2/2/2015 Van's Pig Stand, Moore, Oklahoma

I'm Joe, and I am not a professional critic, but I do have no problem telling you what I think right up front. If you cant handle that, you probably wont like me too much, and i really don't give a shit if you do or not. Anyway, I travel, and I work for the government (indirectly) so when I travel I get Per Diem.If you were a VP squadron member, you know ALLLL about per diem. If you dont know what per diem is, go ask somebody in a VP squadron. They will then laugh at you and tell you to get lost, especially if you ask an AW. A REAL AW, not one of those guys with the dumb letter attached...

What? They all have letters now? OK whatever. You will know if you get a real AW.

Anyways...on with getting fatter!

Monday, February 2, 2015

Pork. BBQ. Smoked meat. What more could you ask for? As soon as you walk in and smell this place, you automatically want everything on the menu. Unless you're a vegan, in which case you didn't come within 100 miles of this place. Just so you know, if you're a vegan, my food shits on your food.

Today (and for the next two weeks), I am travelling with Danny and Alex. Danny is Vietnamese and Alex is Chinese. Don't ask me, I didn't name them. I do know that when Alex drives, we nearly die at least 10 times on the way to wherever we go to eat. Truth. He's from Hawaii and cant handle speeds above 45 mph.

Danny got: 3 meat combo with ribs, chopped beef, and brisket
Alex got: pork ribs
I got: 4 meat combo with pork ribs, brisket, pulled pork, and hot sausage

There were sides too, but it was just greens and okra so we can leave those out. They were good. Pretty much everything was really, really good except the pulled pork and chopped beef. That stuff was just "good" instead of "really, really good". The pork ribs were great in a way where they didn't fall off the bone into a large pile of, well, pulled pork, but they didnt stick to the bone either. Brisket was not dry (bonus) and had a deep smoke ring.

Speaking of smoke, I asked a guy that worked there what wood they used, and I got 30 seconds of blank stare followed by, "...ummmm I dunno". We cut him some slack, because if he were actually a rocket scientist, he wouldn't be working at a BBQ place.

Consensus: 3.5 out of  5 stars (sorry, gig for the chopped/pulled meat), would repeat.