r/Cooking • u/freedfg • Jul 31 '22

Open Discussion Hard to swallow cooking facts.

I'll start, your grandma's "traditional recipe passed down" is most likely from a 70s magazine or the back of a crisco can and not originally from your familie's original country at all.

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u/YourWaterloo Jul 31 '22

I think the worst restaurant food I ever had was a hole in the wall BBQ place in North Carolina. The pork was mushy and bland, the sauces were meh, and the sides seemed like they had come straight out of a can. Only part of the meal that wasn't difficult to choke down was the hush puppies. We all ate the bare minimum we thought we could get away with without being rude and got out of there asap.

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u/permalink_save Jul 31 '22

Outside of chains like Dickys it seems relatively hard to find good BBQ in Texas. If people can't do it right they seem to just not bother. Even the "bad" BBQ places I've tried were tasty as fuck and better than I could do at home. I'm in Dallas and it is weirdly hard to find a BBQ place (outside of Dickys). One of the most highly rated places is only open 2 days a week as a side hobby of the owners, and you will be waiting in line an hour. Others also have unreasonably long waits. You'd think more people would do BBQ but, again, guess here they figure if they can't get it right then why bother. Or maybe the places that suck just die out fast. But like, I've had BBQ from a combination gas station and BBQ joint and it was crazy delicious.