Dave Drum wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

One of my favourite breakfast places offer an "early bird" special of eggs, taters, meat, toast (or panquakes) and drink. For my drink I get
a big (12 oz) glass of tomato juice. And they offer Tater Tots as one
of the potato selections.
https://charlieparkersdiner.com/Menu.aspx.html

That looks delicious. The rest of their menu looks delicious too.
That looks like the kind of place I'd go to a lot. We have a place
here called Pennyman's Diner (no website). It's a low-rent,
family-owned diner that is well-worn but a great place to eat. There's several places like that scattered around the Tri-Cities and if I had a car, I'd visit them occasionally.

Charlie Parker's was featured on Food Network's "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. Only non-Chicago place in Illinois to be so featured. And they
won a national competition for best bagel dish with their Breakfast
'Shoe. In one of the classiest moves I've ever seen, the owner, Mike Murphy, split the whole 25K first prize payoff among his staff.

I let my fingers outrun my eyes there. Bagels can be used for breakfast 'shoes. But the contest was for use of Thomas' English Muffins. Which
aren't, according to my Brit friends, actually "English". But the are
useful and Mickey D's sells many hundreds of thousands of them. Here's
Mike's Recipe - which doesn't mention that you can have your choice of
bacon, ham or sausage patty for the meat. And either cheese sauce or the sausage gravy - instead of the 50/50 split in nthe recipe. Same for
'taters - hash browns (per recipe), Tater Tots, Cottage Fries or even
French Fries.

I promise if you wolf down the whole thing you may not want lunch.

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Title: Charlie Parker's Diner Breakfast Horseshoe
Categories: Breads, Cheese, Pork, Potaqtoes, Sauces
Yield: 1

1 Thomas' Original English Muffin
2 lg Eggs; cooked to order
4 sl Thick-cut bacon
6 oz Cheese sauce
6 oz Sausage gravy
12 oz Shredded hash browns

Butter and grill both halves of a Thomas' Original
English Muffin to a light gold appearance.

Place both halves of the English muffin on a plate,
buttered side up.

Place 2 strips of cooked bacon on Each english muffin
half.

Ladle 6 oz of cheese sauce on one english muffin half.

Ladle 6 oz of sausage gravy on the other English
muffin half.

Cover entire plate with freshly cooked hash brown.

Recipe by: Mike Murphy, Charlie Parker's Diner,
: Springfield, Illinois

RECIPE FROM: https://www.foxnews.com

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Dave Drum wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I let my fingers outrun my eyes there. Bagels can be used for breakfast 'shoes. But the contest was for use of Thomas' English Muffins. Which aren't, according to my Brit friends, actually "English".

I did a little research and it turns out that Samuel Bath Thomas, the
man behind the brand name, was a British immigrant that developed a
version of the crumpet for American tastes. He trademarked it as the
"English muffin" to distinguish it from the sweeter, cupcake-like
American muffins.

But the are
useful and Mickey D's sells many hundreds of thousands of them.

I do indeed enjoy a McD's Sausage McMuffin. I like them at home too
with some sort of breaskfast meat and scrambled eggs for a light breakfast.

Here's
Mike's Recipe - which doesn't mention that you can have your choice of bacon, ham or sausage patty for the meat. And either cheese sauce or
the sausage gravy - instead of the 50/50 split in nthe recipe. Same for 'taters - hash browns (per recipe), Tater Tots, Cottage Fries or even French Fries.

That all sounds delicious I'n bot sure what cottage fries are though I
suspect that they may be what I call "home fries".

I promise if you wolf down the whole thing you may not want lunch.

Even for my ravenous maw, it's a lot of food!

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Title: Horseshoes
Categories: Maindish
Yield: 4 Servings

Bread
Hamburgers
French fries

MMMMM------------------------CHEESE SAUCE-----------------------------
3 tb Butter
3 tb Flour
3/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Worchestershire sauce
1/8 ts Pepper
1 1/2 c Milk
6 oz Velveeta cheese

From: Julie Sterchi <sterchi@WABASH.NET>

Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:25:15 -0700 For each horseshoe: Place 2
slices of bread on a plate, side by side. Cook two hamburger patties
and prepare a large serving of french fries, however you like to do
them. Put a hamburger patty on each slice of bread and cover with the
hot french fries. Pour Cheese Sauce* over all. Serve hot.

Cheese Sauce: Melt butter in 3 qt. saucepan (if you use smaller it
take forever for the sauce to thicken). Remove from heat. Blend in
flour and seasonings. Gradually add milk, stirring until well mixed.
Cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until thick and
smooth. Cook 5 minutes longer. Add cheese; stir until well combined.
Makes about 2 cups, whick is enough for 2-4 horseshoes.

As you can tell, this is a very hearty meal! For myself, I only use 1
slice of bread and 1 hamburger. Younger children can usually only
handle half of that, but the men can put away a whole horseshoe with
evident relish!

EAT-L Digest 10 August 96

From the EAT-L recipe list. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-

I let my fingers outrun my eyes there. Bagels can be used for breakfast 'shoes. But the contest was for use of Thomas' English Muffins. Which aren't, according to my Brit friends, actually "English".

I did a little research and it turns out that Samuel Bath Thomas, the
man behind the brand name, was a British immigrant that developed a version of the crumpet for American tastes. He trademarked it as the "English muffin" to distinguish it from the sweeter, cupcake-like
American muffins.

I knew that after having been instructed by our (former) resident pedant,
Jim Weller.

But the are
useful and Mickey D's sells many hundreds of thousands of them.

I do indeed enjoy a McD's Sausage McMuffin. I like them at home too
with some sort of breaskfast meat and scrambled eggs for a light breakfast.

Here's
Mike's Recipe - which doesn't mention that you can have your choice of bacon, ham or sausage patty for the meat. And either cheese sauce or
the sausage gravy - instead of the 50/50 split in nthe recipe. Same for 'taters - hash browns (per recipe), Tater Tots, Cottage Fries or even French Fries.

That all sounds delicious I'n bot sure what cottage fries are though I suspect that they may be what I call "home fries".

Cottage fries, in this area tend to be square cut and larger than the
cube cut hash brownsw. Ordering "home fries" here will get you sliced,
fried taters. Cottage fries are also known as American fries in some of
the local joints.

I promise if you wolf down the whole thing you may not want lunch.

Even for my ravenous maw, it's a lot of food!

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Title: Horseshoes
Categories: Maindish
Yield: 4 Servings

Bread
Hamburgers
French fries

MMMMM------------------------CHEESE SAUCE-----------------------------
3 tb Butter
3 tb Flour
3/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Worchestershire sauce
1/8 ts Pepper
1 1/2 c Milk
6 oz Velveeta cheese

From: Julie Sterchi <sterchi@WABASH.NET>

Not a very accurate recipe, Julie. The cheese sauce bites the bitter
carrot. The original called for Olde English Cheddar. Putting plastic cheeseoid like Velveeeta in your sauce might prompt a visit from the
County Health Department to see what other things have been played "fast
and loose". Bv)=

Here's my horseshoe recipe. The sauce recipe I got from the owner of
Ritz' lil Fryer who learned it workig for Wayne Combs who was working
in the kitchen of the Leland Hotel when the first horseshoe was made and served. It's a close to authenic as I can get without using Olde Englis Cheddar. BUT NEVER VELVEETA!!!!

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Title: Springfield Horseshoe Sandwich
Categories: Breads, Classic, Cheese, Meat
Yield: 4 Servings

8 sl Bread; toasted
8 oz (to 12) meat(s) *
Hot french fries
Paprika

MMMMM----------------------HORSESHOE SAUCE---------------------------
12 oz Shredded Cheddar cheese
2 tb Butter
1 ts Worcestershire sauce
1/4 ts Dry (Colman's) mustard
1/4 ts Ground red pepper
2 Egg yolks
1/2 c Stale beer

* Original meat in a Horseshoe was ham. Any meat can
be (and probably has been) used. My favourite is half-
hamburger and half crispy bacon. Seafood also works
well on this delight.

In a saucepan, melt together cheese and butter over low
heat. Stir in Worcester sauce, mustard and cayenne. Beat
the yolks and beer together and add to the sauce pan.

Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens
and begins to bubble around the edges. Makes 4 cups.

On preheated dinner plates, arrange 2 toast slices each.
Top toast with meat. Pour a generous amount of Horseshoe
Sauce over meat.

Encircle each sandwich with hot french fries. Sprinkle
paprika (or cayenne) over sauce.

Makes 4 servings.

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