re: Rank SEC states by their BBQ (Missouri spinoff)

Louie Mueller is the place in Taylor

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#1 Texas #2 Tennessee #3 South Carolina #3 Missouri #4 Mississippi #5 Alabama #6 Georgia

realistically North Carolina needs to be on this list

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So you're saying that we should include N.C. State in any future SEC expansion based upon their Home state's BBQ?

I would be on board with that.

So then I guess by using that same logic, we're getting Oklahoma too...

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Memphis style BBQ is essentially Bama and Mississippi Delta BBQ. It's mostly pulled pork with sauce. Occasionally, you can also find a mustard based hot slaw that is extraordinary. Only difference for Bama is that they also have a BBQ chicken niche with a mayo-apple cider vinegar sauce that is pretty tasty.

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Not to be super not-picky, but Memphis is most notable for dry rub pork ribs, not pulled pork with sauce. Though, to be certain, there is a lot of pulled pork and a lot of sauce. Agreed on the mustard hot slaw. Not a slaw fan whatsoever, particularly on a shoulder sandwich, but I love slaw on, say, a sandwich from Payne's, which is probably the best sandwich in town in part because of their awesome mustard slaw. Memphis also does barbecue spaghetti, barbecue Cornish game hen, barbecue turkey ribs, barbecue anything, far more than just pulled pork. Obviously Memphis didn't invent white sauce, but you can get Alabama white at plenty of places, and Central BBQ, one of the more notable establishments, does a pretty decent mustard sauce, which is great on like their smoked chicken wings. It's a pretty different scene than the awesome barbecue shacks you run into in MS and AL (also, the barbecue in Oxford is unapologetically terrible and almost nonexistent these days) because it's so ingrained in the city's culture, and there are enough destination havens that pop up on national lists that most locals could rattle off a list of 10 different restaurants regarding 10 different qualifications (best ribs, best shoulder, best rib tips, etc.).

Kansas City is probably the only city similar to how highly Memphis reveres smoked pig, but KC barbecue is way too sweet and ketchupy for my tastes. I've enjoyed a lot about Texas barbecue (really liked Barbecue Station in San Antonio), but I'd take pork ribs and Memphis style over all of it. There's a reason the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest happens every May in Memphis Andy not in like Houston, KC, St. Louis, Charlotte, etc. It's kinda strange to me how little barbecue of note there is in north MS (particularly Oxford or nearby) and in Nashville. In general, I've always found it kinda weird that Memphis is as pig-obsessed as it is without other places in the state or region having at least a comparable affinity for the stuff

Smoked wings tho

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Just came in to say I had never had white bbq sauce until recently and it was delicious, goes perfect with chicken and turkey. +1 to Alabama there. The one I had was from Jim -n- Nicks.

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Smoke in Covingto, LA does a really good white sauce, actually better than their regular sauce.

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You will have crying babies from tennessee and kentucky saying how much better pork is than beef

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I was in Memphis a couple weeks ago and got blasted for ordering brisket instead of pulled pork.

I do love pork, but it's an appetizer, not the main course.

Mighty fine piece of meat

Dexter MO has a few good places,but is a trek from where you are. Dexter BBQ has a full meat menu & Dexter Queen has a really good pulled pork sammich. Hickory Log isn't that good imo. In Piedmont, there's a great butcher shop, Piedmont Processing. Larry there could probably give you good local suggestions.

As a recent resident of Tennessee, the pulled pork is pretty tasty. But TX brisket is the best.

Just went to Fargo's in Bryan, Texas. Amazing brisket. Do it. Just do it.

AND THEY DO HAVE COLLARD GREENS!