Best BBQ

[roadwarrior]

Ridiculous story:

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/america-best-worst-cities-barbecue

 

Kansas City and Memphis would always be in the top five, probably tied for 1st.

 

[Choporoz]

Good to know that Tripadvisor's user review averages are authoritative.   Just because people in Seattle like their local joint, doesn't make Seattle's best any better than KC's worst.  This is the kind of article I expect in FB clickbaits

[Way2slow]

I'm partial to Carolina Style Pork BBQ.  Don't won't none of the sweet, brown sugar sauce stuff.  Lived in Texas six years, and never did get used to their sweet BBQ.  

The one I like best is the one I make.  When I retired from the AF did a big BBQ diner for all the people I worked with. There was not one of them that didn't tell me that was the best BBQ they had ever ate.  One was near retirement himself and owned a restaurant.  He tried to talk me into going into business, and he would finance it for a partnership.  He didn't realize how much work and how expensive it is to make really good BBQ.  So much so, you would have a hard time making it worth the work, you would be working for almost nothing if you was going to be competitive.   

[Tennessee Boy]

BBQ is a regional thing and you can't compare regions.  We went to a highly rated BBQ restaurant in Indiana one time.  It had been there for decades and was packed.  I figured it had to be good.  I was wrong.  I thought the ribs tasted like something you would get in frozen TV dinner.  Different taste I guess.

[bulldog1935]

sweet BBQ in Texas? - in a smoked tri-tip's eye.  

with real TX BBQ, better bring your pocket knife

[Catt]

Are y'all talking real bar-b-que & not grilled or smoked?

 

The 3 ain't the same!

[GReb]

If you could connect the dots from mobile to memphis to San Antonio and make a weird triangle, that’s my pick. Carolinas vinegar meat is not my thing. KC isnt bad but lacks the dry rub to me

[galyonj]

6 minutes ago, Catt said:

Are y'all talking real bar-b-que & not grilled or smoked?

 

The 3 ain't the same!

 

It didn't occur to me that people from out west talk funny until I met She Who Must Be Obeyed. They use "barbecue" the same way we use "Coke" here in the south, but the word carries even less meaning. Out there, they "have a barbecue" at which food is cooked on a "barbecue."

 

And not a single piece of meat's been on that grill for more'n a few minutes.

 

[J Francho]

[Mobasser]

1 hour ago, Catt said:

Are y'all talking real bar-b-que & not grilled or smoked?

 

The 3 ain't the same!

Catt, KC MO is famous for Bar B Que. We've tried a few places. They all are different. No two are the same

[roadwarrior]

Just now, Mobasser said:

Catt, KC MO is famous for Bar B Que. We've tried a few places. They all are different. No two are the same

https://www.joeskc.com/

https://gatesbbq.com/history/

https://www.jackstackbbq.com/

And the Granddaddy of them all:  https://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/

[Mobasser]

1 minute ago, roadwarrior said:

https://www.joeskc.com/

https://gatesbbq.com/history/

https://www.jackstackbbq.com/

And the Granddaddy of them all:  https://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/

What's your favourite. Have you been to LCs? I like them all pretty well.

[roadwarrior]

Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que is my favorite overall, but Gates makes my favorite sauce!

 

[CrankFate]

Let’s all pack our bags and head to Newark, New Jersey!!!

[Catt]

I like pretty much anybody's BBQ, what I don't like is y'all's sause.

 

I make my own ?

[Way2slow]

Yes, Carolina Style BBQ is vinegar based sauce, but that's where most people totally screw it up to where it's almost uneatable. They put so much vinegar in it, it feels like your mouth wants to turn inside out.  Just take a swig of vinegar with a little coloring in it and you have their sauce  Horrible stuff.   Let me just say, I make a Carolina Style BBQ, but it's been many years since I've bought any good Carolina Style BBQ.   Back in the Early 60's there was a place called Shorty's BBQ in Augusta Ga that was the last place I know of that made real BBQ with good quality, whole hogs.  He later went to just doing hams, ribs and chickens, and it wasn't but a couple of years before he closed his doors.  

Real BBQ is a whole grain fed hog cooked 12 to 16 hours over and open pit.  Not cheap hams pitched in a smoker.  It's basted regularly with a special blend of salt water, with butter and a few other special ingredients.  

The sauce is made in a way that it does not make your mouth draw up from the strong taste of vinegar.  

It's all about what you have grown up with and told what was supposed to be good food.  That's fine until you actually eat good food. 

True story, my mother was one of the worlds worst cooks.  My dad (actually stepdad but I called him my dad) was a construction worker that married my mother with 6 kids while he was still a PFC in the Marines, so there were many times food was not that plentiful.  We ate a whole lot of burnt dried beans. My mother would put them on, without pre soaking them, not check on them, they cooked the water out and burnt on the bottom of the pot.  She would just put them in another pot, put a little vinegar in them and that's what we had.   When I was 13, my mother was in a car wreck that put her in the hospital for a couple weeks so her sister came to stay with us to help out.  Since beans were about all that was there, she cooked a pot of beans.  We would not eat them.  My aunt asked what was wrong with them, they were good.  My dad told her, "they are not burnt and the kids had never had beans that were not burnt" so they didn't taste right to us. 

[Catt]

2 minutes ago, Way2slow said:

Real BBQ is a whole grain fed hog

 

I don't know about all that!

 

I like me some BBQ chicken or beef ribs!

[Way2slow]

Sorry, I should have said, real Carolina Style BBQ.  Yes, I like chicken and beef ribs also.  A Texan would laugh in your face if you told him real BBQ was a whole hog.

[Mobasser]

2 hours ago, Catt said:

I like pretty much anybody's BBQ, what I don't like is y'all's sause.

 

I make my own ?

Catt, this is true. Most of the best BBQ cooks make they're own sauce. It's they're secret

[NYWayfarer]

7 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

BBQ is a regional thing and you can't compare regions.  We went to a highly rated BBQ restaurant in Indiana one time.  It had been there for decades and was packed.  I figured it had to be good.  I was wrong.  I thought the ribs tasted like something you would get in frozen TV dinner.  Different taste I guess.

Same with pizza. Some peoples idea of a good pizza tastes like a cracker with ketchup on it. Nothing beats a Brooklyn pizzeria folding slice.

 

We have some great BBQ restaurants up here but nothing compared to what I have had in Tennessee down to Florida.

[roadwarrior]

The Memphis in May World Championship Bar-B-Que contest is going on this week.

Tomorrow is "Competition Day". I won "Nothing But" several years ago with a walleye

recipe. My team won $18,000 for 1st place ribs.

 

It's not about sauce.

 

 

 

[Catt]

1 hour ago, Way2slow said:

A Texan would laugh in your face if you told him real BBQ was a whole hog.

 

All I can say is, Cochon de Lait!

 

[Way2slow]

I use the same process, just different seasonings.  

[Deephaven]

6 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

https://www.joeskc.com/

https://gatesbbq.com/history/

https://www.jackstackbbq.com/

And the Granddaddy of them all:  https://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/

You left out LC's which makes AB look like htey serve horse fodder.

[N Florida Mike]

My problem is that most of my family is in NC , and they douse that pulled pork in that vinegar. I HATE vinegar. I love everything else cooked there tho! Made me the man i am today! Most of my   270 pounds. Not counting my wife’s ( virginia ) contribution!?

I pretty much love bbq other than that...