The sun dawned orange, especially with the help of Instagram. I was in the greater Roanoke, VA area for a terribly important and completely unproductive business meeting. Actually I had been there the night before too, and I made the team go out for barbecue. That’s what I do.
But BBQ in Roanoke doesn’t look very good. So I made everyone drive half an hour south-west, to the in-aptly named Due South BBQ. They got the nod for all their mentions of ‘pit cooking’, lack of extraneous food options (barbecue places shouldn’t have salads), and pervasive pig theme.
Sumbitches that they are though, they didn’t have half the menu that night, and they strongly recommended that we all get the all-you-can-eat pulled pork special. You start with a sandwich and two sides, then when you eat those down you can get another sandwich and one more side. And another. The slaw and fried okra were nice, the meat was soft and juicy even without sauce, and the variety of sauces were all pretty good.
The ribs were totally good though. They were soft inside, crusty outside (or barky, if you prefer), the pork was tasty, and the slathered sauce wasn’t excessive. I wish they had more options on the menu that night so we could have run the gamut like I like doing at every other barbeque place.
Sometimes it feels the gamut done ran me.
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Man, I almost forgot – they had two guys playing guitar that were totally good. One guy was playing sort of 20’s-30’s standards, Tin Pan Alley stuff with medium advanced early-jazz chord progressions, and the other guy was playing a crazy cool style of bottleneck swing guitar. None of the usual bottleneck BS, just hitting notes that I’d be pleased to hit with my fingers, let along a metal tube.
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