The ONE thing I’m really gonna miss when I leave NC

Wambli Ska

Barbecue!!!!

Damn these Southern boys can smoke stuff.  There’s a good barbecue joint just around every corner here in the mountain!!! Don’t know that AZ is known for theirs…

2 meat plate, pork burnt ends and to balance it out brisket burnt ends!

A sweet white bread roll smothered in melted butter to sop up the excess BBQ sauce and drippin’s.  Add smoky beans and slaw and your tongue will slap your face silly….  😎

Wambli Ska

And this place is smart enough to be playing The Doobie Brothers and CCR as background music.  If anyone walks in with a good bottle of Bourbon I might have to move in for a week or so before I go…

Big Al1

Doobies, my favorite band!! Great drummers!

Wambli Ska

Big Al1 said:

Doobies, my favorite band!! Great drummers!

Hell yeah!!!
Oh black water…. 😎

GrapeApe

When you move... PLEASE try to educate your new neighbors that firing up the grill to cook hamburgers and hot dogs is NOT "a barbeque"

Japhy

I have been a life long bbq fanatic. I have been disappointed with the AZ Q and have sampled it from the Mexican border to Utah. There is one Tennessee style in Phoenix that I would rate a B-  This is not KC or Central TX. The true measure of bbq skill and process, burnt ends are not sold here probably for good reason. 

Wambli Ska

Japhy said:

I have been a life long bbq fanatic. I have been disappointed with the AZ Q and have sampled it from the Mexican border to Utah. There is one Tennessee style in Phoenix that I would rate a B-  This is not KC or Central TX. The true measure of bbq skill and process, burnt ends are not sold here probably for good reason. 

We’ll both my son and I have good smokers so we’re going to have to do it the DIY route…

Wambli Ska

GrapeApe said:

When you move... PLEASE try to educate your new neighbors that firing up the grill to cook hamburgers and hot dogs is NOT "a barbeque"

Yeah, right? 🤣

I’ve always wondered how folks made that jump from grilling becoming BBQing…

JKP

That place is a chain with 550 locations! Southern boys, huh?!

https://www.dickeys.com/locations/arizona

Wambli Ska

JKP said:JKP said:

That place is a chain with 550 locations! Southern boys, huh?!

https://www.dickeys.com/locations/arizona

That place is a chain with 550 locations! Southern boys, huh?!

https://www.dickeys.com/locations/arizona

Company started in Texas and the guys running the smoker here are locals.  Can’t vouch for the other 499 locations.  Haven’t been to any of them.  But thanks for the list in AZ, I’ll give them a try when I get there. 👍

Japhy

I’ve been to multiple Dickeys in AZ. Let’s just say they wouldn’t make it a week in KC. 

So far the best I’ve had in AZ was a pulled pork in Wilcox. Was passing through so I didn’t have any opportunity to sample all of the fare. 

Most AZ folks just don’t get BBQ

GrapeApe

Dickey's BBQ = :vomit:

Wambli Ska

Don’t know what to say.  This one was very good.  In any case,  like I said, BBQ is around every corner in NC.

Japhy

In 1908 Arthur Bryant came down from the mountain with the tablets containing the wisdom to smoke brisket, pork shoulder, and back ribs done but with a bite and shared everything with KC and most of the civilized world. Unfortunately a few heathen outposts exist to this day

Wambli Ska

  

Linefinder

Wambli...there's one more thing you're going to miss here out West. Decent seafood. In Colorado the highest rated seafood place wouldn't survive opening day in a skunkhole in Louisiana. When Long John Silvers gets 3 1/2 stars and Red Lobster gets 4 1/2.....you know there's something fishy going on. Pardon the pun.

Mike

Jayhawker

Linefinder said:

Wambli...there's one more thing you're going to miss here out West. Decent seafood. In Colorado the highest rated seafood place wouldn't survive opening day in a skunkhole in Louisiana. When Long John Silvers gets 3 1/2 stars and Red Lobster gets 4 1/2.....you know there's something fishy going on. Pardon the pun.

Mike

Truth...ordering seafood in cattle country and expecting something really good is.....well....not sure how to say this...uhhh....just stupid.....
When we lived in the Southwest we ate a lot of Tex-Mex...When we lived in Florida..it was seafood....in Kansas we ate a lot of top shelf beef.....
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Wambli Ska

Linefinder said:

Wambli...there's one more thing you're going to miss here out West. Decent seafood. In Colorado the highest rated seafood place wouldn't survive opening day in a skunkhole in Louisiana. When Long John Silvers gets 3 1/2 stars and Red Lobster gets 4 1/2.....you know there's something fishy going on. Pardon the pun.

Mike

Jayhawker said:

Linefinder said:

Wambli...there's one more thing you're going to miss here out West. Decent seafood. In Colorado the highest rated seafood place wouldn't survive opening day in a skunkhole in Louisiana. When Long John Silvers gets 3 1/2 stars and Red Lobster gets 4 1/2.....you know there's something fishy going on. Pardon the pun.

Mike

Truth...ordering seafood in cattle country and expecting something really good is.....well....not sure how to say this...uhhh....just stupid.....
When we lived in the Southwest we ate a lot of Tex-Mex...When we lived in Florida..it was seafood....in Kansas we ate a lot of top shelf beef.....
.

That’s going to suck for my wife mostly.  I love seafood but being an island boy I’m so freaking picky that I usually won’t bother ordering in most restaurants.  I will miss dearly having a good “fish store” nearby.  

I remember few years ago I was on a business trip to Idaho and went with a bunch of locals to a great restaurant.  I saw they had Marlin (really unusual to find in any restaurant) on the menu so I ordered it.  The locals almost in unison screamed NOOOOOO at the waiter.  Then they asked me if I’d seen any ocean nearby.  I got their point swiftly 🤣🤣🤣

I AM looking forward to eating myself into a great Mexican food coma…

Japhy

A little more bbq history:
Arthur Bryant is the originator of burnt ends, the crispy shards of meat cut from the point end of a smoked brisket that have become Kansas City’s ultimate claim to fame. Usually thrown away as scraps, Bryant would instead collect them on a tray and give them as a snack to waiting customers. They’re one of the many reasons writer Calvin Trillin pronounced Arthur Bryant’s as the “single best restaurant in the world” in 1972.

Gila

Japhy said:

I’ve been to multiple Dickeys in AZ. Let’s just say they wouldn’t make it a week in KC. 

So far the best I’ve had in AZ was a pulled pork in Wilcox. Was passing through so I didn’t have any opportunity to sample all of the fare. 

Most AZ folks just don’t get BBQ

Do you know any cowboys? You don't get good barbecue in a restaurant in Arizona as a rule, but it can be had around ranches and such. I grew up in Willcox (BWT, it's spelled with two L's), and I figure one or two cowboys can be found there...