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From: Rosalie Schack <>
Subject: [APG] "Hot Roast Beef Sandwich" = "Combination"
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:03:50 +0000
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I live in Minnesota about an hour's drive south of "The Cities", and I work a few hours a week in a restuarant to supplement my genealogy income and get me away from my computer. Until recently we served "roast beef plates", but many customers come in and call them "commercials" when they order them. I hadn't heard the term before I worked there. I believe it is a term all the farmers seem to know around here, because they are usually the ones who order them. I grew up on a farm in southeastern South Dakota, where we had hot beef sandwiches, hot turkey sandwiches, hot pork sandwiches, hot chicken sandwiches, you name it. All were bread, potatoes, and meat, covered with gravy. You could specify if you wanted them open faced, but the preferred way was with two "pieces" (not slices) of bread. We also had hot dishes (no casseroles), served more meals in the field than at the table during planting and harvest, and sloppy joes are still called taverns. Rosalie Rosalie Eben Schack, CGOwatonna, Minnesota > > >I have not seen that sandwich under any name served in the South in years.> > Loved them.> >> >>I am wondering where in Southern Minnesota you are from, Jean? And > >>whether> >>you call a hot beef/turkey sandwich (open-faced sandwich served with gravy> >>and mashed potatoes) a "commercial"?> > I grew up in South Dakota and we called an open-faced hot roast beef > sandwich with mashed potatoes - all smothered with brown gravy - a "beef > combination." (A "turkey combination" was also available.)> > I lived in North Carolina for 9 years and here in Northern Virginia for the > last 40 and this delicious (and, by today's standards, unhealthy) delicacy > never appears on any menu in those places.> > I dream of them! In fact, I can tell you the last time I had one: On a > research trip to Champaign County, Ohio, in June, 1998!> > Richard P.

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