No mention of crazy little women
Tyler Cowen was asking about the best BBQ in Kansas City, and got all sorts of answers, one of which I felt like reprinting here simply because it stays on topic while simultaneously circling ’round it, a skill I used to think I possessed.
The person being quoted here is Peter Russell, and he says:
Bryant’s in the old black section, for the flavah of gritty segregated 1920′s Charlie Parker downtown (the strict color line was at 21st Street) then to the Plaza (worlds first shopping mall) for old money KC ethos, and Winstead burgers, then to Mission Hills for the ‘Greenwich Connecticut on steroids’ fantasy tour (KC has the coolest big homes and lawns on the planet) and then out to 95th and Metcalf to 1. throw up out the car window so you can 2. get the other half of the Winstead’s menu you didn’t get at the Plaza, and check out the other bergers, the haute bergers, driving by in their noveau Benzes. Check out that prairie out there, too, mr. economist — it rolls, blank and endless, all the way down to Dallas. Which is why everybody has a half acre lawn in Johnson County. There is plenteee of land.
I was under the impression that Winstead’s was at 103rd and Metcalf, but otherwise, this strikes me as spot-on. (And I like Gates, myself.)
unimpressed »
25 January 2009 · 9:39 am
I like both Bryant’s and Gates. It’s kind of a toss-up as to which I like best–I think it would be the one I’m eating. :)
McGehee »
25 January 2009 · 9:42 am
I have finally come to terms with the fact that I did not know a damn thing about good barbecue until I came to the South. But I still cling to my WWestern heritage and insist that beef is the meat God intended to be prepared that way.
Sure, you have to dig a bigger pit to put the cow in, but…
McGehee »
25 January 2009 · 9:43 am
(Behold, I have invented a new letter: the”quadruple-U”)
unimpressed »
25 January 2009 · 10:55 am
McGeehee: I like the combo platter(s) because I don’t really have a strong bias toward any of them.
McGehee »
25 January 2009 · 12:53 pm
One of the places available to me here in metro Atlanta, Shane’s Rib Shack, doesn’t offer beef in the plate size I could eat in one sitting, so I order chicken there.
I guess I just don’t go for food cooked in an average-sized pit.
unimpressed »
26 January 2009 · 3:27 pm
Heh. I don’t go for average-sized servings. No matter where I go, a single serving simply isn’t enough.