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re: Best city for Bar-B-Q in the SEC footprint?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:36 am to TheFourHorsemen
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:36 am to TheFourHorsemen
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Best city for Bar-B-Q in the SEC footprint?
All I know is that when Mojo Nixon met a space alien trucker that was looking for some BBQ, he took him to Dreamland BBQ in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where they had ribs, white bread, and ice cold beer.
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:47 am to TheFourHorsemen
Any place that is pit cooked. I do not like the smoker meats. I was raised on pit cooked, but seems to be less of those places around.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:52 am to TheFourHorsemen
Just outside Austin Texas would be my personal destination in whatever little town that is with the bbq joints and bbq pits and long picnic tables. That shite is incredible.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 10:54 am to robot55
quote:Yep. That town punches way above its weight.
Lockhart, Tx
Posted on 8/1/24 at 11:25 am to Rendlo
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One and Only
Probably one of the worst BBQ spots in Memphis. Their sauce is basically high fructose corn syrup with a little flavoring
Posted on 8/1/24 at 11:28 am to BreakawayZou83
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Kansas City. It's all we've got.
As someone who has lived here for 13 years, I gotta say it's not as good as the locals brag about. Joe's is exceptional. Q39 is also VERY good. Gates and Bryants are good but not up to the hype. I like BB's Lawnside ok. And SLAP's isn't bad. Jack Stack is mid.
But give me Wright's in Springdale, AR or Central BBQ in Memphis WAY before anything KC has to offer.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 11:53 am to TheFourHorsemen
Decatur, AL
Posted on 8/1/24 at 12:09 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Answer: Lockhart, Texas (not terribly far from Austin)
Posted on 8/1/24 at 12:22 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Certainly be tough to find better.
100%. Lexington, SC has some of the best.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:28 pm to TheFourHorsemen
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:29 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
Someone is a fan of Big Bob’s.
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:31 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Kansas City and it isn't even really close. Sure there are great BBQ establishments all over the SEC but as a collective, nothing even comes close to the quality and diversity within KC.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:31 pm to BenHOGan1
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:40 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Best city is Memphis, which has fantastic food, great medical care, and sucks a dick otherwise. I have lived in or near Memphis a good chunk of my life and it is the most schizo city I've seen in my life.
If we are talking best campus town for BBQ... There are some strong contenders though, for once, I'm not going to put forward my beloved Fayetteville.
I'm not a fan of Texas Brisket or South Carolina spooge sauce so, while I am sure some folks love it, those wouldn't be my calls.
If we are talking best campus town for BBQ... There are some strong contenders though, for once, I'm not going to put forward my beloved Fayetteville.
I'm not a fan of Texas Brisket or South Carolina spooge sauce so, while I am sure some folks love it, those wouldn't be my calls.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:49 pm to TheFourHorsemen
CenTex BBQ is the only real BBQ the rest of you are just posers 
Posted on 8/1/24 at 1:52 pm to bleedsgarnet
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Went to jack stacks and was disappointed. Major bummer.
Jack Stack is fantastically mediocre. It’s bbq for the suburbs. It’s owned by an Italian guy. The hell do Italians knows about bbq?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 2:00 pm to InkStainedWretch
Blacks is the best (widely known) in Lockhart, started in 1932. It has opened other branches since then then (New Braunfels, Austin, San Marcos).
But there are a handful of other spots (I haven't been to all of them):
Lockhart BBQ places
But we are all describing different things as the same. Much of the deep South loves putting pigs in the ground, and though I'm not a big fan of pulled pork, the best I ever tried was in Alabama.
But when you slow cook and smoke brisket, and/or ribs until they are so tender the meat all but melts in your mouth, you realize that nothing else is ever gonna taste that good. I've had some damn good pork ribs even here in Houston, but when you do it right, pig just doesn't stand up to beef BBQ'd that proper way. I feel sorry that so many SEC brethren have apparently never had beef BBQ that way. I have a feeling we'd change your minds. But to each their own. We can all get fat in our favorite ways...
But there are a handful of other spots (I haven't been to all of them):
Lockhart BBQ places
But we are all describing different things as the same. Much of the deep South loves putting pigs in the ground, and though I'm not a big fan of pulled pork, the best I ever tried was in Alabama.
But when you slow cook and smoke brisket, and/or ribs until they are so tender the meat all but melts in your mouth, you realize that nothing else is ever gonna taste that good. I've had some damn good pork ribs even here in Houston, but when you do it right, pig just doesn't stand up to beef BBQ'd that proper way. I feel sorry that so many SEC brethren have apparently never had beef BBQ that way. I have a feeling we'd change your minds. But to each their own. We can all get fat in our favorite ways...
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 2:27 pm to UrTexHorn
Born and raised in GA, family from SC, went to school in Alabama...
Texas BBQ is my favorite, although I think a lot of the Texas-influenced BBQ we're getting in Atlanta is a good compromise in the sense that there is still strong influence on pork and southern side dishes that often exceed their TX counterparts.
IMO, the Georgia BBQ of my youth, while enjoyable, is leagues below what we have now in GA, and Alabama was always an upgraded version of the GA pulled pork scene (but still not amazing). I think that's mostly still true, although GA+TX influence means the GA offerings are now well above most in Alabama in my experience.
Texas BBQ is my favorite, although I think a lot of the Texas-influenced BBQ we're getting in Atlanta is a good compromise in the sense that there is still strong influence on pork and southern side dishes that often exceed their TX counterparts.
IMO, the Georgia BBQ of my youth, while enjoyable, is leagues below what we have now in GA, and Alabama was always an upgraded version of the GA pulled pork scene (but still not amazing). I think that's mostly still true, although GA+TX influence means the GA offerings are now well above most in Alabama in my experience.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 2:29 pm to jchamil
Their sauce does suck but their meat is on par with anyone else and they have the best sides.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 2:44 pm to TheFourHorsemen
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