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FINS · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:07 am Post subject:

Other than rudys and vans can't recommend any place but I always want to stop at is the place with the truck smoker off spid. Anyone been there? That's a sweet pit!

huntnetime · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:27 am Post subject:

I like the following in this order:

Silverado Smokehouse
Mac's
BBQ Man
Mr. G's
Miller's(NOT BILL MILLER'S!!!)
Howard's

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Mac's BBQ I will have to try Silverado.
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CopanoCruisin · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:52 pm Post subject:

Back to the mention of Howards. Those are definitely great vintage fishing photos. Norman Howard, Wayne McBee and several others out on Bob Hall. By the way, FYI, Norman doesn't own the BBQ place anymore. ...cC

gaspergou · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject:

dissapointing to hear that Mac's (Corpus Christi location, at least) passes as good bbq. went there twice. once on a recommendation, once just to see if the completely dismal meal i had wasn't a fluke. both times, months apart, were the absolute worse meals i've ever had.

huntnetime · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject:

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Bayslammer · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:13 am Post subject:

Millers is good, and the owners and managers are big on keeping a clean kitchen. The kids can get an ice cream cone after they eat at no charge as well. I recommend the poor boy or a sandwich there. Side order selection is huge and all good. German and regular potato salad are good, cole slaw and beans so /so.

Rudys has good brisket, but the chop beef and sausage are better at Millers. I dont care for the beans or sides in general at Rudys.
Bill Millers BBQ is cooked out of town and heated up. I always hear negative about Bill Millers, but it's not terrible. We get it catered at work sometimes and the BBQ is really not horrible. The sides are pretty good too.

Don't care for Mac's, Howards, the new Joe Cottons or Silverado...tried them all and I would rather just stick with Millers.
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gaspergou · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:17 am Post subject:

It was my experience, that Mac's was just all around bad.
When a bbq joint uses electric "smokers" it's very common that the
Brisket ends up tasting like bland roast beef. As was the case here. I think
Sauce shouldn't be a necessity, but rather an accent to enhance the meat.
Their sauce tasted like a watered down version of a coffee sauce that stuck in
Your craw when paired with the rubbery, unsmoked meat. I believe the sausage to be an inferior mix to begin with and inly suffered a crueler fate when improperly cooked by the Mac's staff. Reminded me of the boiled hotdogs they're fond of in Colorado. If you enjoy bland, cafeteria style cooking, check it out. Two meals here that i walked away from w/out finishing...and i'm a fat kid member of the clean plate club

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osopup · Finger Mullet Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 22

Best bbq hands down......Mcrib from McDs! with ice cold dr. pepper! ow!

SaltyMutt · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:27 am Post subject:

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I always like lean brisket or will get chicken if no lean brisket.

Miller's on Airline always has both the marbled and lean cuts. Plus, whenever we ask them to trim off ALL visible fat, they do it . . . courteously. Other places trim however they please and grumble when they have to throw away fat. Other for than health reasons, I do not like the squishy feel of any fat in my mouth.

Millers also does not use too much salt, which is another one of my preferences.

Mac's, Silverado and Rudy's are either fatty or salty or both. Hate the loud music blaring at Rudy's too.

BUT I will always go out of my way to get gas at Rudy's.

The rest of the gas stations water down their gas with alcohol. It's cheaper for gas refineries to dump in alcohol, which is nearly free for them, since it's made mostly from government partly-subsidized corn harvests and distilled from government tax-supported alcohol producers. Lots cheaper for gas stations that way. But they charge us more at the pump regardless.

My older 454 Chevy truck and boat motors like to be fed the pure gas without alcohol.[/b]

Bighead · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:38 am Post subject:

With family near Lockhart...I can't eat BBQ any place else. Everything else belongs in a garbage can.

Bighead
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

It's been a while since I have been to Mac's. I may have to reevaluate it. Laughing

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