GMA BBQ Reviews

Also have to add this:

Carbon Footprint of BBQ

Grilling actually, but can government intrusion into smoking meat be far behind?

My smoker. Just one more thing they'll have to pry from my cold dead fingers.

Well,I never met a cook,or anybody that knows one, that doesn't wind up at Angelo's there in Cowtown,to have that ice cold brew and see the scruffy old bear at the door.

If you could shove your way thru all the yuppies in the parking lot,Railhead isn't even bad bbq.


As to Tuscaloosa BBQ,he is right that Archibalds,isn't near as poor as the real famous joint where Bear Bryant hung out.

Watching them direct grill those untrimmed slabs of spares is entertaining.

Either has a fair pork sandwich,if you get the sauce on the side.

I have to agree that Dinosaur is an entertaining joint,that is fun to visit.

I was shocked when I attended some fine "barbecues" in Iowa,to find out they served doublecut porkchops,corn on the cob and baked potatoes.

Not to say,there aren't some folks that cook fine Q,there.

Mike ,from Hawgeyes BBQ in Iowa,cooks some good Q,and is the primary vendor of bbq products to cooks around the country.

Steve and Cheryl, that operate Woody's are friends of some of the Iowa folk on the bbq forum,so they may get some votes-outside the friends, at retail, that were watching ABC.

Our own drbbq does attend the Iowa State Fair,and he and some of the folks there have produced the world's largest pork burger .



Well,just my $0.02 and we know what that's worth.

Todd,you didn't tell us you moved a branch ,west to N Alabama.

Todd's BBQ & Catering
Huntsville: 3158 U.S. 72 East
859-0221
jamesellis4818@comcast.net: "Great yummy chicken, pork and white sauce!"

Editor's note: Todd's BBQ is temporarily closed while the restaurant moves to its new location on South Memorial Parkway.


North Alabama BBQ

BTW,the Big Bob Gibson's is in Decatur,and the home pit of Chris Lilly,that Smokin' is workin' on the review.

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Originally posted by Tom:
Todd,you didn't tell us you moved a branch ,west to N Alabama.

Todd's BBQ & Catering
Huntsville: 3158 U.S. 72 East
859-0221
jamesellis4818@comcast.net: "Great yummy chicken, pork and white sauce!"

Editor's note: Todd's BBQ is temporarily closed while the restaurant moves to its new location on South Memorial Parkway.


North Alabama BBQ

BTW,the Big Bob Gibson's is in Decatur,and the home pit of Chris Lilly,that Smokin' is workin' on the rewiew.

Oh yeah! I'm opening stores all across America. New York city and Boston are next. When I have everyone here worshiping at the feet of properly cooked swine, I'm going global, with my first target market being the middle east. I'm thinking the pork explosion from another thread will be just what they need.

I just looked at the poll and apparently my Alabama store sucks. Oh well, just a slight hiccup in my quest for world domination.

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I know barbecue. My parents were from the South. When I was growing up in Los Angeles, my mother often made barbecued spare ribs for dinner.

Yeah, GREAT credentials. Let's see, my PARENTS grew up in the south and so I'm a bbq judge....

That's how the article starts.

Yeah, real serious.

But I did watch the video and the fact that ALL the judges dunked the ribs in the sauce confirms what I've been saying for years.

The "public" judges restaurants on the sauce.

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Originally posted by Todd G.:
Also have to add this:

Carbon Footprint of BBQ

Grilling actually, but can government intrusion into smoking meat be far behind?

My smoker. Just one more thing they'll have to pry from my cold dead fingers.

They should ban forest fires.

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Originally posted by SmokinOkie:

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I know barbecue. My parents were from the South. When I was growing up in Los Angeles, my mother often made barbecued spare ribs for dinner.

Yeah, GREAT credentials. Let's see, my PARENTS grew up in the south and so I'm a bbq judge....

That's how the article starts.

Yeah, real serious.

But I did watch the video and the fact that ALL the judges dunked the ribs in the sauce confirms what I've been saying for years.

The "public" judges restaurants on the sauce.

But isn't it the 'public' that restaurants have to cater to? I know we're here for good food, but if you are serving the 'public' don't you have to give them what they want? Even if that's a 10 gallon bottle of ketchup? Or the industrial sized bottle of soy sauce?

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But isn't it the 'public' that restaurants have to cater to? I know we're here for good food, but if you are serving the 'public' don't you have to give them what they want? Even if that's a 10 gallon bottle of ketchup? Or the industrial sized bottle of soy sauce?

No, we're not serving the public, this forum is about Q and learning how to turn out better, NOT server ketchup to the public.

Key point you made was "cater" to the public. If the joint does good Q and the public likes it, that's fine, but that doesn't means it's good Q.

call it what it is, it's a sauce contest, not a Q contest.

Just because the public wants it that way, doesn't mean it's GOOD Q, it means they're selling out to the publics' need for sauce covered meat (can you say McRib). Same public thinks Taco Bell is mexican or PF Chang's is chinese of TGI Friday's boiled ribs are great. Hey more power to them for making money,

Doesn't change my opinion of what good Q is.

There are a few pros here we can discuss it in the pros forum, but it's a rhetorical question anyway.

Me, I cook the way I do and I educate the public one serving at a time. If you eat my Q you don't ask for sauce.

Never said it was good Q did I? Sorry, I thought the post was obvious, evidently not. I said we are here for better food, meaning this forum, trying to learn to make better Q. But if you are in the business of selling food to the public and want to make a living, then you HAVE to cater to them. You would prolly like the show Chef. Check it out. I love it.

As for the post, I was referring to the judging of the 4 finalists, yes it clearly was about sauce. But these are people in the service industry, you have to give the people what they want. I'm an ER nurse, also a service industry, I would love to tell some people what I think, but I can't. You have to give the people what they want, or you go hungry.