See how this all started here:
http://bkatranch.blogspot.com/2012/01/bc-and-kathies-excellent-adventure-to.html
Sandwich #4, week #4. We are staying on track to complete all 46 sandwiches in under a year! Sorry I am a little tardy with this post. It has been a crazy - but SUPER - week!
Kathie and I were downtown taking in all of the Super Bowl activities so we needed something close to the action. A quick peek at the Super 46 website showed Hoaglin To Go on Massachusetts Avenue. Perfect! We wanted to run by Mass Ave anyway to visit a friend that owns a pet food business and the “Take you back PB & J” was top on my list because of the picture in the Visit Indiana travel guide. Doesn’t that look amazing?
I have always thought that you started a restaurant with incredible food, people love the food, and then because of the huge success of your restaurant, you start a catering company. I have learned, thanks to my adventure with the list, that is not the case. It appears that you start a catering business, people love the food, and then because of the huge success of your catering business, you start a restaurant. This is certainly the case for Hoaglin To Go. Rob Hoaglin, a Cathedral High graduate, is a great example of a true entrepreneur. Rob started his business working from the trunk of his car. He knew he needed to expand but couldn’t afford to take the leap so he contacted his old school and offered to handle all of the food service needs for Cathedral in exchange to use the kitchen for his business. An agreement was formed and he was off. That was in 1994. Now Rob is one of Indiana’s top caterers and his business does millions in revenue. When I hear people say “you have to have a lot of money to start a successful business”, Rob is an example of the opposite.
I never would buy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at a restaurant. Never. Even with that awesome looking picture, I still would not have. Something about a PB & J at a restaurant just feels like I am wasting my restaurant choice. I have had probably a 1000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in my lifetime. I have had it with different jellies, different butters, and different bread. I even have PB & J on crackers. PB & J is wonderful, but for a restaurant choice? I ordered the PB & J sandwich expecting a good sandwich but nothing really special. I was wrong. This sandwich is really good. They take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and turn it up a few notches. So simple that anyone could do it, but hey, they did it first. It is a great PB & J sandwich made with a nice creamy peanut butter and fresh strawberry jam on toasted whole wheat bread but they add sliced strawberries and toasted peanuts! The combination is great and really makes the main ingredients pop! I will be re-creating this sandwich in my kitchen in the future.
Kathie had the chicken salad and enjoyed it. She is really easy to please when it comes to food, so don’t expect her to ever say a bad word.
The star of the visit was the Blondie. My goodness that was the best Blondie that I have ever had. Period. We had been seated near the desert case and they had these wonderful looking iced cookie sandwiches in the case and Kathie decided to get one. I thought the cookie looked great but wanted to get something different so that we could split it and share. I settled on the Blondie. I am so glad that I did. It was just an incredible Blondie and if we had it to do again, we would both order the Blondie. I’m not saying the cookie wasn’t good, but the Blondie was just over the top. Baked to perfection, loaded with chocolate chunks, it was incredible. Go now and get one and bring one back for me. I’ll pay you!
Visit Hoaglin To Go at 448 Massachusetts Avenue or on the web at
http://www.hoaglintogo.com/
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