On edit: okay, probably the beef sundae?

It's a state fair thing. Scoop of mashed potatoes (like vanilla ice cream) topped with roast beef and gravy.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

16. Tater tot on a stick? Butter cows?

Reply to fishwax (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:39 PM

Dec 2018

rsdsharp

(9,161 posts)

21. About 70% of the food at the Iowa state fair is served on a stick.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #16)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 06:04 PM

Dec 2018

I've never seen a tater tot on a stick, but I'm guessing it's a take on tater tot hot dish, which is a casserole, usually made with ground beef, vegetables, and creamed soup topped with tater tots and baked.

There has been a full sized cow sculpted out of butter (sometimes more than one in the Agricultural Building since 1911. I'm assuming these are butter pats in the shape of a cow, served with rolls.

Siwsan

(26,255 posts)

2. I have a guess as to the Hot Beef Sundaes

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:19 PM

Dec 2018

Maybe what we Michiganders call a hot beef sandwich? Beef and gravy over bread slathered with mashed potatoes?

Not sure how one keeps a loaded tater tot on a stick, though.

bearsfootball516

(6,374 posts)

4. That's exactly what it is.

Reply to Siwsan (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:21 PM

Dec 2018

Not the healthiest thing, but damn tasty.

Siwsan

(26,255 posts)

8. Agree! Hot Beef, Hot Turkey, Hot Chicken sandwiches are great.

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:23 PM

Dec 2018

Some of my favorite comfort foods.

JT45242

(2,258 posts)

3. Fair food

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:20 PM

Dec 2018

Those are all foods from the state fair. My son had the beef sundae, it was good. So was the corn.

Probably all won food awards at the state fair.

calimary

(81,179 posts)

9. Welcome to DU, JT45242!

Reply to JT45242 (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:24 PM

Dec 2018

A beef sundae sounds like exactly the novelty food attraction you'd find at a county fair in areas where beef is king.

The county fairs in garlic country in California, for example, feature garlic EVERYTHING. Including ice cream!

JohnnyLib2

(11,211 posts)

13. Sauerkraut sundaes--

Reply to calimary (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:28 PM

Dec 2018

are a thing in Waynesville, Ohio.

calimary

(81,179 posts)

5. Living high on the hog? One of those she famously bragged about castrating?

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:21 PM

Dec 2018

DFW

(54,325 posts)

6. I think what the OP was asking.............

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:22 PM

Dec 2018

How and why does a Republican-sponsored event in Iowa have a Mexican corn dish prominently featured on the menu?

Don't they build walls for that sort of thing?

fishwax

(29,149 posts)

10. That's a good question, of course, but it makes the "Granted, I'm not from Iowa" seem superfluous

Reply to DFW (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:25 PM

Dec 2018

republican hypocrisy isn't exactly an iowa-specific phenomenon.

DFW

(54,325 posts)

14. Understood, but the whole Iowa agricultural theme is

Reply to fishwax (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 05:29 PM

Dec 2018

Iowa grown, Iowa style food. Anything Mexican, especially Mexican corn (even if they only meant Mexican style corn, that's not what the menu said), is off the Republican radar in a state like Iowa these days.