So Many Choices, What Should I Pick?

This seems to be a question I hear a lot from family and friends when we go out to eat, be it Barbeque or Sushi.  Everyone who knows me , knows I am passionate about both cuisines and will try and steer people to what I think they will like best.  Personally, my roots are a Texas style, where the wood and smoke flavor the meat, but sometimes I like a sauce, or the BBQ is so dry it requires sauce...lol, my Grandfather always told me, "Boy, sauce just covers up bad cookin",  and I gotta say that that is true a lot of times, but any good Que Master worth his salt has a couple sauce recipes up his/her sleeve. But I digress, back to my point...When you go out for BBQ and it is a new place you haven't tried before feel free to ask questions before you order...after all it's your money and you wanna spend it on food you are going to find appealing. Below are some of the questions I ask when I go to a place the first time.

1. What kind of Smoker do you use?(I prefer a wood fired Smoker)
2. What Kind of wood do you use to smoke with?
3. Is your "House" sauce sweet or spicy?
4. Is your sauce Vinegar based?(if yes, i will ask for my food to not be sauced as I am not a fan of Vinegar sauces)
5. Do your baked beans have onions in them?(I asked this because I have an Onion allergy, has nothing to do with BBQ...lol I am just going down my list of questions)
6. Do you have Sweet Tea?( if a BBQ joint doesn't have Sweet Tea, 99.9% of the time their BBQ Sucks! not sure what the correlation is, but it just is...lol)
7. Is your Mac N' Cheese homemade? (if not then neither is anything else, Mac N' Cheese is the most inexpensive BBQ side dish to make, if it isn't homemade then the owners are cheap and more then likely all their stuff comes from a can or frozen or pre-made and they get it from their Vendor)

I know you are thinking, "Holy Hell Deldon, could you be anymore of a BBQ Snob?...Yes, I could be...lol.  But I like what I like, and I have Trophies for my BBQ, so somewhere somebody likes what I like, right?  The Point I am trying to make is don't be scared to ask questions, and eat what you like....



In my next post I am going to go over the regions of the Unites States and what Kind of BBQ you can expect and where. Please by all means leave comments or email me at uncletykie@gmail.com with comments and suggestions. I am but one man trying to educate and entertain the masses all help is appreciated. Also if you would like to contribute as a guest writer please send me your topics and stories and I will post them.

Eat well my friends, 
Deldon