“It’s simply the tastiest food there is,” stated Greg Urban, a native of Minnesota.
The St. Paul nightclub owner remembers going to the family’s North Woods cottage with his grandfather and enjoying the beef, mashed potato, and gravy sandwiches at Charlie’s Café in Freeport.
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A popular casual meal option in Minnesota’s pubs, sports bars, and family eateries is the hot beef commercial.
It is located directly west of Interstate 90 and extends all the way to South Dakota’s Black Hills.
In essence, a hot beef ad consists of shredded or diced beef served on slices of it.
However, things don’t get any better,” continued Urban, the proprietor of the Texas and Florida Wild Greg’s Saloons.
Amidst the impact from the Black Lives Matter riots and COVID-19 regulations, he closed his first Minneapolis store.
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There are numerous origin legends for the culinary term “hot beef commercial.”
In a 2019 hot beef commercial treatise for Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, culinary writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl wrote, “Traveling salesmen, traveling for commercial business, eat commercials.”
