re: The Shed Barbecue and Blues Joint opening a location in Louisiana

o clarify:

1. The restaurant in Mobile was a franchisee
2. The Oasis didn't own the restaurant in 2019. Sammy's Grill did.
3. The Shed catered a Superbowl party this year at The Oasis and the BBQ was outstanding. Every restaurant has a bad day.
4. Volleyball will continue
5. Most people on these TD sites have no idea of the facts yet speak as they do.

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The only great bbq I have had is at peoples homes

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Sucks for you

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Most of those people know how to throw down in the kitchen and are really into food, so understandably, they're going to detect poor quality more than your average person who doesn't know anything about food/cooking.

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Frankly trusting SELA baws on BBQ is like trusting baws from Memphis, St Louis, and the Carolinas on gumbo and jambalaya and boudin.

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Just mad that the food board doesn’t love his date night choices of Red Lobster and Olive Garden.

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Sonny you give me too much credit. I like Golden Corral and CiCi's Pizza.

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Baton Rouge. Where out of town BBQ restaurants go to die.

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I really liked the BR Dreamland but I think I was the only one

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I disagree. I trust the F&D board immensely, and they've never let me down when it comes to recommendations.

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Definitely a good board. Recommendations are b+.

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A decent segment of our population defines pulled pork as placing it into a crockpot and stirring in a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's.

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Also true, and Ray's is garbage, like brown ketchup.

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First of ok then bbq is good, and the ribs are excellent. (I don’t love the sandwiches but I am odd man on that) all the rest of my family does , but again the ribs are really good, and I am as much of an expert on BBQ as any foodie assholes who would promptly be beaten to death at any respectable BBQ event. But they have won awards and all that bullshite too at BBQ events

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What is this verbal diarrhea?

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Ray's is garbage, like brown ketchup.

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Ray's has it's place. Sweet Baby Ray's is great for dipping french fries and for putting on burgers. I don't use it for smoking BBQ.

I like the shed but it doesn’t have shite on Texas BBQ.

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Just mad that the food board doesn’t love his date night choices of Red Lobster and Olive Garden

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LINK

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Of all the tributes to Anthony Bourdain, the chef, author and TV presenter who was found dead on Friday at the age of 61, one of the most heartfelt may have come from Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Hagerty is a food columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. In 2012, when she was 85, she wrote positively about a new Olive Garden in the city, which she called “the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks”.

“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” Hagerty wrote. “The portion was generous. My server was ready with Parmesan cheese.”

For her praise of the widely derided chain, Hagerty was subjected to widespread online mockery. Bourdain, one of the most famous faces in food journalism in the world, quickly came to her defence.

“Marilyn Hagerty’s years of reviews [are] a history of dining in the America too few of us from the coasts have seen,” he tweeted. “We need to see.” He went on to denounce the “snarkologists (myself included)”.

Hagerty’s newfound fame brought her to New York, where she reviewed a street hot dog cart for the New York Times. She met Bourdain and he ended up editing and writing the foreword to a book of her collected reviews.

“She is never mean,” he wrote, “even when circumstances would clearly excuse a sharp elbow, a cruel remark. In fact, watching Marilyn struggle to find something nice to say about a place she clearly loathes is part of the fun. She is, unfailingly, a good neighbour and good citizen first – and entertainer second.”

In an interview with BuzzFeed News on Friday, Hagerty remembered how Bourdain “spoke up for me at a time when people all over the country were making great fun of the column I write”.

“To have a man of his stature rise up and befriend me,” she said, “it meant a lot to me.”

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