{"id":11597,"date":"2019-12-17T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2019-12-17T01:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:26:23","slug":"2019-the-year-in-food-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-6\/","title":{"rendered":"2019: The Year in Food (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11598\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sammyspizza.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sammyspizza.jpg 700w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sammyspizza-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Sammy&#8217;s Pizza, International Falls, Minnesota (Aug. 19); Brooklyn Pizza Co., Seymour, Indiana (Nov. 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One is from a small chain with all but two of its 15 locations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mysammys.com\/locations\/\">in Minnesota<\/a>; the other is a minor diner. The first was consumed in a hotel whose backyard abutted the Rainy River with Canada in sight, a walk away from one of the last three Kmarts in Minnesota \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kbjr6.com\/news\/top-stories\/2019\/09\/03\/international-falls-kmart-to-close-its-doors\/\">that will be closing this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latter, the hotel restaurant guide included one place that had gone out of business in 2017 and another whose ad misspelled not only the word &#8220;sandwiches&#8221; but<em>\u00a0the name of the city it was located in<\/em>. Naturally, I had to veto the second out of principle, which led me to door (or pizza box) #3 and two suppers&#8217; worth of food. I needed that cushion the next day after flopping into the hotel room at the stroke of midnight Eastern Daylight (for two hours more) Time.<\/p>\n<p>Central Time Zone (mostly Minnesota) trip: 11 new counties, 4 US route state clinches (MN US 169, MN US 71, ND US 81, MN US 59), 1 entire US route clinched (US 169)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11599\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Begin53and71.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Begin53and71.jpg 560w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Begin53and71-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The beginning of US 53\/71, International Falls.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6. Sammy&#8217;s Pizza, International Falls, Minnesota (Aug. 19); Brooklyn Pizza Co., Seymour, Indiana (Nov. 1) One is from a small chain with all but two of its 15 locations\u00a0in Minnesota; the other is a minor diner. The first was consumed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-6\/\">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-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","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=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11684,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}