"It was hard to love myself while eating it." -Guy Fieri, Master of the Midwest

Yeah, I went to school in Decatur, IL and very much remember my first Springfield Horseshoe. You walked down 5 steps to enter a dimly lit bar that served $3 pitchers of Budweiser, a pool table, and a jukebox with actual CDs. 5 songs for $1, and 50 cent pool. Sometimes I miss the midwest.

Springfield resident here, your review is satisfactory. You live to see another day.

In Illinois, we use dangerously high calorie count to offset our emotional decline and growing financial burdens. Life doesn't suck so much after eating an entire pizza, after all.

Springfield native here! Horseshoes are traditionally served with texas toast, burger, fries and yellow cheese sauce. The beer cheese is an inspired choice though, I’ll have to try that sometime. D’arcy’s Pint has the best shoes in town, I always get the buffalo chicken one. Also it’s very important to me that you all know that the smaller size is called a ponyshoe.

The absolute best horseshoe in Springfield can’t be bought anymore! It was at the Sportsman’s Lounge on the corner of Mason and Rutledge. The best cheese sauce in town! It was an experience especially back in the day when Heine Dahlkamp greeted you at the door. I swear that man kissed every woman on the cheek that walked in, and Gloria and Donna, they served up generous portions and kept us entertained, along with the regulars. It was awesome.

I have lived in Springfield my entire life. Horseshoes are a way of life. It's all about the cheese sauce. Master that, and you have mastered the shoe.

AYOO WHERE MY SPRINGFIELD (& SURROUNDING AREAS) HOMIES AT?! (I'm from Rochester, 10-20mins away 'pending which part of Springfield you're going to.) For all y'all who're out of town, visit D'arcy's Pint for some of the BEST horseshoes around! It was featured on America's Best Restaurants last year! ALSO, Portillo's has the best Italian beef and Italian sausage sandwhiches ever! (They're dipped in gravy!!!) And you HAVE to get a Chocolate Cake Shake! It's the same one Fluffy (Gabrielle Iglesias) mentionned in one of his specials a while ago.

Springfield born and raised 🙋🏼‍♂️ horseshoes are such a staple here that there are places that offer variations like breakfast and gyro horseshoes. There’s even an ice cream place that does a dessert “hamburger horseshoe” with chocolate ice cream as the meat and vanilla cake slices resembling fries lol

Grew up there, been spreading the horseshoe legend for 24 years in Atl.

I grew up in hillsboro Illinois and horseshoes were one of the things they served and this just unlocked a memory

"It was hard to love myself while eating it." Oh, thats why Bears fans are the way they are.

"Illinois is just Chicago" *BEHOLD*

I spent 5 years in Springfield, horseshoes are bomb.

born and raised in a small town outside of springfield and I’ve been waiting to see someone make this. my favorite horse shoe variant is buffalo chicken. very yummy but definitely a sometimes food

Yay!!! Thank you for representing us so well!!!

Carbs, meat, beer, and copious amounts of cheese is the life blood of the Midwest 😂

THANK YOU!!!! IM FROM HERE WE LOVE THESE!!!! MANY KINDS 💖💖💖💖💖

“Midwestern Senyai Grubs can’t hurt you, he’s not real” Midwestern Senyai Grubs:

Illinois legitimately has the most underrated food in the US 😂

This is a great concept for a show good idea and even better execution! Subbed

As a Springfield resident I thought they were everywhere

It's hard to love yourself when you obviously are loving something else more at that time.

I like how he makes a Midwest dish and uses modelo for the beer😂

this dish is pure america. you’ll hit the number of calories an adult needs in a day in like 4 bites, but what a glorious 4 bites they will be. also, just a heads up - avoid using metal on nonstick pans (including ceramic nonstick). it damages the coating!

YO ALL SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS 👇

Grew up in central Illinois, this brings back so many memories of my childhood

Bruhhhhhh!!! I’ve never seen your videos but as soon as I heard the premise, I was like “he gotta do a horseshoe!” 💯😂🤣

This man is gonna be big someday. Also do Charleston or Summerville SC.

Just found your channel, love your content !

Man I love horseshoe burgers. There’s a drive in movie theatre near me in central IL that serves them. Nothing like a large cherry RC and a horseshoe burger while at the drive in

Horseshoes are such a staple we have a baseball team named after them😂

Chop the bacon, add caramelized onions and ketchup, and make that sauce a pepper jack cheese sauce, you’ll never be the same I promise. Love, a Springfield resident of 25 years.

An authentic garbage plate from rochester

I grew up about an hour from Springfield Illinois, just outside of st Louis, the food around there is crazy good

As an Illinoisian I’m so happy to finally come across a video on the horseshoe!

That ain’t Texas toast brother, that’s just toast lmao

As a local agreed on most of what you said but I love myself after eating one because I have the energy to go for a slow but long jog afterwards

A girl from Springfield Illinois here and the horseshoe is amazing happy you made it

That looks great!

having been to springfield multiple times, this is part of the reason I enjoy going back.

This is MY HOME TOWN!!! We live our horseshoes!!!!🤩👏👏👏👏

Lol Springfield IL cook here and I gotta say u captured the essence of a horse shoe and awesome job making it

Darlington SC's Dairy Bar, Raceway Grill, Joe's Grill, or Takis Diner. All are longstanding, important parts of our town, and I'd love to see you take inspiration from their menus!

My chest started to feel tight just watching this. My left arm was starting to go numb watching it the second time. Didn't watch it a third time.

I'm from central Illinois. The original was served with a ham steak instead of a burger. We got these hamburger ones in our school lunches. 1000000000/10. Thanks for showing it.

Finally some one appreciating this masterpiece from my hometown

Oh Shit! You’re in Texas. I saw the H-E-B brand! Im a subscriber from SA, Tx

I freaking Love Springfield Illinois Thank You All for Your Delicious Service

We had these for school lunches, thank you Illinois public school system

This is great, from Springfield, Illinois. So good. Haha

Man this is good I feel like listening to angsty music and slicing my veins

My mom is from Illinois and would make this for my twin and I’s birthday for a few years when we were teens. Good times

I learned about the horseshoe in an 50s style dinner in southern Illinois. This thing was loaded with chilly and anything you might put on chilly. The place closed some time ago, but it got me hooked.

Bless your soul for this. Thank you.

I grew up a couple hours north of Springfield, a town called Normal, where we had plenty of places that served horseshoes. I never realized it was reguonal until I moved to Pensacola, FL about a year ago and asked for one at the bar I go to and they'e never heard of it. I miss the horseshoe, amongst other Illinois food institutions.

I have lived in southern il and in Springfield for a year and i have never heard of this but it looks delicious

It’s a version of the classic dish “shit on a shingle” absolutely lovely. Beer cheese and gravy are the best sauces for it. But most of the time deli meats are used

bro that looks so good

As a Springfield, IL native. I approve this Horseshoe. I bet that sauce is BANGIN!

I've never been to Springfield, Illinois but there was a good truck in Camp Shelby Mississippi that served up horseshoe sandwiches when they made the cheese sauce. The only one i got was a buffalo chicken one and my gosh was it amazing. I've loved them ever since

Half my family is from Springfield. The Horseshoe was the reason I broke my Keto diet. Multiple times.

Im from and live in Springfield. Horseshoes are amazing

Thank you for getting this right! The “burger scholar” said Chicago. Even some of the national chains serve a horseshoe in Springfield. It’s my hometown and you nailed it - even the hedonistic self-disgust.

My home town and a big favorite!the tots mixed in with the fries,bliss!!!❤❤❤❤

I'm from WA and I go on work trips to Springfield a couple times a year. I couldn't believe this was actually a real thing the first time I visited 😂

Ive lived in a small town near springfield my whole life and yeah..... thats pretty accurate presentation + how you feel eating it

That “I felt like it was hard to like myself while eating it” felt like an attack

OH MY GOD?!!! THIS WAS THE FIRST THING I OPEN MY YT TO??? I’m from Springfield!

Omg I know the EXACT episode of diners drive ins n dives that you saw this on! I used to eat food to that same video all the time!!

I recommend a beaver tail if you haven’t done it already! They’re really good and you can customize them to be what you want!

That looks like a hug in a meal, NGL

grew up over in paris illinois and while i dont remember any sort of staple foods i remember savoias being a pretty big thing in town (their pizza nuggets were awesome) actually knew the old owner before he died a couple years ago since my dad worked there, he was a pretty cool guy

Central IL mentioned Man I want to go home

I was born in Springfield and lived here my whole life. I didn’t realize it was just a Springfield thing until I went on vacation to South Dakota. I asked if anyone knew where to get a horseshoe because it sounded good. They had no idea what I was talking about

there's a similar thing around where i live (natively it's from louisville, but it's spread up to the cincinnati area) called the hot brown, it's texas toast with roast turkey, bacon, & a slice of tomato covered in a parmesan cream sauce, optionally with mashed potato &/or brown gravy thrown in, there's kind of a divergence where the horseshoe goes for, like, bar food & the hot brown goes for thanksgiving dinner

I felt my heart slowing down just watching that

I lived in the Springfield area all my life and didn't realize that horseshoes weren't a nationwide thing until I traveled out of the state

Toasted ravioli or gooey butter cake, Saint Louis. Both are fantastic.

First time I’ve ever seen a horseshoe mentioned anywhere online lol. Also as someone from a tiny town outside of Springfield don’t get the horseshoes, the ponyshoes are much better because they have the same flavor without the ultra-high calorie regret

Just got off a cruise, Guy’s burgers are legitimately the best I’ve ever had

Good on ya for making beer cheese instead of just regular cheese sauce. That's what really makes a horseshoe fab!

Finally a food from my town that isn’t copying other places Hate the fact that Illinois is one of the most undercooked states along with Maine and South Dakota

Horshoes are fire especially when tou go to the drive in and they got them there straight fire

We even go as far as a breakfast horseshoe at this one diner in jacksonville. Toast with sausage and ham tater tots and 2 eggs over easy and cheese sauce on top. Soo good.

That looks kinda good actually.

I was raised in a smallish highway/river town where the main diner place is called kozy korner and it has the BEST FOOD EVER. like they fry everything so amazingly and their sauces are divine. They fresh squeeze their OJ (they've got like a machine and the oranges are delivered daily and the oranges are all lining the walls and stuff and its so cool) and they make the best reubens! they have breakfast lunch and dinner food but i think its like they stop serving breakfast at 10 or something. You wanna make a dish there then you need to make the breakfast food of like hot cakes and it comes with maple syrup, whipped butter and your choice of eggs and meat. and this was like 10 dollars.

My mom is from Lincoln, Illinois and i grew up eating horseshoes(on rare occasion) while living in Florida. I was shocked whenbnone of my classmates ate them.

Damn....my grandfather has a saying "To eat is to live and to live is to eat" I still stand by that statement as a man trying to lose weight.......but damn I felt that I'm my stomach just by watching it........I'll enjoy it and then regret it in about an hour

Like a Midwest version of a Rochester trash plate

i was not expecting the closest town to my teeny hometown that kinda scared me ive honestly never been one for horseshoes, something about everything combined makes my sensory issues go haywire

Holy... I need it. I wish I could age myself up a few months so i could grab the beer for it lol.

“It was hard to love myself while eating it” No worries my friend, that’s just the sound joy & clogged arteries 🤣🤣

Best food description I've ever heard

As a Quebecois, i have to recommend Poutine. Its delicious. French fries, with cheddar cheese and gravy. heat for 1 and a half minutes, or just about when the cheese gets gooey.

Yeah, you'll feel it has got to be the understatement of the year.

All the best food in Illinois makes you feel that way. All of it. I miss Chicago food. 😢 but not the circumstances of Chicago.

I just had one yesterday. So good.

Looks amazing

Grew up in the 217. Horsehoes are about the only thing i miss about the place. A good one (i prefer Buffalo chicken for my protein) with good meat, and the authentic cheese sauce is BOMB.