Posted on 03/17/2014 6:11:03 PM PDT by kingattax
From classic pulled pork in North Carolina to traditional Texas brisket to Kentucky mutton, here are twenty-one of the best barbecue sandwiches you’ll ever eat.
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“We ate at 12 Bones in Asheville last summer...”
Thanks for the heads up. We are planning to go to Charleston later this year, and thought we might stop at 12 Bones on our way home...guess we will find another for our barbeque stop.
So, FReepers, a serious question...who has absolutely the best barbeque in North Caroline?
That pic is so mouthwatering...want some of each...and where might that be...name and location please!
Here’s a vote for Alday’s pulled pork in Sarasota, FL. Their baked beans are “the top of the world, Ma!”
/sarc
Concur. The Texas BarBQ Brisket seems to outshine the rest.
FWIW, I also always discern the quality of BarBQ by the Brisket.
You have quite a way with words.
Ever thought about doing restaurant reviews? :)
We have Smokin’ Pig here in Valdosta, GA. It is very good!
Despite the fact that I have grown to despise Micky Ds, I do like the McRib. I think it is the only thing they make now which I like.
I've only been there twice since 2005, both times I thought it wasn't all that good and way overpriced for lunch. Since I work just down the street in Corporate Woods, maybe I'll give it another shot.
I saw that the Smokestack at 89th & Wornall has been renamed to "The Stack," but I don't know if it's the same family (just broken away) or if it's new ownership. They've got a pretty good sandwich there (or they did): The Smokestack. Beef & pork on a hoagie with lettuce & tomato. It really works!
Mark
The best meal I ever had was in Dothan, or at least near Dothan. It was a place called “Redmon’s Seafood Camp” My wife and I ate there and the owner took our six month old baby and carried her around the entire meal.
Mine was 12 shrimp and they were more than I could eat tho I finally maanged to eat they all. They were each about the size of a chicken drumstick. They also had there own recipe for tartar sauce. I could taste black pepper in it but was never able to duplicate it tho I tried many times. The whole meal was just great.
That would be a big ol YEP.
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in Wichita Falls...brisket is king and offered at a zillion stops.....W Falls is like 120 k population and has over 24 bbq places
Giving a nod to my long ago childhood and a state that I don’t see represented...
I have lived in Texas 99 per cent of my life (and therefore think Tx bbq is the best) but as a kid spent summers with relatives in Southern Illinois. We didn’t eat out but maybe twice in the summer, but when we did, after church we would go across the railroad tracks and get bbq. Pork bbq with a vinegar/tabasco base sauce. Yummy! I’m sure that place is long gone since the town dried up when the coal mines closed...from what I have read. But it does deserve an honorable mention.
I’ve replicated the sauce and when pork roast is on sale veer off my normal beef bbq.
Pulled pork with an awesome vinegar based sauce, onions, augratin potatoes and jalepenos in a flour tortilla. I add in cole slaw.
Danny's BBQ in the Raleigh area- the best. His sauce is like crack.
My son ships me a box of 25 links every Xmas.
There’s that “Wolf River” something or other shack past Collierville and Moscow that has a good sandwich. For local, I like Interstate on 3rd St.
What interstates are you traveling? Every town has a decent barbecue joint or two. Most are humble little out of the way places that have been there forever, nothing fancy at all. You'd have to be in a city of some size to encounter a really nice place focusing on barbecue.
Locally, I'm fond of BBQ Joe on Fairfax at South Main in High Point. They're agnostics or heretics, depending upon your allegiance, lol. They serve all kinds. The best in my opinion would be “The Joe,” a half pound of pulled, smoked pork on Texas Toast with eastern style pepper vinegar sauce and coleslaw.
The Pit is a big deal down in Raleigh and gets a fair amount of praise, it's a little more on the upscale side.
If you're passing through in the morning, try Country Barbecue, their huge cat's paw biscuits with pork tenderloin or country ham are a thing of beauty.
Just avoid the chains, and avoid having barbecue at a place that does not specialize in it. Asheville and environs would be the smokier, sweeter almost TN style, get down off Black Mountain and you're into Western style territory, a tomatoey sauce with spicy red slaw. That runs all the way to just east of Greensboro and Charlotte, then you start hitting hybrid eastern-western and pure Eastern style with pepper vinegar sauce.
You'll hit pockets with their own spin, German settled areas north and west of Charlotte have a different sauce but still pork. They also serve fried liver mush, it has cornmeal in it, never had the nerve to try it. Up north near the VA border you'll run into Short Sugar's which has a very rich dark brown sauce that is hard to describe but I'm fond of it, they also have several unique cuts of pork, coarse chopped, fine chopped, pulled, etc.
Just make sure the parking lot’s full, you'll be OK.
I used to love “Central Texas BBQ” in Castroville, CA when I was stationed at Ft. Ord. Former SF guy and his Korean wife ran it. It was great!
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