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Caption contest!
Friday, Mar 8, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller * One of my favorite Statehouse people is WTTW’s ace reporter Amanda Vinicky, who did a fun piece recently about some famed Springfield eateries. Here she is with Maldaner’s Chef-Owner Michael Higgins eating a horseshoe…  Have fun, but keep it clean.
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- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:20 am:
Mmmmm, tastes like chicken.
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:22 am:
Bruce Rauner is somewhere in the back threatening the dwindling GOP legislative caucus.
- FormerParatrooper - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:24 am:
Yes, we do use real horse shoes, why do you ask?
- @misterjayem - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:24 am:
“Mmmm… This one is better than the third horseshoe was but not quite as good as the fifth one…”
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:29 am:
“Wish I also had a slurpee from Sen. Plummer’s Office…”
- Dirty Red - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:31 am:
“For just the cost of a horseshoe a day, you can feed starving reporters like Amanda.”
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:32 am:
The things they make me do during Pledge Week.
- lakeside - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:32 am:
No one digs into a story like Vinicky.
- Reality Check - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:33 am:
Soylent horseshoes are made out of …
- Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:33 am:
===Rauner is somewhere in the back===
Wrong restaurant.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:36 am:
Eat the horseshoe, take the extra fries..,
- Anon - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:36 am:
I’m here with the Kung Fu Colonel Sanders who know for cutting his fries by chopping them with just his hands.
- PublicServant - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:37 am:
Jeez RNUG, How many places are famous for their Horseshoes down there???
- DuPage - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:41 am:
Reminds me, I’m hungry. Time for lunch!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:43 am:
Up next?
Cannoli…
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:44 am:
It’s the food, not the politics, that really slows Springfield down.
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:45 am:
===Jeez RNUG, How many places are famous for their Horseshoes down there???===
Pretty much all of them. lol
- Commander Norton - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:46 am:
Journalist Amanda Vinicky remembers why she left Springfield for Chicago.
- Leatherneck - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:46 am:
“Has KFC ever attempted to recruit you for their Colonel Sanders look-alike commercials?”
Springfield-centric question: “Why didn’t you run for Ward 7 Alderman this year?” (Higgins unsuccessfully ran in 2011 and 2015).
- Leatherneck - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:48 am:
I didn’t know that Springfield has a gourmet version of KFC.
- curtis - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:48 am:
“Chew Amanda Chew”
- Blue Dog Dem - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:52 am:
Do you eat a horseshoe with a fork or ya fingers?
- Mama - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:54 am:
OMG this is good eating! Maldaner’s horse shoe is the real deal.
- Mama - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:55 am:
Blue Dog Dem, use your fork.
- Joe Bidenopolous - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 11:57 am:
===Do you eat a horseshoe with a fork or ya fingers?===
Yes
- 47th Ward - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:08 pm:
Mal dinner.
- JAH - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:10 pm:
President Cullerton eats this every night???
- Amalia - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:19 pm:
Tastes like Horseshoe.
This was a great piece from Amanda. Interesting, fun, and spirited. Guess I never thought about why they call it a horseshoe(pony shoe) and the creation site of the corndog should really put SF on the culinary map.
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:19 pm:
I wonder if Amanda appreciates posting pictures of her eating like this. I thought it was a universal rule that people hate pictures of themselves eating
- Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:33 pm:
===I wonder if===
↑↑↑ Concern troll.
https://twitter.com/AmandaVinicky/status/1104088538310733824
- John Patterson - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:33 pm:
– President Cullerton eats this every night??? –
Yes. It’s a Grand Bargain.
- jim - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:35 pm:
As Homer Simpson would say, “Horseshoes — mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”
- Montrose - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:39 pm:
“I know I am at Maldaner’s, but a horseshoe is all public television can afford.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:39 pm:
I’m looking forward to buying a horseshoe with some of my Pritzker Tax Cut. Mmmm.
- CookR - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:47 pm:
The chili is ground beef with extra fat? Is it spicy? I don’t shy away from too many foods for excess, but that sounds like something.
- Ex Pat - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:50 pm:
Focused Amanda. Focused.
- OneMan - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 12:51 pm:
There is someone from Darcy’s Pint outside who would like to speak to you..
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 1:04 pm:
Check My EKG Please! Coming soon on your Window To The World…
- pool boy - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 1:04 pm:
Why don’t you use a pocket protector like all my engineering friends?
- OneMan - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 1:15 pm:
Why yes, we use a spice miz we got from Magic Kitchen, why do you ask?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:13 pm:
“I feel so much better knowing that it’s all organic.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:15 pm:
“And I can proudly say, without fear of contradiction, that our horseshoes have resulted in more snoring during filibusters than anybody else’s.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:17 pm:
Higgins: “If our servers aren’t pumped up when they start here, they soon will be after lugging these around.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:20 pm:
Higgins: “And if a politician can’t finish their horseshoe, they can always use the leftover cheese to paste up their campaign posters.”
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:23 pm:
Come for the cheese sauce, stay for the beef suet.
- Practical Politics - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:46 pm:
“A corn dog for dessert or appetizer? It’s another Springfield original.”
Side note: There was one Chicago tavern in Beverly that had horseshoe sandwiches on its menu of pub grub. I never saw the sandwich served anywhere else outside of Springpatch.
- Strategy Geek - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
“This is harder to swallow than Rauner’s claims his budgets were balanced all those years.”
- Rural Survivor - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 3:01 pm:
The ribeye horseshoe at the Illinois state fair is still the best!
- Boone's is Back - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 3:13 pm:
Amanda- “Where was this after moderating that Gov debate….”
- 37B - Friday, Mar 8, 19 @ 4:11 pm:
It’s horse what???
Oh, “shoe.”
Nevermind.