Hot Take: Little Dooey's is Trash

[RocketDawg]

Sorry to Hijack the thread, but memories of Len Lew's have filled my mind. In 1968, it was a favorite gathering place for many of us who loved cold beer and BBQ. I have old guy memory, but as far as I know Len Lew's cooked their pork over a pit and sliced it (no pulled pork at Len Lew's), then served it with BBQ sauce on a burger bun, for most of us with a pitcher of Schlitz, Budweiser or PBR.

What good BBQ and what good memories. I still do everything I can do today to honor the Len Lew's tradition.

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Back in 68, we also had a Coleman's BBQ (on H-82?) that was very smoky and pretty good. If my memory is correct, you could buy 4 Pork BBQ sandwiches at Clark's Minute Mart for $5.00. I have no idea how they made money on them.

Thanks guys, Back to Little Dooey's.

$5 in 1968 was a lot of money. If you'll recall, we played all our "good" football games in Jackson, and a game ticket was $5. I don't know what the inflation factor is since then, but I'll bet it's in excess of 10. So that $1.25 pork sandwich would be $12 or $13 now ... quite pricey.

 

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Thanks Reb for the response. How is going in Oxford? I mean do you not have anything better to do than run down everything state?

 

[BELdog]

Here you can watch as they literally take their pork butts out of the box and put them on the smoker.

As part of a staged commercial, yes.

 

[HD6]

Why would they not show the way they actually do it? That makes no sense. You don't have to give away the recipe, but you could show the meat being rubbed.

 

[yakalot2]

My wife and I loved Coleman’s

 

[garddog]

Sonny's if I remember correctly was out past village cycle. Turn left off 82 onto 16th section road and about 150 yards up on the left. Best BBQ ever in Golden Triangle. I lived there when he died. Sad, sad day for BBQ lovers.

 

[BELdog]

Why would they not show the way they actually do it? That makes no sense. You don't have to give away the recipe, but you could show the meat being rubbed.

Don’t know why they did that, but I spent enough time running that smoker to know that nothing goes on the smoker without a healthy dose of dry rub. Something may have changed since I left several years ago, but I have a hard time believing Barry decided to change the way he does things after being successful for so long.