Believe it or not there's an open-faced ham sandwich beneath that mound of cheese and fries. This is a ponyshoe sandwich, little sibling to the better known horseshoe sandwich. There's nothing quite like a 5,000 calorie lunch on a hot July day.
The horseshoe sandwich dates to 1920s Springfield. In classic form the sandwich consists of white bread toast topped with horseshoe-shaped slices of ham. In turn the ham is under a mound of french fries and Welsh rarebit cheese sauce. The particular sandwich above is in the little cafe just south of the square in Carlinville. The diner, which is called either Dick and Judy's or Abella's, may be the most perfect example of a small-town Midwestern cafe in existence, but the cheese sauce on the ponyshoe was more melted velveeta than an actual cheese sauce.
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