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Realizing that not every customer could, should, or would want an entire horseshoe for every meal, enterprising cooks developed the ponyshoe.  The ponyshoe is simply a smaller version of the horseshoe.  On a typical pony, you get one piece of toast, one piece of meat (some places serve two with a horse) and fewer fries.  The price is usually about $1 less for a ponyshoe than for the same type of horseshoe.  At many restaurants, a ponyshoe is server on a round dinner plate and a horseshoe is server on an oval platter.

The Barrel Head horseshoe dwarfs the ponsyshoe

Anyone can eat a horseshoe, just chew and swallow.  Not everyone can finish a horseshoe, however.  They aren’t a diet food to be sure.  In order to fit in while dining in Springfield, you need to know how to eat a horseshoe.  The horseshoe is different from most sandwiches because it is eaten with a fork. 

Most people pick off a few fries by hand when the sandwich first arrives as the cheese sauce is usually really hot.  The number of hand eatable fries is largely dependent on the restaurant that you are eating at.  The heavy lifting with a horseshoe is standard fork fare.  Use the fork to pick up some fries.  Use the fork to slice the meat and bread.  Be sure to mop up any extra cheese sauce.

There are other ways to eat a horseshoe, but if you want to look like a local, stick with the routine.  Pick off some fries, fork some fries, cut the meat and bread and don’t leave any cheese behind.

Welcome to the first and only blog devoted to the world famous horseshoe sandwich!  What, you may be asking, is the world famous horseshoe sandwich?  Or maybe if it’s world famous, why don’t I already know about it?  Hopefully we can be of some assistance. 

What is it?  Aside from apple pie, the horseshoe is the finest conglomeration of food ever assembled.  We call it a sandwich, but the label doesn’t do it justice.  It’s so much more and so much less. 

At its most basic, a horseshoe sandwich consists of two pieces of white toast covered by two pieces of sliced ham covered by a heaping portion of french fries covered by cheese sauce.

What happens from there is up to the cooks imagination.  Crinkle fries or steak fries?  Texas toast or bread?  White cheese or yellow cheese?

In the coming weeks and months, we’ll provide content related to all the different variations of horseshoes.  In the interest of science, we will consume numerous horseshoes and review them on the blog.  Our location in the very heart of ‘Horseshoe Country’ – Springfield, Illinois means it won’t be hard to find them.

Again, welcome to the home of the horseshoe sandwich!

Adam