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 ...

Louise Maher opened the Greenville business on North Broadway in 1934 with her brothers Tom and Gene Maher. The mainstay of the restaurant is Maher’s own recipe for the slightly sweet, steamed ...

Visit an original sandwich shop where if it's not Maid-Rite, it's made wrong. Visit an original sandwich shop where if it's not Maid-Rite, it's made wrong.

Maid-Rite, a Quad Cities-area favorite known for its loose-meat sandwich, is celebrating 100 years in business. Maid-Rite opened its first location in Muscatine in 1926 and has grown into 25 locations ...

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, ...

So, the deal with Maid-Rite is it’s really old (85ish) and their meat is loose. And apparently the funny naming homophones are simply attributed to the original founder’s inability to spell — not that ...

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...