tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71121792647972709552024-03-14T03:57:27.288-05:00The Great BBQ QuestIt started as a quest to visit all the 60+ BBQ places in the counties of Madison, Limestone, Morgan, and Lawrence in Northern Alabama (that is the Hunstville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area).
Then I got sent back to Germany and there was no BBQ. But eventually I got assigned to a new job which takes me on business trips in the USA occasionally. So I reopened the blog – just deleted the “North Alabama” from the title.
BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-35359770050574704192021-03-20T12:24:00.000-05:002021-03-20T12:24:11.630-05:00Wäller BBQ<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">BBQ 118 - Wäller BBQ</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Wahlrod</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">, Germany</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Well, well, whaddayaknow - Facebook can actually be useful for something
other than spreading harebrained conspiracy theories after all. I have no idea
how the algorithm found me, but a few days ago there was this message in my
feed that basically said, hey, this Friday we are serving spare ribs glazed
with BBQ sauce, taters and baked beans - come get cha some! I was
e-l-e-c-t-r-i-f-i-e-d! Some kind of semi-original BBQ practically in my
backyard? And I only learned about this only now? Holy Moses!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Turns out there is a very small outfit in the middle of the Westerwald
(think Smoky Mountains, only a third as high, but basically with the same type
of country folk living there) that mainly caters festivities, family gatherings,
weddings and the like. But during this ongoing pandemic, there haven't been any
of those for over a year now, so they turned the business into a
delivery/pick-up service for BBQ. Each Friday, they have a different specialty
- pulled pork, chicken, ribs, brisket ... the usual suspects. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Their name - Wäller BBQ - is a pun on the local dialect, in which the word
"Westerwälder", as a descriptive term of a person who lives in the
Westerwald (think "Montaineer" for someone who lives in the mountains
...), is shortened and becomes just "Wäller". Whatever.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">So today, I drove 40 Kilometers in a raging blizzard (actually, there were
some flurries ...) from my house to their little shack in the woods (actually,
it is a basement room in a somewhat unfinished looking residential building
...) and picked-up my first order there - a so called "BBQ kit" for
about 14 Euro, with loin ribs glazed with BBQ sauce, a baked potato with a
special creme, and baked beans with some bacon and onions. It all comes in
aluminum containers that you just pop in the oven and let it heat at 180
degrees Celsius for 30 minutes. Easy enough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">So what can you expect? What did I expect? Not THAT, to be sure. I am more
of a pork kind of guy, but I'll eat ribs if I have to. And those ribs I will
gladly eat again. And again. And ... you get my drift. They are
s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r! And I am not only saying this because I didn't have real
BBQ for two years now (my yearly trip to Boogies in Nürnberg, as well as my
yearly business trip to Georgia were both cancelled when that stupid virus
decided to spread all over the world ...). I am genuinely enthusiastic,
downright giddy with joy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">At first, I was a bit skeptical - usually, when reheating stuff, the meat
gets all dry and the taste is somewhat lacking. In this case, however, so my
theory goes, it is that because the meat had time to absorb the sauce even
more, it was actually a good thing that it was prepared a day or so ago and
then heated up again. The slab of ribs came wrapped not only in aluminum foil,
but inside there was a sheet of parchment paper that kept the moisture intact.
Those guys are geniuses! So I did exactly as the instructions said, which was
very simple indeed, and out came ... drumroll ... more drumroll ... a perfect
slab of BBQ ribs. <br />
Really. Perfect. The taste was exquisite - very smoky, with the sauce not
overwhelming the meat, yet fruity and with just a hint of spice. No idea
whether they are making their own sauce or whether they are using something
commercial - but good choice, either way! <br />
The meat was so tender, that it was impossible to carry it over from the
aluminum to a tray without it just falling off the bones - literally. It had
the perfect texture, with just a bit of fat to keep it juicy and trap the
flavor, but not too much of it, so to avoid the dreaded gristle driven gag
reflex.<br />
Most delicious.<br />
The kit also had a really big potato, which came in a tray together with the
beans, which was popped in the oven as well. The tater was also very tasty, and
it came with a seemingly self made kind of sour creme, too, that had some
herbs, onions and stuff like that in it. The beans were a bit disappointing,
though, but that is usually the case with them. Not only was it only maybe two
spoonfuls of beans, but the taste was somewhat plain and nothing special. But
it was acceptable as a side and didn't hurt the overall experience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">To sum it up, this was worth every cent. The portion was generous, the meat
was top quality, the taste was utterly delicious and the overall experience
very strongly reminded me of the trips back in Alabama, which I made every
second Friday to some obscure BBQ place somewhere in the boondocks. And the
best thing - come this May, the guys from Wäller BBQ will have a food truck
that will serve BBQ all week long, not only on Fridays. I am so there when that
starts ...</span></p>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">BBQ 117 – Boogie’s
BBQ </span></b><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><br />
<b>Nürnberg, Germany</b></span></h3></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Boogie’s BBQ in
Nürnberg is the only show in town. Not only in Nürnberg, but it literally is the
only real show in the whole country. When I moved back from Alabama, I scoured
the internet to find some, no, rather any, BBQ joints in my vicinity. The closest
one I could detect is this one, which is about 200 miles away – and that makes
a plate of pulled pork now and then a somewhat time consuming and expensive
affair. I only have time to go there once or twice a year. So, I am living in
BBQ diaspora now. Boohoo, cry me a river.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Although, the real
problem here is not so much the distance that makes satisfying my instant cravings
so damn near impossible, at least on a regular basis. No, the real problem is
that Boogie’s BBQ ranks among the best I ever had – right there with my
favorite joints in Alabama, Tennessee and Florida. Those guys in Nürnberg know
how to smoke a hog. No wonder, the founder and owner of this place comes from
Memphis and he brought all the knowledge with him to Germany. The pulled pork
is tender, juicy and has an exquisite smoke flavor. The burnt ends are
marvelous as well, and the brisket is just heavenly. They serve the meat with a
quite solid bun of bread, not the American style soft variety. And that is a
good thing, because with the solid bun you can put more sauce on it, without
having to deal with a disintegrating, sloppy mess after five seconds. And sauce
you will put on – they have four flavors, one hot, one fruity, one smoky,
and one vinegar based. I always mix the hot one with the fruity one, but the
other two are also very good. Of course, you don’t need to eat the bun at all
and just devour the meat. But quite frankly, I prefer to soak the bun with the
sauces, put the meat on it and eat like a pig, including the stains on my shirt
and in my beard. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They serve the usual
fixins as sides, and the potato salad is just great, and all other sides are
good to very good. Meals are not really cheap compared to some BBQ restaurants
in the States, because it is a novelty restaurant here in Germany, but I think
the items are quite fairly priced for the quality and quantity you get. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Two more bonus
points for this place are the very friendly and cheerful staff, and the basic
layout of the restaurant. It has all kinds of US memorabilia on the walls, the
tables have red and white checkered cloths, the background music is a mix of
classic soul and blues songs, and you can even purchase T-shirts with their
logo on them. If that place was suddenly beamed away to the BBQ in the southern
US, it would fit right in. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, for me it always
is kind of a pilgrimage when I go to Boogie’s BBQ. I just hope and pray that it
keeps on serving us poor sinners for a long time to come. </span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com1Nimrodstraße 10, 90441 Nürnberg, Germany49.422992099999988 11.0679129000000123.900957599999987 -30.240681099999989 74.945026599999991 52.37650690000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-13539762385799180702019-03-14T12:25:00.001-05:002021-03-18T11:25:47.869-05:00Dave Poe's BBQ<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>BBQ 116 – Dave Poe’s BBQ </b></h3><h3>
<b>Marietta, Georgia, USA</b></h3></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At lunch time, the line
of customers stretches the whole length of the entrance way, which is a good 30
feet long. It is always a good sign, if the locals seem to like a place. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fortunately, I was
there right at when they opened the place. before that tidal wave hit.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The restaurant is
located in one of those typical strip malls at a busy street that you can find
in every American city. Right next to it is a Waffle House, which may serve as
a beacon to Dave Poe’s BBQ, because you have to look kind of hard to find it
driving by. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is not even a
small place, with maybe twenty tables and booths for four customers each, but
there are no flashy signs, no advertisements, and the like to alert you that
you are about to pass BBQ heaven. There is only the name of the place in big
letters at the front, and it also says “Wood Pit Barbecue” near the top of the
building.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And the sign does
not lie. To jump ahead to the main reason to go there, the pulled pork I had definitely
came out of the wood pit. It had a marvelous smoky flavor, it was tender and
even came with some very crunchy bark. Hands down, one of the best pork I’ve
ever had. Needless to say, that it was also very tender and juicy. At first, I
thought it to be a shame to pour sauce over it – until I took a taste of it. Heaven.
Well rounded, thick and red, clearly vinegar based but also tangy and a little
sweet. Perfection in a refillable plastic bottle. The potato salad was superb,
too. Only the cole slaw was a bit too watery for my taste – some more salt and
pepper and maybe even some more vinegar would make it more to my liking. The pulled
pork plate came with two slices of pickle and a Texas toast, which I drenched
in the heavenly sauce after everything else was gone and basically used as
dessert to that really splendid meal. For all that, plus a cup of unsweet tea,
I paid about fourteen bucks, which falls in line with the price level in the
greater Atlanta area, I guess. It was worth every penny, though.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As for the
atmosphere there – very clean, very bright and very straight forward. I wouldn’t
call the interior “modern”, and it certainly is not the coziest place you can
imagine, but I liked the college sports decorations, including the long line of
trophies at one wall, the old license plates on another wall, and the wooden floor
and walls overall. A special shout out goes to the Bama sign (RollTide!) next
to the UGA sign at the counter! It surprised me a little bit to find those two
arch rivals next to each other, because clearly this neck of the woods is UGA
country. I failed to ask Mr. Poe, who personally took my order, for the significance
of the two signs. Well, I was hungry at the time and had to catch a flight
later that day. But whenever I return, this will most certainly on my bucket
list of things to do. </span></div>
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<b>BBQ 115 – Williamson Brothers Bar-B-Q </b></h3><h3>
<b>Marietta, Georgia, USA</b></h3></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christmas Lights. It
is March, and there are Christmas lights all over the place. Not those garish red
and green ones, but the slightly less annoying white LED chains. Outside at the
building, and inside surrounding the booths and the tables. I decided to think
of it as unique and quirky – but seriously folks, I know you are from Bama, where
this would qualify as “normal”, but now you live in a somewhat more sophisticated
place near the big, big city of Atlanta, so is this really necessary?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The rest of this
restaurant looks like a pretty standard family eatery. They got booths and tables,
it is very clean and sparsely decorated, the interior is made of wood and it
really looks and feels like a very charming and cozy place. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There is also an
open pit in the middle of the restaurant, where you can watch how the meat is smoked.
This also has the great effect, that you smell it all over the place. Very nice
atmosphere there, and also a very friendly staff. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That said, lets get
to the food. As usual, I had the pork plate, which came with a Texas toast and
two sides. In must say, for all the show with the open pit and all, the meat
was somewhat disappointing. Yes, it was tender and juicy, but it lacked any
wood smoke flavor entirely. It was bland. But it served well as a basis for the
superb sauce. A thick red mélange with a little kick to it, the sauce is
undoubtedly the star of this place. The sides were also outstanding – both the cole
slaw and the potato salad were savory and with the right amount of tartness. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With an unsweet tea
I paid almost sixteen Bucks, which is a bit steep in my book for the quality
and quantity that was served. Big city prices, I guess.</span><br />
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com31425 Roswell Rd, Marietta, GA 30062, USA33.9511331 -84.5108420000000258.4290986 -125.81943600000002 59.4731676 -43.202248000000026tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-9602786566196429762019-03-10T11:05:00.000-05:002019-03-17T12:00:45.359-05:00... and yet, the Quest continues ...It's been five years now that I left Alabama and settled back into Germany.<br />
Five long years almost without BBQ. We actually have one place here in Germany that does BBQ right - alas, it is in Nuremberg, which is a four hour drive from where I live now.<br />
I've been there a couple of times, but didn't think it to be worthwhile wrinting about it. After all, it is not the Great Northern Alabama BBQ Quest anymore, it is merely a side show.<br />
But then I was assigned to a new job last year, which will bring me back to the USA occasionally on business trips.So I thought, what the heck, reopen that blog and record the experiences made in those different locations.<br />
It will not be a regularly maintained blog anymore, because of the sparse opportunities I get to sample BBQ these days. But once in a while, there will be new content. So check back on a yearly basis ... :)BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-59733347366237606992014-06-30T22:09:00.000-05:002014-06-30T22:09:00.649-05:00All good things ...... must come to an end.<br />
When I started this Quest three years ago, my goal was to visit about 20 new BBQ places in the counties of Limestone, Morgan, Lawrence and Madison each year. Given that there are about 70 BBQ restaurants in those counties at any given time (some will close, others will open ...), it would take about three and a half years at that rate to visit them all.<br />
Well, I did not quite make it to the bottom of the list - time ran out when I was sent back to Germany in June 2014, and the count was 67. So there are a few that got away - around half a dozen, I'd say, that I still have on the list. Whereas, for most of those I do not even know if they still exist - I got their addresses off a Google-search, and they may have faltered since. That happened to me occasionally, when I showed up and only found closed doors instead of BBQ.<br />
I also visited over 40 BBQ places out of the Quest area - Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and even New Mexico. There will be one additional in this category - I found a BBQ place in Germany, the only one in the whole of Europe as far as I can tell. They do Memphis style BBQ, and they take it quite seriously. That will then be the final entry in this blog.<br />
The Quest was a lot of fun, I ate a lot of very good, much to much of adequate, and some few bad BBQ. I met interesting people and actually was only approached twice in more than a hundred times by staff members about the photography part of it - and that not in a threatening kind of way, but out of sheer curiosity.<br />
So, the last question at a point like this is always "Would you do it again?". The answer is a very certain "Yes, in a heartbeat". Actually, I will miss this in Germany - I will need to find another food item to follow there. :)<br />
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<b>Quest Log No 67 – Southern Style Bar-B-Q</b><br />
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This was on my list for forever, but somehow I never got to
go there – had I known how good their BBQ is, I hadn’t waited so long. Maybe it
was my dislike of drive-through BBQ places that kept me away – I just hate to
juggle a BBQ tray on my knees and spill sweet tea all over the seats. Well,
Southern Style Bar-B-Q has some rough wooden benches to sit in front of a window
for walk-up orders. But seriously, me sitting on a cool Alabama summer day in
100-degree weather outside, battling flies, heat, and the sun, I don’t think
so. So I bit the bullet and ate my pork plate in the car – since it was a
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The flavor was almost perfect, with a very pronounced but not overwhelming
smoke aroma. There are huge piles of wood behind the building, so that is
clearly where the flavor comes from. It is supported by a no frills basic
vinegar-pepper sauce. As sides I had potato salad, which was a bit on the bland
side, and baked beans, which were very reminiscent of the stuff you get out of
supermarket cans. Nothing special here, but the meat was righteous BBQ pork if
ever there was such a thing. All in all a typical southern BBQ place – like the
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com01505 Moulton Street West, Decatur, AL 35601, USA34.60367 -87.0074369999999829.0816355 -128.31603099999998 60.1257045 -45.698842999999982tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-51174726230373577652014-06-19T22:14:00.000-05:002014-06-25T23:16:17.495-05:00Moe's Original Bar B Que<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Quest Log No 66 – Moe’s Original Bar B Que </b><br />
<b>Decatur, Morgan County</b></div>
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We already have two Moe’s in Huntsville, and now they also
have one in Decatur. And in a very posh location, too – directly adjacent to
the wonderful Princess Theatre in the revived downtown area. The restaurant is
a place with a very hip atmosphere, with high tables with bar stools, a big
cut-out window in the front, a porch with tables, flat screen TVs all over the
place and so on. Since the new-ness has not worn off yet, the good people of
Decatur are coming out in droves – I arrived there a little after 11 AM, and
half an hour later people were desperately looking for a place to sit. By then,
I still waited for my hushpuppies, which I was told “were being taken care of”.
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not wood-smoked, but kind of slow-cooked. The BBQ sauce they use is kind of
funky tasting, a bit sour and not really sweet - it is really hard to describe,
but certainly not how I like it. Also, it is kind of pricey there – well, I
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com1202 Moulton Street East, Decatur, AL 35601, USA34.6040294 -86.98485769.0819949000000015 -128.2934516 60.126063900000005 -45.6762636tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-32831911427387695262014-06-14T18:00:00.000-05:002014-06-16T00:57:31.357-05:00Pig-N-Out BBQ<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Quest Log No 65 – Pig-N-Out BBQ</b><br />
<b>Huntsville</b><b>, Madison County</b><br />
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Well, well, a BBQ in a gas station.
I have seen stranger things, but it is certainly not the usual setting for such
place. I also noticed that they have “Korean BBQ” on the menu, which is kind of
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impeccably clean, and the little corner where the tables and booths are
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The BBQ though, is more like you
would expect it from a place like this. The meat of the pork plate I ordered
was lean but somewhat chewy, with no particular smoke aroma. It came neither
chopped nor pulled, but it looked like it had been put through a blender. There
are three sauces, a white one that I did not touch, a basic vinegar-pepper
sauce without much pepper in it, and a thick red vinegar-tomato-pepper sauce –
and that had some real nice kick to it, and was very flavorful. I scooped the
sauce up with the roll that came with the pork plate at the end. Very
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The portions were not that big, and
actually I was still kind of hungry when I was finished. But for not even nine
bucks, including a big 32 oz drink, that is an acceptable deal. But just to
fill your tank with some food that is better than a burger from one of them
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com01979 Winchester Road Northeast, Huntsville, AL 35811, USA34.814819 -86.5009499999999899.2927845 -127.80954399999999 60.336853500000004 -45.19235599999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-417891884691133982014-06-03T18:30:00.000-05:002014-06-06T01:34:09.158-05:00Stroud's Barbeque<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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BBQ No 46 – Stroud’s Barbeque</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Franklin</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Tennessee</b><br />
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On my way back from Nashville,
where I watched some Triple-A Baseball, hunger overcame me and I asked my
trusty GPS for a BBQ place nearby. That led me to Franklin, to Stroud’s Barbeque. Turns out
that this is actually a small local chain with three restaurants in Middle
Tennessee. They not only have the usual BBQ stuff on their menu, but also
barbeque nachos and barbeque burritos. I resisted the urge to try one of those
fairly exotic meals, and ordered a simple pork plate with potato salad and
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To say it right upfront, it was nothing special. The pork
was not very tender, but actually a bit chewy. It was lean and the flavor was
okay, and together with the vinegar and pepper sauce it was not bad. They also
have a standard thick red sweet’n’sour sauce, which also was nothing to write
home about. The potato salad reminded me very clearly of the standard
supermarket stuff, as did the baked beans. The cornbread muffin that came with
the plate was also very standard, although a bit too dry for my taste. But for
not even seven bucks, excluding a drink (that was on the house, thank you very
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The atmosphere of the place is also very middle of the road.
There are no booths, only some tables along the wall and the row of windows on
the other side. The decoration consists of some pictures with landscapes on
them. But, and this is clearly the most interesting feature there, the counter
is something else – it is the front end of a 1950s Chevy truck. Very nice
touch, although I think it is utterly lonely there and in dire need of some
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<b>Quest Log No 65 – Melvin’s Place of BBQ</b><br />
<b>Huntsville</b><b>, Madison County</b><br />
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No sign. No name. No indication
that this place in a fairly run down inner-city subdivision of Huntsville next to a cemetery, is a BBQ
restaurant, than the smoke that is coming from a mobile barrel smoker at the
corner of the premises. You park either in one of the two parking spots on a
gravel patch beside the house, or on the street. In the courtyard of the
L-shaped building are some camping-canopies with well worn out leather chairs.
A few orange traffic cones adorn the pavement. The entrance to the dining room
is a simple red door. The dining room is surprisingly big, and not surprisingly
dark. There is one camping table with six camping chairs, half a dozen of those
well worn leather chairs along a three foot high wall, and a counter with an
old office chair behind it that has an old shirt lumped over it that says
“Melvin’s Place of BBQ”. Next to the counter stand an old TV, and some buffet
gear. On the other side of the room, beyond the three foot high wall that
separates this area from the dining area, and where it is really dark, there is
a small stage with some musicians gear on it, several other camping tables,
more buffet gear and other things. On the walls, there is one picture of a
1960s era soul band, and a framed article of the Huntsville Times about this
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Some would call it a dive. Some
would even call it a dump. Others would call it authentic. I would call it all
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To be very clear – it is not a
dirty place, not at all. It is just well worn, odd, eccentric, cobbled
together. The owner, Melvin, is a very nice old man, with a serious passion for
BBQ. When I asked him about his secret how to cook such a marvelous BBQ, I got
a fifteen minute lecture. No, actually it was more like a sermon, with fire and
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Melvin does not believe in wood. He
uses whatever is on hand – hickory, pecan, cherry, it doesn’t matter. The
secret to get the flavor in the meat, he told me, is the rub, not the wood. He
does his own rub and his own BBQ sauce – actually, he has nine different
sauces, and each of them makes the chicken taste differently in combination
with the rub. Melvin also does not believe in smoking the meat for hours. He
has better things to do than fire up the smoker in the middle of the night, he
said. Forty-five minutes is sufficient for a chicken - that is his believe. He
also does not turn the meat halfway through the process, nor does he poke it
with a thermometer, lest the juices would drip out. With all that, he is the
most unorthodox pitmaster I ever met. But his chicken proves him right – it is
divine. DIVINE! </div>
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I had heard so many good things
about Melvin’s chicken that I broke with my rule to have pulled pork at each
new BBQ place. The plate, rather the Styrofoam box, came loaded with two slices
of regular toast (untoasted), baked beans, potato salad, and a two drumsticks
and a chicken breast. The chicken was sitting in a puddle of his BBQ sauce
(which of the nine different varieties, I have no idea), that apparently oozed
out from the skin. The skin was a bit leathery and not crisp at all, but the
meat under it was the most tender, juicy, flavorful and, yes, divine chicken I
ever had. It had a very nice smoke aroma, too – something you do not
necessarily expect with a smoking time of only forty-five minutes. The potato
salad was top notch as well, being a mayonnaise based, fairly sour, concoction.
The baked beans were okay, but nothing to write home about. They swam in a thin
liquid and had some vegetables and meat in it, but the taste was really nothing
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With a can of soda, I paid eleven
bucks (the lecture was priceless, yet at no cost), which is more than can be
usually expected in such a location. But it is well worth it, and I can only
suggest that you let the, well, ramshackle environment and the very interesting
interior design of the restaurant not deter you from what would become a
defining moment in your live – when you take the first bite out of Melvin’s
chicken. It is just divine!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 45 – Jim’n Nick’s Community Bar-B-Q</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Montgomery</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Alabama</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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Finally, I had to see what the fuzz is all about. Jim’n
Nick’s Community Bar-B-Q is a growing chain of BBQ restaurants that wins awards
left and right. Most recently, it was listed as the Number one BBQ chain in
America by USA Today, which had to say “If you're going to open a chain of barbecue
restaurants in the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and
Colorado, you better make sure that your product is on-point.”</div>
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What started in 1985 in Birmingham,
Alabama, has spread now to 33 locations in the
states mentioned above, with two more restaurants coming soon to Colorado.</div>
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Alabama, as the nucleus of
the whole operation, has 14 places where you can dine at a Jim’n Nick’s – I was
at their Montgomery
restaurant, on my way home from a Biscuits Baseball game at beautiful Riverwalk
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Well, first of all, their address is somehow screwed up –
had I trusted my GPS, it would have led to a place two blocks from there.
Fortunately, I saw it in the corner of my eye when I passed it and was able to
turn around immediately. The restaurant is one of those typical “family
oriented” buildings that could be used by various different chains after one
another. The inside, too, is rather unassuming – the typical red faux leather
booths, wooden tables, pipes under the wooden ceiling, wooden pillars and
beams, and brick walls with a few posters as decoration. All very clean, very
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And nice was also the food. The meat of my pork plate had a
nice smoke aroma, it was tender and juicy, and fairly lean with just a bit of
fat that could be easily put aside. It was not pulled, but rather chopped, and
it also came already smothered in sauce – as everybody knows, that is a total
no-no in the BBQ world. Granted, their original sauce - a concoction based on
vinegar and pepper, yet with some more ingredients in it to make it thick and
red - is quite tasty, with a hint of spiciness. But please don’t drown your
meat in it – that is my, the customer’s job, if I chose to! Their other sauce
is called “Habanero” and is obviously supposed to be the hot cousin. While is
has a bit more kick to it, I would not dare calling it a “hot sauce”, because
for that it lacks some serious punch. </div>
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While nothing of the meal was really outstanding, nothing
was an abysmal failure, as well. It was nice BBQ in a nice atmosphere … with a
hefty check at the end. Almost eighteen bucks for the plate with a sweat tea,
holy moly, that is what I would call steep. I had much better BBQ in a more
authentic environment for not even half of that. So, my resume is: Nice but
overpriced. At least here in the BBQ belt - they might have more success with this concept in Colorado.<br />
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<b>Quest Log No 64 – O Taste and See BBQ</b><br />
<b>Madison</b><b>, Madison County</b><br />
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To name a mobile BBQ stand after a
Bible verse (Psalm 34:8, “O taste and see that the LORD is good”) is probably
one of those things you have to expect here in the Bible belt. But that kind of
commits you to serve a most righteous BBQ, too. Well, their motto “Experience
Real Smoke Taste” is certainly a step in the right direction. Actually, if they
would add the word “Strong” after “Real”, that statement would be the absolute
truth. I never had any BBQ were there was such an intense and prominent smoke
flavor in the meat. Not that this is a bad thing, not at all. But it makes you
think – either the guys have found the holy grail of BBQ and developed a
smoking process that is much superior over everything else, or … well, they
found other means to infuse their meat with that kind of overwhelming smoke
aroma. The pulled pork I had also tasted as if mixed with some BBQ sauce. All
in all very flavorful, and very, very smoky. The meat was succulent, although
with some big blotches of fat in it. But those were easy to spot and I could
remove them right away. The pork plate I had came with two sauces, a mild one
and a spicy one that was more like a more sour version of the former, instead
of real hot. The thick red mild sauce was a very nicely balanced sweet’n’sour affair
with a nice round aroma, and it was so good that I scooped the rest up with the
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Also, the potato salad and the cole
slaw I choose as the two sides were top notch. The potato salad had a very nice
mustardy tang to it, and the slaw came with sour crème dressing and with just
the right amount of vinegar and salt and pepper so that the cabbage aroma was
still noticeable. The whole meal, with a can of soda, was not really cheap – I
paid about eleven bucks for it. And although the portion size was not that big,
the quality of the food kind of justified the price. My wife had the brisket
plate with BBQ beans and green beans, and she had quite the same experience –
the brisket had a lot of fat on it on the outside, which was easily removed,
the taste of the meat was very smoky and very flavorful, it was succulent, and
the sides were top notch. </div>
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The stand is really mobile, setting
up at the East Madison Shopping Center
on Hughes Road
from Tuesday through Thursday, at Jordan
Lane in front of Trees n Trends on Friday, and at
the Corner of Winchester Road & Naugher in the Sunoco Parking Lot on
Saturdays. That is certainly a lot of work for the really nice folks who own
this business, and I hope they can establish a good customer base and make a
good living with that nomadic life style. But they seem to love what they are
doing, and it shows in their quality food. It is righteous BBQ, after all.</div>
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<b>Quest Log No 63 – Gin House Barbecue</b><br />
<b>Elkmont, Limestone
County</b><br />
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Just call me Ahab from now on.
Captain Ahab. I finally hunted down the white whale, which I thought would
elude me forever. Well, actually the good Captain in the book died while
fighting with the whale, a fate that I fortunately could avoid. But for over
two years I thought that the Ole Gin House BBQ in Elkmont would be the one that
got away.</div>
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I’ve been there three times before
in 2011. The first time was on a Monday in April, but the restaurant was closed
- no service on Mondays. At the next try, in July, they were on summer break.
And then, in October, they were closed for good. </div>
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But a couple of days ago, I
stumbled across a facebook-site with their name on it that had very current
entries of specials and so on. Needless to say, I went there at the first
opportunity. </div>
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From the locals, I had heard
stories about this place, which was formerly run by an elderly lady with pink
hair, who had stuffed the restaurant with all kinds of quirky memorabilia and
interesting decorating pieces. But together with dropping the “Ole” from the
name, the new owners also cleaned up the joint and it is now a fairly bland and
unremarkable country eatery. There are two rooms - one fairly darkly lit big
one and another to the side, which receives some natural light through windows.
Other than an American flag on a pole in one of the corners, there is no
decoration worth talking about. There is a small buffet-like counter in the
entrance hall where for $5.99 a meal is assembled to your specifications. The
choices are the usual southern staples, like fried okra, mashed potatoes, fried
chicken, and steamed corn. But you also can order from the menu, which has the
typical BBQ-stuff on it. Not surprisingly, I opted for a large pork plate with
potato salad and cole slaw.</div>
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The pork came in large chunks that
were lean and hat some bark on it. Unfortunately, the meat was not very tender
and it had a very funky sour vinegary taste, and no smoke flavor at all. My
guess is that it was either prepared in a slow cooker or by using some very
strange wood-less smoking process. The BBQ sauce it came with did also nothing
to save the taste – it was a thick red puree, which also had the flavor of
pureed tomatoes with a little salt and pepper. Strange. Don’t get me wrong, it
was not too bad, and certainly perfectly edible, but also most definitely not
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The potato salad on the other hand
was very tasty – a concoction with eggs and mayonnaise, not too sour, not too
tart, not too sweet. The cole slaw however was nothing special, just some
shredded cabbage in a sour crème based sauce that could have used much more
salt and pepper than was there.</div>
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Altogether, I paid close to ten
bucks for the plate and a soft drink. Needless to say, that I had better BBQ
for half the price. </div>
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But at least there was one valuable
lesson that I learned today: Next time I encounter a white whale, I will just
let the beast go its merry way, and will let bygones be bygones. </div>
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<![endif]--><b>Quest Log No 62 – Whitts Barbecue</b>
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<b>Moulton, Lawrence County</b><br />
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As everybody knows, there are two
BBQ dynasties in North Alabama, the Gibsons and the Whitts. The latter has
spread over three States, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, where there are about
30 Restaurants, owned by different branches of the clan and some franchise takers.
The usual layout is as a drive-through/walk-in, no-sit-down place – basically the
BBQ equivalent of a fast food joint. It took me a while, but now I have been to
all five locations in the Quest area, 2 in Athens, 2 in Decatur, and the last
one just today near Moulton. And while the first four fit the description
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The building is a custom built, no
frills affair that oozes the charm of a bygone era. The name is put on the
front of the building in big bright red letters, and the dining room is
enclosed by a large window front. It has about half a dozen tables with four
chairs each, and through the windows you have a great view on the adjacent gas
station and on the Alabama Highway 20 that runs next to the parking lot. </div>
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I had my usual pork plate, which
comes with three sides – baked beans, cole slaw, and potato salad in my case,
plus a soft bread roll. With a medium sweet tea, it was only roughly eight and
a half Dollars, which is a very good deal, indeed. Even more so, because the
food was real good. Not remarkably good, not spectacularly good, just plain good.
Middle of the road good. Basic good BBQ with no frills and no outstanding
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The meat was tender, lean and
succulent, with a nice, not too distinctive smoke flavor to it. The two sauces
were also good, but not remarkable – the so called “Red Sauce” is the simple standard
pepper/vinegar concoction, while the so called “Rib Sauce”, which is supposed
to best when eaten on a Sunday, is a thick red, sweet’n’sour affair. The potato
salad and the baked beans could have been straight out of a can from the next
supermarket, and the cole slaw was shredded into tiny pieces with a vinegar
dressing over it. All together that made a very decent BBQ meal, without any
outstanding characteristics. There certainly is better pulled pork out there,
better potato salad, and so on, but while in most places it is usually only one
of those parts of the meal that stands out, here the quality and taste was on
the same level – good, but not remarkable. This consistency, I would take that
any day.</div>
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<b>Quest Log No 61 – Smokey C’s BBQ & Wings</b><br />
<b>Decatur, Morgan County</b><br />
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Do you judge a book by its cover? I
must admit, I’ve been doing this once or twice. So what do you expect how a
real BBQ place with Killer-Q has to look like? A raggedy old shack with no
windows on a lonely country road, a sleek brick house with neon signs in
Downtown, a nondescript store with a hand-written menu on a black board in a
strip mall, a wooden palace with hunting trophies on the walls on a busy
highway, or a burger-chain look-alike in an industrial area? The correct answer
is, of course, all of the above. Been there, ate in that. There just is no
telling what kind of BBQ you might encounter when you stand before a restaurant
– the only way to find out is to go in and try it. I’ve been surprised more
than a couple of times, negatively as well as positively, during this quest. </div>
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So, what’s so special about Smokey
C’s BBQ & Wings in Decatur? The building looks like any given
fast-food-chain restaurant in the country. The patrons are mostly recruited
from the workers of all those industrial plants on the west side of the town.
It is situated next to a gas station at the Alabama Highway 20, which is quite
a busy road in this area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inside the
building, there is not much decoration on the walls, and the reddish-pinkish
plastic furniture does not exactly qualify it for a title story in Southern
Living. </div>
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You order at the counter right next
to the entrance, where you have the choice between the usual selection of meats
- pork, turkey, ribs, chicken, you know the drill. You can have the meat either
on a sandwich, which comes in two sizes, or on a plate with two sides.</div>
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Guess what – I chose the large plate
with 6 ounces of pulled pork (4 ounces would be the regular size), potato salad
and spicy mustard slaw. The plate also came with a piece of cornbread, and
together with a fountain drink I forked over just slightly over eight and a
half dollars. Very nice price, but what kind of food can you expect for the
price of a fast-food-chain burger meal?</div>
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As said before, never judge a book
by its cover, always sit down and smell the roses. What can I say? I am a fan
now. </div>
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The meat looked like Killer-Q, with
a wonderful pink ring and some serious bark. And the looks did not lie - its
flavor was perfectly smoky, with just the right amount of burnt wood flavor to
make it special. I rarely had pork that was as juicy and tender and lean all
together like this one. Real exquisite stuff.</div>
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I was really reluctant to pour any
sauce over it, but eventually I did – starting with the hot and spicy one. Big
mistake. One bite and my mouth was numb for a minute or so. Definitely too hot
for my taste, so I switched to the one labeled BBQ sauce. Oh, well, that was
your garden variety sweet’n’sour concoction, thick and red and, ahem, a little
sweet and mostly sour. Not bad, but I would have wished for a simple vinegar-pepper
sauce to just support the smoky meat flavor without giving it a totally
different direction. </div>
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The potato salad on the other hand
could have used a slight re-direction into a more distinctive aroma. It was not
exactly bland, but also not very flavorful. Which cannot be said of the spicy
mustard slaw – that thing gave me a kick in the pants, yessir! The mustard
aroma was very prominent, and by gosh, spicy it was. But unlike the spicy BBQ
sauce, it did not numb my taste buds, but left a very pleasant tingling
sensation in my mouth. At the end, I used the excess sauce from the slaw for
the pork, instead of the BBQ sauce. And the tiny rest, I scooped up with the
cornbread, which had a very bread-like flavor with just a slight hint of
sweetness. I’ve had cornbread before that was more like a sweet pound cake than
real bread, but not this specimen, and actually that is how I like my cornbread.</div>
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All in all, although from the
outside and also on the inside, Smokey C’s BBQ & Wings is nothing special, their food is
top notch. And next time I’ll bring my wife – she is the wings expert in our
family.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com03075 Alabama 20, Decatur, AL 35601, USA34.6198605 -87.0543873000000334.6198095 -87.05446630000003 34.6199115 -87.054308300000031tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-83299159792569645462013-12-31T23:21:00.000-06:002014-01-09T21:27:34.751-06:0060 and countingWhen I started this quest, I originally had a little over 60 BBQ places on my list. My goal back then, two years ago, was to visit half of it.<br />
Now, I have visited 60 restaurants here in the quest area, and 44 outside of this area, and I spent almost $1500 on it. That makes for a lot of red meat in the past two years - and for a lot of fun and great stories.<br />
There are only a handful of places left here on my list - and I truly believe that I have assembled an utmost comprehensive list of BBQs in the Counties of Madison, Limestone, Morgan, and Lawrence. There are two reasons, why those few are still on the list - I have only limited time to do this, basically only every other Friday, and some of the places are more than an hour's drive from where I live; and secondly, I have shied away from some of those, because judging from the outside, they seemed not desirable to visit for me. <br />
But let's see what the future brings - my goal for the new year is to cross out every entry on my list ...<br />
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Oh, and I have found a new quest, too. The newspaper blog AL.com ran an article about 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints you have to visit before you die (<a href="http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/11/22_greasy-spoon_burger_joints.html">http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/11/22_greasy-spoon_burger_joints.html</a>) ... I read that article and discovered that half a dozen or so are in my neighborhood. So, while I do not intend to work through the whole list, those that are in reach are absolutely something I need to visit. And write about my experience, of course: <a href="http://greasyspoonsinbama.blogspot.com/">http://greasyspoonsinbama.blogspot.com/</a>BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-20787577619527854422013-12-12T23:39:00.000-06:002013-12-15T23:41:11.357-06:00Larry & Harry's Bar-B-Que<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 44 – Harry & Larry’s Bar-B-Que</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winter Garden, Florida</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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My experience after now three years of working on the Quest
is that BBQ places in North Alabama are on
average better than anywhere else I go. Once in a while you find a jewel also
in other areas, but they are few and far between. Because my job involves
frequent trips to Orlando,
I had the opportunity to try many BBQ restaurants there over the years. I found
many that are easy to forget, and only two that are up to par with the best
ones at home - Yellow Dog Eats in Windermere, and Bubbalou’s Bodacious Bar-B-Que
in Orlando.
Today, this short list received a new entrance - Larry & Harry's Bar-B-Que in
Winter Garden.</div>
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A hole in a wall – seldomly has this expression described
the actual situation better than with Harry & Larry’s. Winter Garden is a
town of about 35000 people some fifteen miles northwest of Orlando. The historic downtown has been
beautifully restored and today contains an assortment of restaurants, shops,
and cafés, a couple of museums and a performing arts venue. And, of course, a
BBQ place, which you might miss driving by, because it is hidden behind a big
old tree that covers almost the entire front. Immediately after you enter the
place, you stand in front of a counter where you exchange your money for a card
out of a poker deck that is sitting in a metal base. This you carry to your
table and place it there, so that the server can identify who gets what. The
dining room itself is a long narrow tube with five simple red wooden booths on
each side. The decoration consists of several old signs for food and drink
products from an era long gone, a large print of the place’s name, and some odd
wooden birds. It is one the most cozy atmospheres I ever found in a BBQ place.
Also, the staff is extremely friendly and nice, and if you want to, you can
even sit outside on the boardwalk on a couple of iron garden tables and eat
your Q. </div>
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Although it was 86 degrees in the middle of December, I
chose to dine inside. As usual, I had the pork plate, which came with two sides
– baked beans and fries in my case – and a slice of Texas toast. Unfortunately, they did not
have potato salad, but I do not hold that against them, because nobody is
perfect.</div>
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Nevertheless, the baked beans were almost perfect. There
were two kinds of beans in it, Pinto and Red Kidney, with a good helping of
smoked meat. Top notch. Very savory - maybe a bit more sweetness could have
improved the taste - and with a smoke aroma you would not believe. That of
course came directly from the meat – the pulled pork had a very distinctive
smoke aroma, a perfect pink ring and an intensive BBQ taste straight out of the
BBQ bible. Marvelous. The pork was pulled, but came in big chunky pieces, and I
had a lot of very tasty bark on it. It was very tender and juicy, without being
mushy. Unfortunately I also found a few pieces of fat, but due to the coarse
cut of the meat, it was easy to spot and remove them. A little bit more
diligence when pulling the meat would have prevented that.</div>
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They have five sauces there, of which four are of the thick
red variety, in different stages of hotness. Nothing special there. But the
fifth sauce is something else. It is mustard based and has just the right
spiciness to make your mouth tingle when eaten on the Texas toast. Together with the smoked pork
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All this wonderful food has its price, though – over
thirteen bucks for the plate with a fountain drink is not cheap. But it was
surely worth every cent.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com054 West Plant Street, Winter Garden, FL 34787, USA28.565266 -81.586474000000013.043231500000001 -122.89506800000001 54.0873005 -40.27788000000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-53935507623333447792013-12-09T19:00:00.000-06:002013-12-15T19:01:56.970-06:00Cave Inn BBQ<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 43 – Cave Inn BBQ</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winter Garden, Florida</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
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usually never do that, always checking at least the describing text on the book
jacket. Or, in the case of BBQ joints outside the BBQ Belt, I try to find their
menu on the internet to check if it is worth my time. I also get an overview on
the reviews that other people posted. And that is an especially good tactic in
a place like Orlando, Florida, where you very easily can end up in
some kind of tourist trap if you haven't done your homework. </div>
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And that is why, before I committed myself to the Cave Inn
BBQ in Winter Garden, just a few miles outside of Orlando, I checked the menu on their website
- and found all those familiar items on it like pulled pork, ribs, and brisket.
Well, classic case of false labeling here. When I ordered the BBQ MMMEAT Sandwich,
which consists of pulled pork, beef, sweet'n'spicy sauce, and red cabbage slaw
on a pita bread, the friendly server alerted me to the fact that they do not
smoke their meats, but grill them because "it just tastes better".
They also smother them with sauce to "keep in the juices". Excellent.
That's how you do ... well, if you do it this way, please don't call it BBQ,
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So, this sandwich has basically the same right or reason to
call itself BBQ, as I have to call myself King of the Tennessee Valley.
Moreover, the sauce it was smothered with totally overwhelmed almost any other
aroma that might have been present. Only the marinated red cabbage slaw had a
chance to being noticed, the meat could have been cardboard, it would not have
made any difference. Also, while the pork was reasonably tender, the beef was
quite chewy. Smoking it for a few hours might have helped with that. And then,
and only then, you might call it BBQ. And charge 13 bucks for it, with a drink
and a side of fries. Oh, and over all this rant about the food, I kinda forgot
to mention the actually very nice atmosphere there, the dinosaur themed
decoration, and the very friendly and helpful staff. They also have live music
there regularly and a very cozy bar area. What they do not have is BBQ. Except
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com113848 Tilden Road, Winter Garden, FL 34787, USA28.505074 -81.5886510000000272.9830395000000003 -122.89724500000003 54.0271085 -40.280057000000028tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-20823677987609634732013-11-22T23:03:00.000-06:002013-12-04T23:05:24.602-06:00Mr. Crite's Bar-B-Q<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Quest Log No 60 – Mr. Crite’s Bar-B-Q</b><br />
<b>Athens</b><b>, Limestone County</b><br />
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Far away from the beaten path, one
will sometimes find the best things. Mainstream might be safe and familiar, but
surely it is also boring and unexciting. Of course, something outside of the area
of the common denominator might be disappointing, unacceptable, or even
dangerous. But first, you have to find those places, because they usually do
not advertise, there are no street signs, they are not on facebook, and they
are hidden in locations where you probably never thought to find them. So,
listen to the locals, they know. But do not assume that you can duplicate their
experience. They grew up with that particular whatever-it-is, and so they are
biased and think it is the greatest whatever-it-is in the World.</div>
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That is the way I heard of Mr.
Crite’s. A Buddy of mine lives in Florence, and
on his way to and from work in Huntsville,
he often stops there and gets some BBQ for the family dinner. Another co-worker
lived nearby for some time, and it was her family’s tradition to get BBQ from
Mr. Crite’s each Saturday. Both raved about this place, so a year ago I checked
it out. Alas, only from the outside, because it was closed. They have weird
business hours there, and during the winter months it is open basically only Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays from 11 AM to 4 PM. </div>
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But I would have not gone in
anyway. Not only is this restaurant, and I loose the term very loosely here, in
the freakin’ middle of nowhere, surrounded by woods and fields and all kinds of
rural landscape. The building looks positively rotten from the outside, and one
year ago I was not yet ready to accept that there was not necessarily food
poisoning lurking in those shacks. Now, with a lot more experience under my
belt and also having been to worse places during this quest, I am not that
squeamish anymore. Or maybe I just am at a point in my life where I just accept
my fate and don’t try to avoid it.</div>
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Anyway, as rotten as the building
looks from the outside, the inside will not win any designer prizes anytime
soon either. The light in there is dim, the ceiling is low, the floor is worn
out, the furniture is a motley mixture of wooden picnic tables and ordinary
tables, the space is tight, there is a beat-up air conditioner hanging in one
of the two windows, while at the other window the glass pane is missing and all
that is keeping the Alabamian Nature from creeping into the building is a holey
fly screen. The only redeeming aspect of the interior is a cheerful mural on
the wall that depicts some farm people with hatchets who are going after some
hapless pigs. I’ve seen horror movies that started in places like this.
Fortunately for me, I did not have a bulbous, blonde scream queen with me today,
so there the probability for me ending up being chased through the woods by
some toothless, overalls wearing Half-Zombies with Shotguns was pretty low.</div>
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What I did expect, though, based on
the tales of my Buddies, was above average BBQ. </div>
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Didn’t happen.</div>
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When I hear the sound of a
Microwave coming from the Kitchen, my mood goes down immediately. I am not sure
whether it was the beans or the meat, or both, that was re-heated that way. And
I was not there late in the day, when some stuff might have needed a little
fire under the behind to bring it up to serving temperature. No, I was there
ten minutes after it opened that day, so everything should have been bubbling
and steaming without exacting it to those waves.</div>
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It certainly did not help to make
the food better, but the baked beans were not very memorable to begin with. Not
very sweet, not very tangy, kind of bland, of the
open-a-can-and-throw-it-in-the-microwave variety. The potato salad on the other
hand was creamy and very tasty, and had a made from scratch character. </div>
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The meat was kind of mushy and not
the most tender I ever had. It also had a very prominent aroma, which either
came from too much smoke or some weird spice they put on it. The taste was not
bad, but it will also not become my favorite anytime soon. </div>
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I tried to counter that with some
sauce, of which there were two varieties – one rather bland thick red
sweet’n’spicy concoction, and one also thick and red and just spicy. Well, the
sweet’n’spicy bottle came with a dried up plug of the sauce in the spout, which
was kind of icky, so I just squeezed a tiny bit out to take a me measurement,
but then stuck with spicy sauce. But here too, nothing to write home about. It
was just a thick red spicy sauce, without any outstanding attributes. </div>
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Together with a can of soda from a
fridge right next to the table I sat at, I paid just under nine bucks for the
meal. I consider that a good deal, although the food was clearly sub-par. But I
did not get food poisoning, was not bitten by a snake, had not black widow
trying to befriend me, and now have eventually mastered my inner fear of rotten
BBQ shacks. Bring it on.</div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com06723 Snake Road, Athens, AL 35611, USA34.7787162 -87.20750120000002434.7786652 -87.207580200000024 34.7787672 -87.207422200000025tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-85302362987224288062013-11-07T17:51:00.000-06:002013-11-26T22:04:30.373-06:00Sparky’s Burgers, Barbeque & Espresso<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 29 – Sparky’s Burgers, Barbeque & Espresso</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hatch, New Mexico</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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<i>Remark: Sometimes I revisit a place. And if there is something to add to my comments, I do that. This happened here - see below.</i><br />
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<u><i>Original comments from 30 Nov 2012:</i></u></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The small town of Hatch, New Mexico, claims for
itself the title of “Chile Capital of the World”. Coming into town from the
interstate, you have to cross a bridge over the Rio Grande,
the “Great River”. And Sparky’s Burgers, Barbeque
& Espresso, which is located smack in the middle of the town, is claiming
that they are the “Best BBQ in the Southwest” and also the home of the “World
Famous Green Chile Burger”.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">That is a lot of superlatives for a town of about 1700 souls at the
crossing of nowhere and lost. And since I hadn’t had any halfway decent BBQ in
this area of the world yet, I was naturally curious to give it a try.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">At first, the combination of Burgers, Barbeque and Espresso seemed a
little odd to me. But I thought, it is in the desert and to survive there you
have to leave specialization behind and become a generalist. And why not have a
good espresso after a sumptuous pork plate? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And quite frankly, when I finally saw the place, it was not weird at
all anymore. The building itself is a tourist attraction of the first degree –
a big Uncle Sam with a green Chile in his hand next to the parking lot
entrance, whimsical figurines on top of the roof, Ronald McDonald and the
Kentucky Fried Colonel sitting on a bench at the entrance, a sign inside that
says “Even if you are the president of the U.S., we still won’t accept your
check”, a big stuffed Moose’s head in the dining room … “quirky” does not even
begin to describe the atmosphere of this place. I instantaneously loved it.
There are so many wonderful details to discover, inside and outside – this
restaurant has charm and originality, without drifting into the fake and
artificial décor of so many “original” places made especially for tourists. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, after the surroundings were very much to my liking, I was anxious
to test the claim of “best BBQ in the Southwest”. Well, how good could it be,
knowing from my own experience that the standard of BBQ in that region usually
ends where the standard at home, in the BBQ Belt, just begins?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To find out, I ordered a pork plate with spicy beans and pineapple
slaw. You have to cut the folks out west some slack – they cook with what the
land provides, and so they put things in their dishes that may seem strange for
the rest us sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But I must say that the pineapple slaw was extremely tasty, fresh and
crunchy. Made with yoghurt and seasoned only very lightly, the pineapple in it
was a very nice twist that gave the salad some distinct sweetness with every
bite.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The spicy beans were labeled correctly – it was pinto beans with a kick
in the butt. I bet they put some of that Chile in there, and maybe also some
Cayenne Pepper. It was not uncomfortably hot, but surely not the sweet
concoction we are used to here in the South. It harmonized beautifully with the
sweetness of the pineapple slaw and the great hickory flavor of the meat. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The pork also had a nice pink ring and some seriously tasty bark.
However, it was kind of mushy, with a squishy texture, plus there were some
rather annoying blotches of fat and gristle in it, and that somewhat dampened my
enthusiasm about this place. For top notch BBQ, you need to use high quality
meat, and this pork was merely okay. That the BBQ sauce they had on the tables
- a fruity tomato based creation with a moderate spiciness to it - was also
very tasty did not really much to redeem the verdict on the meat. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Then again, for seven and a half bucks, what can you expect? Well, I
had fantastic meat repeatedly for less than that, here at home.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, is their claim to be the “Best BBQ in the Southwest” only one of
those stupid superlatives they seem to be so fond of in that town? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Probably they are actually telling the truth. In that region, out of my
own experience, good BBQ is hard to find. And while here, in the BBQ Belt,
Sparky’s would probably rank in the lower midfield of the list of BBQ places, I
believe that in New Mexico
and the adjoining areas, they might actually be the top dog. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But what the heck, next time I am in the vicinity, I will go there
again. To discover more whimsical details, to maybe try the famous Green Chile
Burger, to have an Espresso and a piece of cake after that – but probably not
to eat more BBQ there. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><u><i>Additional comments from 07 November 2013:</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And a year later, I came back – and had The Oinker. And a Cappuccino. Which
led me to revise my previous judgment. Mea culpa.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, The Oinker. A Green Chili Cheeseburger with pulled pork on top. Fantastic
flavor, on the spicy side, of course, but nevertheless – a must have. I also
bought a T-Shirt, because I had to make good something. In combination with a
beef patty, some cheese and green chili, the pulled pork there actually works.
Sometimes you just have to look a little to the left or right to find truly
awesome stuff. So, whenever you are in the vicinity, go to Sparky’s and have
The Oinker. And a cappuccino. And then just sit there for a while and
contemplate the awesomeness of things. In general. Or with green chili on it. Oink,
Oink.</span></div>
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BBQ No 42 – Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que</span></b><br />
<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">El Paso</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Texas</span></b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Texas</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> is, of course, a big state. You’ll find
deserts in there, as well as woodlands, pasture lands, big cities, one horse
towns, hills and mountains, valleys and plateaus. And as diverse as its
landscape the cuisine is, too. From steak to enchiladas, from green chili to
potatoes, from beer to wine, they have everything there. And naturally, they
also have BBQ. They often use mesquite instead of hickory as fuel for the
smokers, and because Texas
is certainly more famous for its cattle than its hogs, they generally excel at
beef more than at pork.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">El Paso</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> is something special, even in this
heterogeneous state. It close proximity to Mexico, the exchange of ideas,
people, and recipes over decades, as well as the fact that today over eighty
percent of the population are of Hispanic decent, has created a cuisine that is
heavily Mexican-oriented. Since slow smoking of meat is not a staple of that
particular kitchen culture, there are only relatively few original BBQ
restaurants for a city of that size, and of course there are some restaurants
of BBQ franchises there. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que is one of those franchises, having a whopping
195 restaurants from Arkansas to Wyoming – though none in Alabama yet. And I guess that all look the
same, a mixture of your typical neighborhood family steakhouse and an angler’s
trophy case.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In El Paso, they have two locations, and
I went to the one on North Mesa, right off
I-10.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It was Sunday around noon, and the place was packed with El Pasoians,
with Cowboy hats all around me and half the people wearing Dallas Cowboys shirts.
It was a very pleasant surprise that my server was wearing a Tennessee Titans
shirt, me being a Titans fan and all – made me feel a little homesick.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As usual, I ordered the pork plate, which at Famous Dave’s they
inexplicably call “Georgia Chopped Pork”. I’ve been to BBQ joints in Georgia, and
they don’t usually chop their pork. On the other hand, since that’s what they
seem to do in Mississippi,
I surmised that them Texans just got their geography mixed up. Georgia,
Mississippi, same difference – all in the dirty South, might as well be one
state after all, who knows, who cares. Anyway, as sides I chose baked beans
and, on the suggestion of the server, Mac’n’Cheese. The plate also comes with a
corn bread muffin, which has, of course, green and red chili in it. Not my cup
of tea, I do not really like the mixture of sweet cornbread with spicy stuff.
But in El Paso
and vicinity it is next to impossible to avoid spicy ingredients in places
where you least expect them. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, I took a bite and that was that. I also tried the BBQ chips with
Sweet’n’Zesty sauce that is served as are chips and salsa in Mexican
restaurants. The chips are tasty, but also made with a lot of spices. Carramba,
are they trying to kill all non-natives with their cooking? And then they have
six different BBQ sauces at Famous Dave’s: Georgia Mustard, Texas Pit,
Sweet’n’Zesty, Rich&Sassy, Wilbur’s Revenge, and Devil’s Spit.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If your tongue is not laced with leather or impregnated with Teflon,
stay away from most of those. It is good sense to avoid any sauce that has the
words “Revenge” or “Devil” in it anyway. The other four are not as hot, but
still pack a punch, more or less. I decided to stay with the Georgia Mustard
sauce, which is also spicy, of course, but not as much and it has a very nice
mustardy undertone. The other three sauces were not that special, just plain
old boring red, thick, and spicy sauces. But then a problem arose – the pork
came with Sweet’n’Zesty sauce already poured over it. Again, the question is
yelled at the BBQ world: Why, oh why, do you think that I want my pork
pre-conditioned with sauce? Let me decide what to pour on it, especially when
you have six sauces to choose from! Carramba!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So it was inevitable to mix those two sauces, at least for parts of the
pork. Which was reasonably tender, but also had big flakes of fat and gristle
in it – not my favorite texture. It also tasted not so much wood-smoked than infused
with bacon flavor. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The baked beans were also only so-so, with a taste straight out of a
supermarket can. The Mac’n’Cheese on the other hand, while not being anything
close to a revelation, were at least interesting, with green chili and corn in
it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For all that, and bottomless refills on my soft drink, which I
certainly needed, I paid a bit more than fifteen bucks. Not the cheapest BBQ
meal I ever had, and certainly not with the quality to warrant that price. Next
time I am in El Paso,
I will stick to the real local cuisine – maybe there is a place where they have
two different menus, one for the locals and one for us tourists with actually
edible stuff on it. Carramba!</span></div>
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BBQ No 41 – Arby's</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madison</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Alabama</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, once in a while one or another of the national fast food chains
decides to spice up their menu with a BBQ-themed item. It should go without
saying that those ventures cannot be compared to our local BBQ – they are
worlds, no, strike that, they are universes apart. But as an alternative to the
regular menu items, it might just work. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Next in line is Arby’s, your friendly neighborhood slicer of luncheon
meats. They claim that the brisket they serve now on their new Smokehouse
Brisket Sandwich has been smoked for thirteen hours. Sounds good at first, but
what does that really mean? That their marketing department knows how to play
the numbers game? That they have a portable smoker attached to each store now?
That they read a book or two about BBQ? That they are really trying their best
to bring us authentic brisket?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Well, let’s give them a few breaks. First, it goes without saying that
smoking the brisket each day in every store appears to be very impractical. So
they smoke it elsewhere, pack it in cellophane, truck it around, and cut it
fresh at the stores. I have no reason to doubt their claim smoking it for
thirteen hours. But that in itself does not say anything about its tenderness
and flavor. It only tells you that their marketing department indeed read a
book or two about BBQ, especially the chapters about how much time it generally
takes to prepare the meat for consumption. Bravo. You get an A for reading
skills, now sit down and listen to the verdict about tenderness and flavor.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Since the brisket meat is not really sliced, but rather shaved, it comes
with a kind of default tenderness, for it is very tough to really chew hard on
paper thin meat. As for the flavor, I have to say that there was something that
resembled smoke aroma, but just for a brief moment. It was immediately
overwhelmed by the extreme saltiness of the meat. As I write this, about eight
hours after eating the sandwich, I still have heartburn. The sandwich comes
with fried and battered onion rings, liquid Gouda cheese, mayonnaise, and Arby’s own BBQ
sauce. Of the 610 calories that monster tries to stack directly on your hips, a
whopping 320 are from fat. 1230 mg of Sodium more than explain the salty taste,
I think. And there are more ingredients that read like an advertising brochure
for a cardiologist. So, from a nutritional standpoint, you better stay away
from this conglomerate of irresponsibility. But does it at least taste good, so
you could order it as your last meal on death row, if you ever came into this
conundrum? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Don’t bother, die hungry instead. There is no discernible influence the
smoked brisket has on the taste of the sandwich. The prevailing aroma is that
of cheese and BBq sauce. And salt. I need a Pepto. Now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 40 – Triple D Bar-b-cue</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rome</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Georgia</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I love planes. And I love to watch planes flying around. Straight or in
circles, in loopings or in Cuban-8s, in formation or solo, slow, fast, low,
high, it doesn’t matter. And what better place to be then, than at an Air show?
And if this Air show also has a BBQ competition attached, I am in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So I went to Rome, Georgia, to the annual Wings over North Georgia Air
Show and their </span>Kansas City Barbeque Society sanctioned <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Smoke’n’Thunder BBQ Classic competition. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The weather was perfect, the flying was exciting, and there were at
least half a dozen big BBQ stands that sold their stuff to the Air show
spectators. I picked one to have lunch from based on three criteria: it had a
pink trailer, they were smoking in a small rig just beside the trailer, and the
line in front of the cashier was the longest. Just must be good, don’t you
think?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Well, I had the pork sandwich with a sweat tea and a bag of chips for
ten bucks. The sandwich came wrapped in aluminum foil and without any fixins’.
There were a couple of jars with onions and marinated peppers, but I took a
pass on that. They had three different sauces standing around, from which I
picked the one that had “Spicy” written on it. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Suffice to say, it was either mislabeled, or my taste buds were already
numb from the smell of aviation gas that lay over the flight line. It was not
spicy at all, and not really flavorful either. It is really hard to describe,
because of the total absence of any aroma. But it lubricated the fairly dry
pork real well, so it was tolerable. The meat actually had some smoke aroma, and
it was tender and lean. It was also a sizeable portion, coming on one of those
big buns, so I think, given the circumstances, I got my money’s worth.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I have no idea where the Triple D guys ranked in the BBQ competition.
But based on my lunch experience, it can’t be too high. Or maybe they have a
different standard in Kansas City.
I rather stick to the North Alabama version of
it. If only we had an Air show here once in a while.</span></div>
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BBQ in Bamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10730483119205045097noreply@blogger.com0304 Russell Field Road Northeast, Richard B Russell Airport (RMG), Rome, GA 30165, USA34.3520022 -85.16330719999996334.3519512 -85.163386199999962 34.3520532 -85.163228199999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112179264797270955.post-78899127302573341052013-10-04T22:00:00.000-05:002013-10-06T00:31:49.472-05:00Ken's Bar-B-Que<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Non-Quest
BBQ No 39 – Ken’s Bar-B-Que</span></h1>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oneonta</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Alabama</b><br />
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<i>During my occasional travels, I
try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I
just really, really like that stuff ... </i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There are BBQ places in places where your first reaction is: where the
heck is that??! Oneonta, Alabama is one such place, you probably
never knew even existed. This town of about 6500 inhabitants is the county seat
of Blount County,
which is situated about 30 miles north of Birmingham.
Their greatest claim to fame is that there are three beautiful covered bridges
within the county borders, which are actually still in use. There is an annual
Covered Bridges festival in Oneonta, their High School Football Team is named
the Redskins, the US Highway 231 runs through it and the official town motto is
“A small city with big ideas”. That’s it. Oneonta,
Alabama. Not quite the center of
this planet’s gravity.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And if you type “BBQ, Oneonta” into Google Maps, the only result is a
place called “</span><span class="pp-place-title">O'so Good Bar B Que</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">”, although I can vouch for the fact that
there is at least one more – Ken’s Bar-B-Que, just adjacent to the WalMart, at
this location since 1970.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I stumbled upon Ken’s Bar-B-Que by accident, being on the way of one of
the covered bridges. As I do usually on my trips through the countryside, I had
planned my food stops ahead, and based on the information that Google Maps gave
me, I had chosen to visit the other place in Oneonta after I was done with the
bridge. But since I already had driven for six hours that day, and thus was
hungry as a lion, and Ken’s looked quite nice from the outside, I ditched that
plan and decided to eat right here, right now.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Did I mention that I was really, really hungry? The combo platter on
the menu, with pulled pork and smoked sausages, with fries, slaw and beans
looked like it could satisfy my appetite, so I ordered it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When it arrived, I almost regretted my bold decision, made out of an
empty stomach, which is never a wise move. Man, was that a lot of food! And to
be frank, I did not finish all of it, left the pickle, half of the slaw and the
slice of toast behind. Together with some sweat tea, I paid about thirteen
Dollars – I had less food and of lesser quality, too, for that kind of money
before.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The pork appeared to be chopped, not pulled to me, but it was very
tender and juicy, very lean and had a very subtle smoke aroma to it.
Unfortunately, it also had the sauce already on it, which I really don’t like.
What if the sauce does not taste good and I want to use ketchup instead? Am I
supposed to wash the sauce off the meat with the sweat tea, or what? Yeah,
right. Fortunately, this time the sauce was not too bad - a thick red
concoction, with underlying sweetness and a bit of understated spiciness. But
with pork that good, I wished they would serve a simple vinegar-pepper sauce.
Also, there was no extra sauce on the table, just a bottle of Ketchup and some
generic hot sauce. But when I ran out of sauce, I just substituted it with the
sauce from the baked beans. Those came with big chunks of meat in it, and the
sauce was not too sweet, as it is the case more often than I would care for.
Definitely, they take their sides seriously. That is also true for the slaw,
which came in a light sour crème dressing with only some pepper and salt. It
tasted very fresh and the cabbage was also very crunchy. Too bad that at the
end of the meal, I did not have any capacity left to gobble it all up.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">That was certainly partly the fault of the smoked sausage. Also with a
very subtle smoke aroma, and mildly spicy, they undoubtedly brought more
calories from fat with them then the lean pork. But they were oh so good that I
just could not stop myself and switch to the unquestionably more healthy
cabbage.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Well, the fries were just that – regular fries. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The dining room is decorated with mostly Tide paraphernalia, although I
also saw a couple small signs from the other team bashfully hidden in a corner.
They have two lamps hanging over the cash register in the form of futuristic
planes – very 1950s, very strange, very quirky. I like those kinds of details.
There are also tiles in the ceiling, which display words like “Bless You” in
neon colors. The atmosphere is very homey and the staff is extremely nice and
friendly. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">For a place that is not even on the map, Ken’s Bar-B-Que in Oneonta
serves a very high quality BBQ with very generous portions for a reasonable
price in a very nice setting. I just might need to write to the Google folks,
to alert them to their grave mistake. </span></div>
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