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3 red flags a pitmaster looks for when dining at a barbecue restaurant
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Posted on 12/29/2021 1:06:11 PM PST by mylife

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To: sauropod

Yes!

Good job Pod. I couldn’t remember the name.

We had to stay at the Artisan hotel for 2 months because our contractor hadn’t finished our house.

Thanks.

5.56mm


61 posted on 12/29/2021 3:51:52 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: mylife

We have a place nearby called Southern Smokeshack.

They mostly do catering, but they have a food truck (trailer) that they set up in different locations each week. This is something they started after the ‘rona shut everything down so people could still have just a little bit of normalcy each week.

No matter the meat, it’s always moist, with a perfect balance of spices and hickory smoke flavor. The sauce compliments the meat very well.

On the flip side, there is a place about 20 miles away (Chris’ Hwy 82 @ 14) that is straight up nasty. Their meat is dry, and bland tasting, the sauce is always burnt tasting.


62 posted on 12/29/2021 3:51:54 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

A lot of people break it up, but it was really disappointing. In fact, it was pathetic. The corn bread was overdone. The chicken was overdone and dry. The potatoes were overdone and almost flavorless. Though coleslaw was half decent. The pork was mediocre at best.

I’m eating a lot of barbecue in a lot of different places. That was one of the biggest let downs I’ve ever experienced. I looked around, and everyone’s plate look just as unappetizing as mine.


63 posted on 12/29/2021 3:53:24 PM PST by JimSp
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To: CodeJockey

I prefer Skylight Inn, but the pork is the same either place. In fact, if the Skylight Inn has extra pork, they take it up to Sam Jones.


64 posted on 12/29/2021 3:54:31 PM PST by JimSp
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To: M Kehoe

This is a pretty good thread.

I’ve been saving the names and pictures of all these places.

Never been to Dunedin. Have lots of experience w/ Destin/FWB area though.


65 posted on 12/29/2021 4:02:24 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: MplsSteve

Coopers Pit barbecue. Llano Texas.


66 posted on 12/29/2021 4:02:33 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Dacula

I totally get your neighbor’s reaction. But it doesn’t take much bbq to get that reaction. all you need are burgers on the grill. that smoke gets around the neighborhood real sweet and easy. everybody is salivating on the other side of the fense. my wag is that most bbq’s don’t taste as good as they smell. I’m sure there are exceptions.


67 posted on 12/29/2021 4:03:18 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: Dacula

I totally get your neighbor’s reaction. But it doesn’t take much bbq to get that reaction. all you need are burgers on the grill. that smoke gets around the neighborhood real sweet and easy. everybody is salivating on the other side of the fense. my wag is that most bbq’s don’t taste as good as they smell. I’m sure there are exceptions.


68 posted on 12/29/2021 4:03:26 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: mylife

There’s one barbecue joint in Memphis, that I don’t know how their food is, and I’ll never find out. They were extremely rude to me when I stepped in the door. They had a limit of four people in the restaurant, and I was the fifth. I didn’t see the fourth person until I stepped in the door. No need to yell at me harshly. Then I saw other people of the same skin color as the people behind the counter do the same thing. They were allowed to come on in. I stuck my head in the door, and I told them that I don’t willingly give my money to racist tyrants, and I walked out. Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Que


69 posted on 12/29/2021 4:03:54 PM PST by JimSp
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To: Responsibility2nd; MplsSteve

I prefer the Llano location over the Fort Worth one. I just ate at the Llano location again in June. They have a unique method for Texas. A lot of their meat is cooked over live Mesquite, rather than smoked over oak.


70 posted on 12/29/2021 4:06:43 PM PST by JimSp
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To: JimSp

I go through Me phis a lot and my wife wanted to try Neely’s bbq because she saw them on tv. I had a similar experience to yours. Service was rude and slow. Like you I was not the correct skin color. The bbq was below average at best. Never been back.


71 posted on 12/29/2021 4:29:31 PM PST by baldisbeautiful (I’m Conservative because not everyone can be on welfare. )
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To: SamAdams76

I’m not sure I wanna know how they put the fire out at the end of the day...


72 posted on 12/29/2021 4:29:56 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: dfwgator

No, sir. WELL PLAYED! 😄


73 posted on 12/29/2021 4:30:15 PM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: SharpenedEdge

If you are going to be in Tidewater Virginia:

Pierce’s Pitt BBQ, Williamsburg
Cowling’s BBQ, Waverly.

You can thank me later.


74 posted on 12/29/2021 4:37:31 PM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: dfwgator

Touché!


75 posted on 12/29/2021 4:39:25 PM PST by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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To: mylife

Buc-ee’s bbq sure smells good, but I’ve never tried it.


76 posted on 12/29/2021 4:49:52 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: M Kehoe

Is it really good? We may have to drive over there.


77 posted on 12/29/2021 4:51:47 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: baldisbeautiful

Thanks for sharing your experience.


78 posted on 12/29/2021 4:52:31 PM PST by JimSp
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To: pnz1

Huge “meh”


79 posted on 12/29/2021 4:52:51 PM PST by JimSp
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Just ordered one.

I saw a review where the reviewer mentioned having to put in vents in the lid.

Do you know anything about that?

thx, ‘Pod.


80 posted on 12/29/2021 6:13:01 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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