{"id":13049,"date":"2021-05-25T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2021-05-24T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:51:38","slug":"casualties-along-the-tenderloin-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/casualties-along-the-tenderloin-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties along the Tenderloin Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Pork dreamed up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowapork.org\/tenderloin-trail\/\">Tenderloin Trail<\/a>, a checklist of Iowa&#8217;s establishments serving the classic breaded tenderloin sandwich, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowafarmbureau.com\/Article\/Conquer-the-tenderloin-trail\">in 2017<\/a>. The checklist needs to be completed by July 1, according to Iowa Pork&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>But not all the servers on the trail made it to the end.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TC&#8217;s Point After restaurant in De Witt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clintonherald.com\/news\/local_news\/restaurant-known-for-tenderloin-closes\/article_b5bd8b65-7129-545b-9986-38263ffcbf11.html\">didn&#8217;t make it out of 2017<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Clinton Herald<\/em>), but the tenderloins live on the mobile Chuckies Trailers, judging by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/chuckiesllc\/posts\/\">this Facebook page<\/a>. This appears to be the very trailer that came to the Iowa State Fair in 2019 with a pork strip basket that I <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/2019-the-year-in-food-5\/\">was absolutely enamored with<\/a> (as was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamGreggIA\/status\/1389276107938144260\">Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Town House Supper Club in Wellsburg is gone.<\/li>\n<li>Nick&#8217;s, which had two locations in the Des Moines metro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/business\/2018\/09\/26\/award-winning-iowa-tenderloin-restaurant-closes-temporarily-nicks-iaria-west-des-moines\/1433725002\/\">closed &#8220;temporarily&#8221; in September 2018<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Register<\/em>) and never came back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Pork dreamed up the Tenderloin Trail, a checklist of Iowa&#8217;s establishments serving the classic breaded tenderloin sandwich, in 2017. The checklist needs to be completed by July 1, according to Iowa Pork&#8217;s website. But not all the servers on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/casualties-along-the-tenderloin-trail\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13050,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}