Originally Posted by pseudoswede
Definitely not a "St. Louis thing". It's more of an Ohio Valley thing. There were always fried-brain sandwich vendors at the local fairs where I grew up (Indiana and Kentucky).
My hometown was featured in a news article about these sandwiches during the brief Mad Cow scare earlier this year. (
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3969530/)
You don't taste the brain too much because there is so much batter on it.
Go ahead and try one!
Evansville is exactly the location I tie this subject to (my family is from an hour north on 57, so pseduoswede likely knows where I'm talking about). And nope, I haven't tried them although I've heard a lot about them through the years.
Last edited by cawhite; Feb 26, 2007 at 8:53 pm