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Skriven 2015-05-06 22:21:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 26690 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: bbq 610
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Hi Michael,

 RH> Why cover up good tasting meat with sauce? (G)

 ML> Exactly. Yesterday I had some excellent meat that
 ML> was slathered in this sugary KC sauce that a friend
 ML> characterized as "reminded me of hoisin" - I got a
 ML> pound and change without sauce to take out, and the
 ML> guy said, incredulously, "dry? How about sauce on the
 ML> side?" I refused the sauce on the side for two reasons:
 ML> one, KC sauce is terrible, and two, I'd have a heck of
 ML> a time getting it past airport security. So Shipps, you
 ML> are getting unsauced brisket, like it or lump it.

And we missed it by about 15 hours, give or take some odd minutes. But,
we had to get back home and settle down again. I'd have enjoyed it
without the sauce; it sounds like the sauce would have been too sweet
for my liking anyway.


 ML> Only 470 outlets! Which reminds me that there are
 ML> restaurants in some of the big barbecue cities -
 ML> Austin and Kansas City, for example, and they
 ML> price just one notch below the going rate. Austin
 RH> Got to keep up with the big boys.

 ML> I suppose. Or undercut the big boys by just enough to
 ML> carve out the "budget" niche.

Whichever way, Austin seems to be one of your favorite places to go for
bbq.

 ML> is a relatively expensive place to eat, and they
 ML> charge $13.50/lb for brisket (going rate 15, more
 ML> for the big name places); Kansas City is the worst
 ML> - they charge up to $15 (going rate is $16).
 RH> We didn't pay nearly that much.

 ML> I just found out that Jack Stack and Joe's charge 16- in
 ML> KC, and Q39 (an enterprise of Munchin' Hogs, which won
 ML> one of the various "world" championships a few years ago)
 ML> charges 17-. But Dickey's at 15- is competitive for price
 ML> to performance; out east, a lot of the Dickey'ses run
 ML> 10.99 or so, more manageable.

 ML> This used to be one of my favorite places to eat -
 ML> now, it's been renamed just "Joe's KC," the Okie
 ML> part of the operation withdrawing to Oklahoma and
 ML> D.C. We'll see what we shall see - going there on
 ML> a miles trip tomorrow.

 ML> Joe's KC, as it turns out, is every bit as good as
 ML> Oklahoma Joe's was, which makes sense, as the original
 ML> Oklahoma Joe trained a bunch of pit crew in the many
 ML> years he was in Kansas.

Good to hear it was still what you expected. We might get there at some
point in our travels.


 ML> Oklahoma Joe's KC BBQ Sauce
 RH> I think we stopped at one once, but just got something light, and not
 RH> bbq for some reason (forget why). But, I'm sure you'll let us know if
 RH> they've kept up with your standards or not.

 ML> Possible - there were 4 in the Kansas/Missouri area,
 ML> plus a couple in Oklahoma, with more to come, notably
 ML> two planned for the DC region.

IIRC, the one we stopped at was around Fredricksburg, VA where we
sometimes split off of I-95 to go up the western side of DC on 17 to
I-81.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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