This topic has been pretty much left to cool on the back burner for some time. With summer approaching and the long wait until football camp opens I thought I'd let everyone stew over this article. The author makes some good points.

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/ ... joint.html

If the experts are talking about Cole slaw I've read too much.

Well I had a brown chopped sandwich from the Monk for lunch today. It doesn't get any better than that.

eggers76 wrote:Well I had a brown chopped sandwich from the Monk for lunch today. It doesn't get any better than that.

The "Monk" is as good as it gets. Always a big crowd there.

Ridgewood BBQ - Elizabethton HWY, Bluff City, TN. Best BBQ in the world.

A lot of people who travel up and down 321 are pretty familiar with Hannah's in Lenoir but there is a better and lesser known joint less than 2 miles away called Hog Wild BBQ. Up until just recently they were only a drive thru but they've moved to a full sit down restaurant.

JD's Smokehouse is great too, it's about 20 minutes south of L.A. down Connelly Springs Rd in Rutherford College.

Rarely have I had bad BBQ!

We actually have a great little place in Rock Hill called the Dixie Pig. Appman and I have sampled their goods and it's darn good.

eggers76 wrote:Well I had a brown chopped sandwich from the Monk for lunch today. It doesn't get any better than that.

OH yes it does, a lean brown course chopped from the Monk!

Y'all name all these 2nd place joints 'cause you have never been to Alston Bridges in Shelby.

Rekdiver wrote:Rarely have I had bad BBQ!

BBQ is like sex, there's good and better.

"BBQ is like sex"....it's like sex but better. Here's why...you think about Q all the time...you'll try different styles and the flavor of your choosing. You get anxious just before you eat Q because you worry that someone might get there earlier before you and eat your Q! Most don't share their Q. You make loud guttural sounds when enjoying your Q. When you think you've had enough, you still take one more bite like it's the last Q you'll ever have. As soon as you leave and walk out your favorite Q's door, you're already thinking about when you can come back again. Lastly, as you are about to leave after finishing...YOUR Q DOESNT ASK YOU IF YOU TOOK OUT THE TRASH!!!!!! And that...my dear friends, is why Q is better than sex!

best observation I've read in a long time!

Anywhere that has WHOLE HOG over WOOD!

Sorry - but what/where is The Monk?

WVAPPeer wrote:Sorry - but what/where is The Monk?

The Monk is in Lexington, NC. The barbeque capital of the world.

Thanks - all I ever hear about is the place Lexington BBQ - I have always been a big fan of Woodlands, how does it compare?

Lexington BBQ = "then monk"

That and woodlands totally different styles. Being from lexington originally, there is no comparrison between the 2 styles.
Personally I like the BBQ center a little better than the monk. Speedy's and Backcountry are also really good

I grew up less than half a mile from the Monk (Lexington BBQ). When the wind was just right...

My very first public job was as a curb boy at the BBQ Center in Lexington at age 15.