(05-20-2015 08:06 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:29 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  I am moving back to Georgia and covering the entire state for my company. I have a customer in Blue Ridge.... I know where I am taking them to eat when I visit them.

Too many App fans in Charlotte?

If you're looking for the best food/Q in North Carolina, you ain't gonna find it in Charlotte.

(05-20-2015 10:49 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 09:24 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:06 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:29 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  I am moving back to Georgia and covering the entire state for my company. I have a customer in Blue Ridge.... I know where I am taking them to eat when I visit them.

Too many App fans in Charlotte?

how did you know?

Take a sample from LinkedIn of the 746204 people that live in Charlotte that are on LinkedIn:

(37761) University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(11930) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(11016) Appalachian State University
(9605) North Carolina State University
(503) Georgia Southern University

haha. yeah.... there aren't a lot of us up here.

(05-20-2015 10:57 AM)DrGonzo Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:06 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:29 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  I am moving back to Georgia and covering the entire state for my company. I have a customer in Blue Ridge.... I know where I am taking them to eat when I visit them.

Too many App fans in Charlotte?

If you're looking for the best food/Q in North Carolina, you ain't gonna find it in Charlotte.

Midwood Smokehouse is pretty good.

People try to lump BBQ into one big category, and it's really not fair.

Comparing Texas BBQ to NC BBQ is an act of lunacy... Two different meats, two different styles of cooking, and two different sauces (probably sides too).

Now, best Brisket? Best Pork? Those are comparable.

Bottom line: Damn yankees trying to simplify 14 different art forms.

I can personally vouch for the 2 places listed from St. Louis...Pappy's and Bogart's are great...I'd add a 3rd St. Louis joint called Adam's Smokehouse...Bogart's and Adam's are pretty much the offspring of Pappy's...pretty much Memphis style ribs with a little twist...and the brisket at Pappy's is great...the smoked pastrami at Bogart's is great too...but all 3 have some of the best ribs you'll ever eat.

(05-20-2015 01:03 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  via TripAdvisor/CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/travel/tri...index.html

Here are the top 10 BBQ restaurants for 2015, according to TripAdvisor:
1. Joe's BBQ -- Blue Ridge, Georgia
2. Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que -- Kansas City, Kansas
3. Bogart's Smokehouse -- St. Louis
4. Reuben's Smokehouse -- Fort Myers, Florida
5. Andy Nelson's Southern Pit BBQ -- Cockeysville, Maryland
6. Captain's BBQ -- Palm Coast, Florida
7. HogsHead Café -- Richmond, Virginia
8. Buck's Smokehouse -- Destin, Florida
9. Franklin Barbecue -- Austin, Texas
10. Pappy's Smokehouse -- St. Louis

Here's the full list of the best states for expertly smoked meats:
1. Tennessee
2. Texas
3. Missouri
4. North Carolina
5. Georgia
6. Florida
7. South Carolina
8. California
9. Virginia
10. New York

Headed there this weekend...taking Garrett his car so he can get around the town/training camp.

(05-20-2015 11:02 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 10:57 AM)DrGonzo Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:06 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:29 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  I am moving back to Georgia and covering the entire state for my company. I have a customer in Blue Ridge.... I know where I am taking them to eat when I visit them.

Too many App fans in Charlotte?

If you're looking for the best food/Q in North Carolina, you ain't gonna find it in Charlotte.

Midwood Smokehouse is pretty good.

Their pulled pork is average at best if MWSH were in the Triangle or farther east. Although they do make the best cream corn I've ever had in a restaurant.

(05-20-2015 11:02 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 10:57 AM)DrGonzo Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:06 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:29 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  I am moving back to Georgia and covering the entire state for my company. I have a customer in Blue Ridge.... I know where I am taking them to eat when I visit them.

Too many App fans in Charlotte?

If you're looking for the best food/Q in North Carolina, you ain't gonna find it in Charlotte.

Midwood Smokehouse is pretty good.

Sauceman's won Best NC BBQ in the BBQ Pitmasters in 2013

(05-20-2015 09:01 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:17 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Can we all agree that "BBQ" is pig and not cow? Brisket can be delicious, but pork is king.

PIG? Pig ain't BBQ . . . . . BEEF IS BBQ!

Hell, y'all probably put beans in Chili too .... .

As my local barbecue joint's (A&J Tasty Pig, RIP) slogan said "If it ain't pork, it ain't barbecue".

(05-20-2015 08:27 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Heirloom Market BBQ is my favorite pork. Their sides are solid, but the pulled pork is the best I've ever had at a restaurant. They serve their sauce on the side like it should be. If you have really good Q you don't need much sauce at all. Just a little for dippin.

I love Heirloom and work down the street, but I don't know if I'd call it traditional barbecue. I just wish they'd find another building.

(05-20-2015 07:23 AM)APPrising Wrote:  I find it interesting that NC is listed as #4 for BBQ states, but no restaurants are represented in the top 10.

What about #1 Tennessee not having any any in the top ten?

Memphis is one of the BBQ capitals of the World and has the largest BBQ festival too. Plenty of good options from there.

I ate at a little place in Townsend, Tenn that had really good bbq. I didn't care much for the sauce but they cook it without sauce and let you choose. Also had smoked bbq in Wingate, NC that was really good. They also let you choose your sauce.

But being from Eastern NC, I prefer what I grew up with. I suppose most of us are that way.

(05-20-2015 09:01 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:17 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Can we all agree that "BBQ" is pig and not cow? Brisket can be delicious, but pork is king.

PIG? Pig ain't BBQ . . . . . BEEF IS BBQ!

Hell, y'all probably put beans in Chili too .... .

Sit down

(05-20-2015 04:23 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 09:01 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:17 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Can we all agree that "BBQ" is pig and not cow? Brisket can be delicious, but pork is king.

PIG? Pig ain't BBQ . . . . . BEEF IS BBQ!

Hell, y'all probably put beans in Chili too .... .

Sit down

Only if it's for Brisket!

(05-20-2015 10:41 AM)APPrising Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 09:01 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:17 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Can we all agree that "BBQ" is pig and not cow? Brisket can be delicious, but pork is king.

PIG? Pig ain't BBQ . . . . . BEEF IS BBQ!

Hell, y'all probably put beans in Chili too .... .

Technically, BBQ, aka barbeque, is the style of cooking meats. It can be pig, beef, turkey, and other meats.

Chili is technically a stew containing meat and chili peppers, often with tomatoes and beans.

Those are the facts.

As far as what's better, barbeque pork and chili with beans are what people with taste buds prefer.

Every true Southerner knows barbeque is a noun, not a verb....

One thig is for certain, the contraption one uses to achieve the end result of said BBQ is a grill, smoker or a pit. It breaks my heart for someone say they are BBQing when in reality they are simply grilling steaks, or even worse, hotdogs and hamburgers.

(05-20-2015 09:01 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:17 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  Can we all agree that "BBQ" is pig and not cow? Brisket can be delicious, but pork is king.

PIG? Pig ain't BBQ . . . . . BEEF IS BBQ!

Hell, y'all probably put beans in Chili too .... .

Tired ass brisket don't do it for me like Pork does.

Although Gatlin's in Houston does do a very nice brisket.

In Mobile, the Brick Pit (near USA) does good pork BBQ

People who get into the pork vs. beef BBQ generally don't know what they are talking about and generally have never run their own pit. It's meat. It's all good. And when I am up 14 hours smoking meat I don't care if it's a pork butt or brisket.

(05-20-2015 01:03 AM)sidslidkid Wrote:  via TripAdvisor/CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/travel/tri...index.html

Here are the top 10 BBQ restaurants for 2015, according to TripAdvisor:
1. Joe's BBQ -- Blue Ridge, Georgia
2. Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que -- Kansas City, Kansas
3. Bogart's Smokehouse -- St. Louis
4. Reuben's Smokehouse -- Fort Myers, Florida
5. Andy Nelson's Southern Pit BBQ -- Cockeysville, Maryland
6. Captain's BBQ -- Palm Coast, Florida
7. HogsHead Café -- Richmond, Virginia
8. Buck's Smokehouse -- Destin, Florida
9. Franklin Barbecue -- Austin, Texas
10. Pappy's Smokehouse -- St. Louis

Here's the full list of the best states for expertly smoked meats:
1. Tennessee
2. Texas
3. Missouri
4. North Carolina
5. Georgia
6. Florida
7. South Carolina
8. California
9. Virginia
10. New York

Sadly, I've only been to three of those top 10 places.

Texas BBQ destroys all others. And it isn't even close.

Southern Soul on St. Simons Island is the best...I don't need a list to tell me otherwise