The best inventions are often the simplest ones, and in Springfield, Illinois, you can taste an original creation that changed the sandwich game forever. The Maid-Rite didn’t just make a great ...

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 ...

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In Springfield, Illinois, the Maid-Rite has been proving the latter point for nearly a century, one steamed meat sandwich at a time. Here’s a question for you: when was the last time you ate something ...

Dayton has a fascinating history, which the Dayton Daily News has been there to chronicle since 1898. Each week, we’re going into the archives for stories both important and interesting that happened ...