[Will88]

I was more a Golden Rule person when in the Birmingham area, though I did go to Ollie’s several times.

[martinidon]

Golden Rule was good too. My Dad knew the folks that started Ollies so as a kid that was what we grew up on. We would spend weekends at the little league ball fields cooking BBQ for fund raisers. Well he would cook I would play ball or run around catching frogs, putting them in cups and chase girls with them. Sort of a courting ritual back then ;)

[chesley]

Did you ever eat at “The Tired Texan”? They were pretty good. some people thought that they had the best ribs in Alabama, although I always preferred Archibald's, even over the fabled Dreamland (also pretty good, back in the day. I've been disappointed for a long time.)

When I lived in Gadsden, I went to the Golden Rule they had there for lunch, sometimes. Frankly, I thought the barbecue was better than acceptable, but not award winning by any means.

They did have one dish that I have not seen in other Golden Rule outlets, “Porky Bits”. These were the outside meat pieces that were removed before making their sandwiches. They then fried ‘em up, and put them in little bags, and sold them like potato chips.

Take a bag of these, and some sauce to soak them in (they absorbed the stuff like white bread), and you had some good eating.