Wendys...

[JoshT]

My wife hates it because she only likes texas bbq sauce, the red sweet type. I like them all though, vinegar pork bbq, the white sauce bbq, the yellow sauce bbq, red sauce bbq, smoked bbq, chicken, beef, pork, all of it with a big ol cup of sweet tea, some cole slaw, and corn or potatoes.

I'm with you on that. Not to say that I think EVERY BBQ sauce I've is good, but I like most types. My personal preference is vinegar based, with the stuff made by the first bbq joint in space at the top of the list. Well at least the place that made the first BBQ served in space, Fincher's Bar-B-Q based out of Macon, GA. Unfortunately the place has gone down hill since I was a kid, but the pulled pork and sauce is still top notch IMO.

I mistly try to avoid sweet type BBQ sauces since I got diagnosed with the diabetus. Did find that Ray's makes a couple of zero sugar versions that are pretty danged good for a store bought sauce.

what about the Brunswick stew?

Are we talking real Brunswick Stew, or that soup stuff that some places try to pass off as it?

In the past 30 years, the best I've had is grandma's home made stew. She learned to make it from her mother because her parents liked it, and kept making it because everyone else in the family does too. Problem is she doesn't like it, probably largely because of the amount of work involved. She's 90 or about to turn it, so she decided no more several years back. Mom got the recepie, but also feels like it's just too much involved.

Best I've had from a restraunt is same BBQ joint I mentioned above. Still not close to the same.

A few years mom and dad went to a gathering, probably a meet & greet for the hunting club we were in, and one of the people brought Brunswick Stew. Dad is definitely a "snob" when it comes to the stuff, as picky as I am if not more so. Well he loved it, closest thing to his mom's stew that he'd ever tasted. When I finally had a chance to try some, he wasn't wrong. The shocker is that the stuff is "mass produced" by a restraunt/instution supply business out of Carrolton, GA called Walker Meats. The next challenge was finding a place that sold it locally, which we eventually did. Turns out that a small chain grocery that I regularly frequented keeps the stuff on the shelf, we just never knew to look for it. Still not quite grandma's stew, but the ease of buying it at the grocery makes up for the small difference.

 

[Rick W]

I definitely have a favorite pizza place in New York, one in New Jersey, and two different ones down here. the first New York is best, but the other three are pretty good

Ditto with the barbecue. I know two places in Atlanta, one place in South Carolina, one in Alabama and a couple in Dallas, Texas. All great all about the same quality, flavors are a little different.

Now, having said that, that I have my favorites, the reality is I never met a pizza I didn’t like and I never met barbecue. I didn’t like which you can probably tell if you’ve met me.

 

[JoshT]

I definitely cannot make the same claim about Pizza. If you say you're buying me pizza, and you put Little Caesars in front of me.... we might be fighting. Best case, you can keep it and I'll go hungry or go find something else.

There's a few others that I'm not crazy about, but not terrible. I'll eat a slice to be polite, then use the diabetes as a convenient excuse to stop there. If it's LC though, I'm straight up turning around and walking out the door. BTDT at more than one work "employee appreciation" lunch.

 

[superj]

pizza is also on my list of favorites. and we have a great place here in town that is family owned form the 70s, if i remember right.

Home - B&J's Pizza

we also used to have a place called new york style pizza and the guy moved here from somewhere in new york, they were even better than B&Js but some hard times with covid and all the different things going on messed them up and he and his wife had to sell the place off, i think. i don't even know if they are still open because every time i go by, the lights are off. we used to order 10 or 12 large pizzas from here for work because they were so good.

New York Style Pizza - Home

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I’ll give most pizza a try. There’s a lot of edible to mediocre pizza shops out there and few good ones. I can’t eat anything with the normal red pizza sauce from Papa Johns. Instant agonizing heartburn. Not sure what they did to their sauce, but it changed years ago and I can’t eat it at all, not even a slice. If someone insists on ordering from them, I either don’t eat or request that they order something with garlic or ranch base for me.

 

[Snoranger]

If you guys have ever been to Disney world, you’d know what bad pizza is. It’s so bad that they don’t even call it pizza, they call it flatbread.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

If you guys have ever been to Disney world, you’d know what bad pizza is. It’s so bad that they don’t even call it pizza, they call it flatbread.

I don’t support the current perversion of Walt Disney’s dream…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Also, done right, flatbread pizza can be amazing. Where Lisa used to work they did flatbread pizzas. She made me one with a white garlic sauce, bacon, pepperoni, onion and I forget what else. I had to defend it because everyone was trying to help me eat it, lol

 

[superj]

mmmm, bbq chicken pizza

 

[Curious Hound]

mmmm, bbq chicken pizza

Ugh. I can either eat barbecue chicken or pizza. But the two shall not be mixed.

 

[superj]

i thought that till i tried it. and i put off trying it for many years. now, i like the bbq pizza and the buffalo chicken wing pizza.

i don't like that fettuccini pizza though, with the white sauce.

 

[JoshT]

I assume it is still open, but we used to have a buffet style pizza place here that did oddball pizzas like that. Seems to remember some weird combinations being decent. Unfortunately the trade off is that the classic pizzas were only decent too. If everyone can agree on a pizza or two, there were better options, but if everyone wanted something different or novelty, it was hard to beat.

 

[Rick W]

All that chicken, barbecue, pineapple, baby finger, etc. pizza is just blasphemy.

I think one of the reasons pizza in New York is so good, and it’s hard to duplicate in other places, is the sheer volume. New York makes so much, so many, that all the subs who make the mozzarella, and the dough, and the sauce, etc. are the best and they last because of the volume. I don’t think you could get mozzarella like that anywhere else in the country…

 

[Roert42]

All that chicken, barbecue, pineapple, baby finger, etc. pizza is just blasphemy.

I think one of the reasons pizza in New York is so good, and it’s hard to duplicate in other places, is the sheer volume. New York makes so much, so many, that all the subs who make the mozzarella, and the dough, and the sauce, etc. are the best and they last because of the volume. I don’t think you could get mozzarella like that anywhere else in the country…

There is a pizza restaurant in the Allentown rest stop on the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The sign said “New York’s Favorite Pizza”.

Honestly sets a pretty low standard for New York Pizza. Frankly, it speaks pretty poorly of NY pizza if most NewYorkers prefer to drive to a gas station in Allentown.

 

[Rick W]

There is a pizza restaurant in the Allentown rest stop on the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The sign said “New York’s Favorite Pizza”.

Honestly sets a pretty low standard for New York Pizza. Frankly, it speaks pretty poorly of NY pizza if most NewYorkers prefer to drive to a gas station in Allentown.

If it was a brand, X Wendy’s, or McDonald’s, they’d hire the lawyers to enforce the franchise, sue them or whatever.

A lot of the pizza in New York runs a slightly different system, the shops are all very independent, but they have friends who look out for them. If that turnpike location ever pisses them off, the guys in the big coats of the big hats. I gotta come down and set them straight….