Tonight, take a quick look at travel reporting on a local classic . . .
Kansas City Snoot Sandwich Sensation
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"In Kansas City, Missouri there's a neighborhood hangout called The Tenderloin Grill. Sure, they're known for their fried tenderloin sandwich, but they're famous for serving pig snoots on a bun. For generations, pig snoots were cheap food for working class people in meatpacking towns like Kansas City because it was the part of the animal that no one else wanted. When you take a look at the snoot sandwich, it's easy to understand why this might have been the case.
"Today, The Tenderloin Grill is a local institution, where the local police bring rookie cops to eat snoot sandwiches as an initiation rite. Host of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern, tucked into his snoot sandwich like rookie cop with gusto, and described it as tasting a little like pot roast with a "latexy, vaseline kicker."
You decide . . .
Most KCMO "cuisine" is based on some kind of dare.
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In the photo the pig on the left looks like it would be tasty, but that porker on the right has freaking got to go.
ReplyDeleteI remember people going down there to eat snoots for as long as I can remember. Not been there myself for couple of years now use to like and swing by and grab a tenderloin to eat when coming from downtown. Damn good tenderloins. Yes I had my first snoot the year between 2nd and 3rd grade. Grandpa loved a snoot sandwich and would go down on a weekends to have one and I so wanted me a Western Flyer and the deal was if I'd eat a snoot with him he'd get me my bike. I got the bike and have had several snoots over the years since then. Don't knock what you haven't ever had. I bet even chuck has had one of them.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day Dagwoods was another place on Southwest Blvd that served a killer tenderloin sandwich. Damn now I am hungry for a sandwich.
When people said they ate everything but the squeal, they meant it.
ReplyDeleteUh, porcine products like corn dogs, bologna, Spam, breakfast links, and such, has us snarfing on snoots along with Petunia's and Porky's parts from their south ends when they're facing north. Yum!
ReplyDeleteThe above I don't have often. When eating oinkers, make mine good quality smoked or sausaged selections. Load up that bacon, loin chops, ribs, and any Werner's grilled 'wursts. Mmmmm Mmmmm.
Disgusting. I'm seriously considering becoming a vegetarian altogether.
ReplyDeletePig snoot sandwiches were a regular item at John Agnos Grill, which I recall being just west of Paseo on about 10th Street. The story about rookie cops being taken there for an initiation ceremony was told about Agnos. Can still buy pig snoots at several local groceries.
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ReplyDeleteSnout, not snoot. Fucking ignorant hipsters.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the backbeat in this TV clip kinda sounds like nine inch nails.
ReplyDelete10:11 as it states on the menu at The Tenderloin Grill
ReplyDeletePig Snoot $3.69
STFU you ignorant nobody they have been called that way before idiots like you even knew what a hipster was.