Stalking the wild breaded pork tenderloin
in Iowa
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The DesLoines tenderloin blog began in September 28, 2007, and is the most extensive and serious tenderloin resource you can find (on or off the internet!). Please feel free to stay here and peruse my website below--an earlier attempt to honor the tenderloin sandwich--but you really must visit DesLoines to get your breaded pork tenderloin sandwich jones satisfied.--Allen dont't-forget-the-mustard Bukoff |
Stalking the wild breaded pork tenderloin in Iowa
 Pork Tenderloin #1. With pickles, yellow mustard, and melted American cheese. (also came with a side of Mayo). $6.99 Dinner - July 31, 2003 The Machine Shed, 7250 Northwest Blvd, Davenport, Iowa--the mother ship in the Machine Shed restaurant chain. View a Machine Shed menu. | |
 One of our sandwich testers hard at work. |
 Huge neon sign for The Machine She |
 Pork Tenderloin #2. With pickles, yellow mustard, and onions. $2.90 Lunch - August 1, 2003 Dari Barn, Highway 6 East, Grinnell, Iowa. | |
 Food menu board in the window. |
 The Dari Barn -- "More than malts" |
 Pork Tenderloin #3. With lettuce, pickles, tomato, yellow mustard, and onions. $3.19 Janice's Lunch - August 1, 2003 Maid-Rite, 712 Sixth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa. |
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 Maid-Rite is oldest franchise in US. |
 Poster on bulletin board here. |
 Pork Tenderloin #4. With pickles, yellow mustard, and onions. $4.00 Lunch - August 2, 2003. Coon Rapid Country Club club house, Highway 141, Coon Rapids, Iowa. |
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 Coon Rapids Country Club club house. |
 Our pork tenderloin patties cooking in the deep fat fryer. |
 Plaque on wall in club house: from 1967 - 1983 my dad was the high school golf coach here and a class-reunion golf tournament is still held in his honor. |
 Lunch in the club house with Janice and my mom (on left) and Mark, Jacci, and Betty Thomas. |
 Pork Tenderloin #5. With pickles, yellow mustard, and onions. $3.50 August 4, 2003 141 Cafe, Highway 141, Coon Rapids, Iowa. |
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 Pork tenderloin in the deep fat fryer. |
 Cafe 141 - the old drive-in by the golf course. |
 Pork Tenderloin #6. With pickles, yellow mustard, and onions. $5.00 Lunch - August 5, 2003. Joensy's Restaurant--Home of the biggest and best pork tenderloin in Iowa, 101 West Main, Solon, Iowa. |
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 Joensy's numerous accolades on the cover of their menu. |
 The pork tenderloin patty cooking in the deep fat fryer. |
 One of our sandwich testers wrestling with the gigantic sandwich |
 Joensy's states their claim. |
Previous sightings
 Pork Tenderloin #7. With pickles and yellow mustard (with a side of onion rings). Lunch - May 18, 2003 The Dari Mart, Corner of Colorado and Highway 30, Glidden, Iowa. |
 Pork Tenderloin #8. With pickles, onions and yellow mustard (with a side of french fries). Lunch - May 19, 2003 Darrell's Place, 4010 1st Street (a block west off Highway 71), Hamlin, Iowa. more information below |
To be continued ...
We need more pictures!
Send your own breaded pork tenderloin sightings and encounters
to tenderloin@allenbukoff.com
and we'll include them here!
| Other Tenderloin references on the internet | |||
| Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin in Iowa 2005. Winners of the Iowa Pork Producers Association's second annual contest: First Place: The Dairy Sweet, Dunlap Second Place: Lou's Diner, Woodward Honorable Mentions: Farmer's Kitchen, Atlantic Big John's, Bode Mr. Bibbs on 6th Avenue, Des Moines |
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| Breaded Pork Tenderloin invented in Indiana? The claim is made on epicurious.com that the breaded pork tenderloin originated with Nick Frienstein, street vendor and later owner of Nick's Kitchen, in Huntington, Indiana, in 1904. Another story--from Iowa folklore--is that the breaded pork tenderloin came out of the Czech/Bohemian community in and around Cedar Rapids,Iowa, and is derived from the central European breaded schnitzel. Regardless of its true origins, the biggest fans of the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich come from Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa--the breaded pork tenderloin's main habitat. | |||
| Love me, tenderloin Chicago Tribune, Oct 13, 2005 It's Iowa's version of a delicacy: the breaded pork tenderloin. Three Hawkeye State transplants tell you why it is a sandwich like no other--and where to find it here [Chicago area]. |
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| Tasty tenderloins are everywhere Des Moines Register, March 4, 2004 Nice, informative article about breaded pork tenderloins in Iowa. Provides the following list of recommended places: CJ's, Aspinwall Community Tavern, Fort Dodge Coon River Bar & Grill, Van Meter Crouse's Cafe, Indianola Dairy Sweet, Dunlap Darrell's Place, Hamlin George the Chili King, 5722 Hickman Road, Des Moines Horseshoe Lanes Grill, Adel Jewel's Food & Spirits, Troy Mills Jo's Bar and Grill, Searsboro Joensy's, Center Point McNamara Cafe, Prairieburg MC Cafe, Martinsburg Michael's Restaurant and Lounge, 4041 Urbandale Ave., Des Moines Niland's Cafe, Colo Peru Tap, Peru Pork and More, Albion Red Barn, Exira Red Rooster, Iowa Falls Shack's Lounge, Bayard Smitty's Tenderloin Shop, 1401 Army Post Road, Des Moines St. Olaf Tavern, St. Olaf S&J Roadside Bar & Grill, Floris Smitty's, Albia Suburban Restaurant, Gilbert |
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| Winners of the Iowa Pork Producers Association's first annual Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwich in Iowa contest in 2004: First Place: Darrell's Place (see our sandwich photo above), Hamlin Second Place: Rookies Bar and Grill, North Liberty Honorable Mentions: Elm's Club, Creston Perry Bowl, Perry Viking Lake Restaurant, Stanton |
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| How many places serve breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches in Iowa? No one knows (and restaurants come and go with some regularity), but an Iowa Pork Producers Association announcement says it got 266 nominations for in this year's contest for the Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwich in Iowa. Probably some multiple nominations and maybe some franchises producing the same sandwich, so our GUESS is maybe 200 different breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches can be found in Iowa at this time. We ought to get the Iowa Pork Producers Association to publish the whole list of nominees. Then we can all just drive around Iowa eating breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches! |
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