Jack Stack Barbeque

[StanN]

The best BBQ town in the U.S.A is Kansas City. There are over 125 BBQ's there. Everyone there has a favorite. They range from elaborate dining rooms to take out joints. Oklahoma Joe's is in a former gas station.

My favorite is Fiorellas Jack Stack BBQ. I have been going there for over twenty years, almost every time I visit KC to see our children and grandchildren. The beans are to die for and all the special side dishes rank up there with the meat.

The BBQ sauce is not like the watery sauce used here in NC. It is a catsup based sauce. Beef brisket rather than pork is the standard meat. Jack stack has BBQ'd pork chops, ribs, rack of lamb and exceptional lamb ribs. One of us usually gets the rack of lamb, eight tiny chops perfectly trimmed.

I mention Jack Stack's here because you can get their stuff shipped in. See http://www.jackstackbbq.com/product.asp?pn=PKFC2081

Try it and see what real BBQ heaven is like.

Stan

[DarylB]

The best BBQ town in the U.S.A is Kansas City. There are over 125 BBQ's there. Everyone there has a favorite. They range from elaborate dining rooms to take out joints. Oklahoma Joe's is in a former gas station.

My favorite is Fiorellas Jack Stack BBQ.

Been to KC, and tried the BBQ there, and it's OK, as well as lots of BBQ in California, Texas, and Memphis BBQ. Sorry, but the only REAL BBQ is PORK BBQ, done chopped with a vinegar based sauce, and hush puppies and slaw on the side. There isn't likely to be a really bad BBQ, but North Carolina BBQ will ALWAYS be the BEST BBQ. And where can you find the best? WILBERS in Goldsboro.... and very politically connected as well! You've got to see it if you've never been there...every winning presidential campaign has had it's moment at Wilbers .....

[Cathy]

Stan,

Spoken like a true Northerner who doesn't understand "BBQ" from the Southern point of view.

"BBQ" in the South is a noun, not a verb or even an adjective. It isn't a "place" either.

In the South, "BBQ" refers to only one thing; slow roasted pork, (preferably the whole pig in a large outdoor cooker fired up with hickory coals) _shredded and chopped, basted and doused with the regional sauce.

Around this part of NC that means the spicey vinegar based sauce you find at most places or gatherings. Authentic local sauces here do not have a drop of ketchup or tomato in them. Family recipes are closely guarded secrets.
My brother-in law makes the best, in my opinion.

Some regions South and East of here add mustard powder (not the yellow stuff you put on your hot dog) to the vinegar sauce.

Only when you move farther West do you see tomato added.

Only in the North is 'BBQ' defined as "how it's cooked"; with 'what is cooked' of little importance. And the sauce is something that you buy from the grocery store; sweet and tomato-y, with hickory flavor added to cover up the charcoal lighter fluid taste.

I realize you live in Cary, but Cary IS still in The South. :wink:

Cathy

[bobo]

DarylB wrote:

North Carolina BBQ will ALWAYS be the BEST BBQ.

I can respect your OPINION Daryl, but I don't agree with it. I'll eat pork or beef, but please don't chop my pork up, dump vinegar mess on it and attempt to pass it off as BBQ! :-D

Honestly, I can't stand the stuff. Actually, I can't think of anything I like with vinegar in it. I guess it's all a matter of taste. :wink:

[StanN]

Here's a way to settle this debate. At this site

http://www.hotshoppe.com/productPage.asp?PID=1212&CategoryID=71&CategoryName=HOT+SAUCES%28POLITICAL%2FCELEBRITY%29

you can get Pat Robertson's sauce, Tricky Dick's (Cheyney), Kerry's flip-flop sauce and about 4000 others

stan