{"id":11578,"date":"2019-12-10T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2019-12-07T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T15:49:13","slug":"2019-the-year-in-food-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2019: The Year in Food (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigtexan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11582\" alt=\"bigtexan\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigtexan.jpg\" width=\"685\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigtexan.jpg 685w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bigtexan-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. 8-ounce top sirloin, Big Texan Steak Ranch, Amarillo, Texas (July 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtexan.com\/\">Big Texan Steak Ranch<\/a>\u00a0is a Route 66 landmark. It&#8217;s the home of the 72-ounce steak challenge \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtexan.com\/72-oz-steak\/\">but the fine print is<\/a>, you have to eat the rest of the meal that comes with it. Mortal men and women are allowed one hour for the meal;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/article\/20150419\/NEWS\/304199815\">Molly Schuyler pounded down five of them in two visits in an combined 35 minutes.<\/a>\u00a0I did not take the challenge. There was also a strolling singer.<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t tell them I said this, but the rolls are better by miles at Texas Roadhouse &#8230; a chain that is headquartered in Louisville. And TXRH doesn&#8217;t make me assemble my baked potato while dining in.)<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Time Zone trip OUT: 15 new counties, 2 atomic bomb pair replicas, 5 Route 66 hot spots, 1 new state capitol, 1 previously visited state capitol photographed, 1 Oklahoma State Extension cap, 2 state US route clinches (MO US 54, TX US 60), 1 construction-imposed non-clinch (OK US 60)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11630\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cadillacranch1.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cadillacranch1.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cadillacranch1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Starting about the Cadillac Ranch on the west side of Amarillo, I-40 was untraveled territory to me. Empty cans of spray paint are embedded into the ground all around.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. 8-ounce top sirloin, Big Texan Steak Ranch, Amarillo, Texas (July 17) The\u00a0Big Texan Steak Ranch\u00a0is a Route 66 landmark. It&#8217;s the home of the 72-ounce steak challenge \u2014 but the fine print is, you have to eat the rest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11653,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}