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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Barbecue A Heavenly--Or At Least Efficient--Picnic Idea

Posted by Carrington Fox on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:02 AM

After asking the Bites team for a prescription for picnicking, I answered my own question while waiting in the drive-through line at McDonald's on West End. There, in a battered and faded porcine mural shrouded by a light smoky haze, was my answer: Hog Heaven.

I veered out of the McDonald's queue and into a parking spot by Centennial Park, then scuttled into the screened dining room of the barbecue shack and placed my order at the window.

Twenty-seven dollars and 10 minutes later, I had a pound of pulled pork and a six-pack of buns, two bags of Zapp's, a half-dozen ribs, a half-pint of slaw and an array of thick sauces in vary degrees of heat. While it was perhaps not the most memorable 'cue--it traveled a while in Styrofoam, so I'm not holding it up to severe scrutiny--it was enough to nourish six people with plenty of leftovers. I laid my bounty on the family picnic blanket, as proud as a lioness who had felled a zebra to feed her young.

(While Hog Heaven met my needs of volume, price and speed, it failed to live up to the expectations of my kids, who, in the end, just wanted McDonald's--like everybody else at the picnic was eating.)

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Hope you got some of the white sauce—that's the thing that really sets HH apart, in my experience.

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Posted by mr. pink on May 21, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Oh H-E-double hockey sticks-YEAH! Man... I'm ashamed to say I've never eaten there, but I walk by and smell it ALL THE TIME. (You have to be careful, because a few feet in the wrong direction, or certain wind, and you're smelling dumpsters).
AND... A relative of a relative of mine (I'm from KY and that's how it works), is the guy who INVENTED their white sauce. Seriously. I met him, oddly enough, at a big hog roast my dad was having. Let me ask myself again, why I haven't eaten there?
PS. As I am working on my cooking skills and making things from scratch, I'm worried that whenever I have kids, I'll have the ones that only want to eat McD's chicken fingers and Kraft mac&cheese (the powdered variety).

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Posted by Erin on May 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM

McDonalds? Why???

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Posted by curious on May 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM

I'm ashamed. But I know most parents will back me up on this defense: The shortest distance between two points is through a drive-through.

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Posted by Carrington Fox on May 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM
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