On Colorado Day, We Celebrate the State’s Five Best Food Inventions

Happy Colorado Day! On August 1, we’re celebrating a state full of natural beauty as well as many man-made marvels. Everything from Jolly Rancher candies to Coors beer to some of the country’s best craft brews has spilled out of this state’s culinary creativity.

Here, in honor of the state’s 146th birthday, we’re resharing our list of five favorite Colorado food inventions:

Fool’s Gold Loaf

In the 2014 film What If, two twenty-something hipsters in Toronto start talking about a sandwich that was created in Denver almost forty years ago, when the Colorado Mine Company was the hottest restaurant in Glendale, beloved by athletes, cops…and Elvis. Nick Andurlakis, who was in the restaurant’s kitchen one night when the King came…