Visiting Gunder, Iowa

Linda and I finished off the food portion of our road trip with a much anticipated stop in Gunder. Another small community in northeast Iowa, Gunder has three prominent features: their brilliant white church and graveyard, the DX station, and The Irish Shanti. As you can see in the sign, the Shanti is the home of the Gunderburger, twenty ounces of ground beef served up with pride. Their website says they started making the thing to put Gunder on the map; it did that and on the list of 100 Things to Eat. It was a tasty burger even if some might think it a bit excessive.

As we got in the car, another couple were heading in and asked if we were heading home. Linda and the couple chatted a bit about how we each had come to be there. The man said "If you like this, there's a tenderloin just over in St. Olaf you should try." Linda put her finger to her lips and said "Shhh... don't tell anyone, we had that for lunch." The couple both rocked back a bit, their eyebrows raised, and then we all had a good chuckle at our gastronomic folly. It was fun.