SPRINGFIELD, Ill.Field House Pizza and Pub has written a dubious new chapter in the history of this city’s signature dish. “We made something very unhealthy even unhealthier,” co-owner Tom Hart says.
That’s saying a mouthful, considering the dish he sought to outdo: the horseshoe sandwich, a platter-size, open-face Springfield original, consisting of bread, meat and a pile of French fries smothered in a thick cheese sauce.
Field House adds an extra layer of grease by stuffing the meat and fries into a tortilla, which stands in for the bread, and dunking the mass in a deep-fryer before ladling on the cheese sauce. The resulting colossus, called the “Shoe Burrito,” weighs in at 2,700 caloriesthe equivalent of five Big Macs.
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Caption: The Conner family dig in at Charlie Parker’s in Springfield, Ill. Don Conner, right, eats a Buffalo chicken horseshoe and his father-in-law, William Dunn, left, eats a pork-tenderloin horseshoe.
Credit: Joe Barrett, The Wall Street Journal