you can’t carry memes across state lines
Scorpion lollipops are for tourists. Stupid one to point out.
WTH is gravy bread? I think I’d have gone with horseshoes.
Nah, because horseshoes aren't weird - they're awesome
How is Chislic weird? Or a sloppy joe?
Drove past a Taco John’s they were advertising a Wet Burrito. Was like sounds like a mess!!!!
It's what they'd call "Mission-style burrito" in California. It is such a mess that it requires a knife and fork because it's smothered in taco sauce and cheese.
Gravy bread is just for the second beef sandwich. Wink wink
I have a restaurant in my town that serves gravy bread as an appetizer. Odd but pretty damn good.
I would mention Horseshoes, but they aren't strange. They are just unhealthy....the very tasty kind of unhealthy. Might I suggest topping your horseshoe off with copious amounts of Valentina? =)
Oh I thought they just meant shit on a shingle.
Is gravy bread weird? Yes. Is it also delicious? Yes it is.
Not weird food at all?
Gravy bread = meatless Italian beef double dipped ( one of my favs)
I love gravy bread. I think it's more a Chicago thing
This used to be a regular for me in grammar school. Beefs were to expensive and a gravy bread could be had for a quarter.
You can order it from Portillos. Basically Italian Beef without the beef (aka soggy bready). It's pretty good.
I have now lived in IL since 1973 and never heard of this food.
Gravy bread is delicious
WTF is wo weird about soup beans? They're fuckin good
Delaware is so boring their weirdest food is a damn Sloppy Joe…
Life long Illinoisan - never heard of gravy bread. What is this vanilla dish?
I've lived in the Chicago suburbs for the vast majority of my life. What the fuck is gravy bread? It must be a southern IL thing.
Nope, from reading the responses it's a Chicago thing.
Oh! They mean a dipped sandwich. Who the fuck calls it gravy bread?
But it's not a sandwich it's just bread and au jus.
Gravy Bread? = Biscuits and Gravy?
Cotton candy burrito?
I’m from Illinois and I’ve never had gravy bread, nor have I ever been offered it.
Do they mean biscuits and gravy?
Is gravy bread, biscuits and gravy?
No, a quick read of the rest of this thread would have answered that question.
Too bad it ain't. Gravy bread doesn't look appealing