If you’re ever down in Kentucky—and really, why would you be?—you’ll hear prideful stories about a mythical dish that is as popular as their bourbon and baseball bats, the Hot Brown.
Not to be confused with Oklahoma’s own delicious dish Sweet Brown—as I was consistently asking when inquiring about the meal to various townies that weekend—this Dixie-fied delicacy seems like it should be a bodacious backwoods Okie treat, but after sampling it, thank the Lord it ain’t.