We grew up in Arkansas, close to Hot Springs, and of all the hundreds of times I must have driven by �McClard�s BBQ� in Hot Springs, we ate there for the first time during a trip down last week. What a disappointment.
McClard�s has been there for over 70 years; presidents back to Truman and probably Roosevelt have eaten there. The restaurant has been on the front pages of national magazines and papers, but we were not impressed.
To start with, the beans tasted more like tamales than baked beans. The slaw was ok but nothing special, but it was the �chopped� pork that amazed us. Not just chopped in chunks, but run through a sausage grinder so that the texture was that of finely ground ground beef. Where it not for their pretty good sauce it would have been inedible.
I have never in my life seen �chopped� pork ground that fine�.sure makes my CS �pulled� version taste and look good!
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