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West Virginia makes the top 10 … with a biscuit

CHRIS DORST | Gazette-Mail Where the magic happens ...

Andy Staples is a college football expert for SI.com. He’s a college town food expert for the same place. You probably would be, too, if your job consisted of criss-crossing the nation to dozens of college football sites and your palate had a distaste for chain restaurants.

So Staples recently released his top 25 favorite college town meals, and a West By God Virginia staple made the top 10. The Tudor’s biscuit was there at No. 10, with Staples saying “[b]efore all these hoity-toity artisanal biscuit places began opening with their $8 biscuit sandwiches, Tudor’s served giant, soft, fluffy biscuits stuffed with delicious meats and cheeses at a reasonable price. It still does.”

He endorses both the Mountaineer (country ham, hash browns, egg and cheese) and the Thundering Herd (swap out the country ham for sausage) and makes mention of Morgantown’s Huggie Bear (bacon, sausage, egg and cheese). (Sports editor’s note: I’m partial to the Duke — bacon, egg, cheese and a hash brown all on a biscuit. Great for my tummy. Bad for my cholesterol.)

The top 25 includes food in states from Texas to Utah, Michigan to Mississippi. And it includes plenty of barbecue (if you know Andy, you know that’s a given). So what say you guys, does Tudor’s rank properly in Andy’s top 25?