Of all of the sandwiches on this list, this one might be the most "American" of them all. Hot roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy slathered on top, it is, of course, the Hot Beef Sandwich. Not much is known about the origin of this dinner on white bread concoction, but what people do know is that South Dakotans love it. The most notable location to get one of these sandwich monstrosities is a roadside attraction called Wall Drug in the town of Wall, South Dakota, adjacent to Badlands National Park. It's a sprawling tourist attraction that draws almost 2 million annual visitors (incredible) and consists of a collection of cowboy-themed stores, an art gallery, and an 80-foot brontosaurus sculpture. The place literally screams tourist trap at you from the hundreds of billboards placed on I-90 from Minnesota to Montana, touting free water cups to weary travelers presumably trying to get to Mount Rushmore, or back to Chicago and civilization. The best place to get a Hot Beef? According to locals, it's Phillips Avenue Diner in Sioux Falls. Will I ever be there? Who knows! But this sandwich was pretty good, for the simple ingredients and mess that it can (potentially, if you eat like an animal) make.
A chuck roast, mine was 2.5 pounds
1 Cup beef broth
Instant mashed potatoes
Brown gravy packet
White bread
1. Season your roast with salt, pepper, garlic, and onion powders because you are cultured. Place in a crockpot with 1 cup of beef broth and cook on low for 6 hours.
2. After 6 hours let your roast rest, while waiting cook your instant mashed potatoes and instant brown gravy in separate saucepans.
3. Take the roast and put it on a slice of white bread, spoon some mashed potatoes and gravy over it. Now decision time, you can keep it open-faced or stick another slice of white bread on top and eat it like a sandwich. Its your life!
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