This Week's Restaurant Review...
By Sam Smithers
Chief Restaurant Reviewer
We happened to be in Joplin last week around noontime and decided to pop in for some real good barbecue at Jim Bob's right thar on Rangeline. We had eaten there before a couple of times and were much impressed with their barbecue brisket. But this time we ordered the barbecue sandwich and fries for $5.99 and got the worst barbecued meat we've ever seen in a sandwich. Maybe someone fell into the pit.
Our waitress delivered the order with a platter of cole slaw stacked on top of the fries in order to make them into mashed potatoes.
The meat was the grade they use in canned food or dog food. Big hunks of squares, fat, and gristle, so tough that when you put a fork in it, the chunk bounced off the table. My companion ordered the same sandwich and it was full of the same meat. It certainly was not brisket.
We brought this to the attention of the waitress who said "Umm." We advised her to check with the chef, er cook, to see how this could happen. We continued to eat the sandwich, with a knife and fork, in the hopes that things would get better. They didn't.
As she brought the check, she asked how we enjoyed our lunch. Imagine. We again pointed out the meat quality in the sandwich and she asked us if we would like another one. We are too young for dentures so we said no and she smiled and went away for good.
Most of the patrons on this noontime day had climbed out of pickup trucks and looked like they cleaned their teeth with ten penny nails and maybe they like really tough hunks and chunks of meat in their barbecue sandwich. But if you go to Jim Bob's Barbecue, order the chicken.
Chief Restaurant Reviewer
We happened to be in Joplin last week around noontime and decided to pop in for some real good barbecue at Jim Bob's right thar on Rangeline. We had eaten there before a couple of times and were much impressed with their barbecue brisket. But this time we ordered the barbecue sandwich and fries for $5.99 and got the worst barbecued meat we've ever seen in a sandwich. Maybe someone fell into the pit.
Our waitress delivered the order with a platter of cole slaw stacked on top of the fries in order to make them into mashed potatoes.
The meat was the grade they use in canned food or dog food. Big hunks of squares, fat, and gristle, so tough that when you put a fork in it, the chunk bounced off the table. My companion ordered the same sandwich and it was full of the same meat. It certainly was not brisket.
We brought this to the attention of the waitress who said "Umm." We advised her to check with the chef, er cook, to see how this could happen. We continued to eat the sandwich, with a knife and fork, in the hopes that things would get better. They didn't.
As she brought the check, she asked how we enjoyed our lunch. Imagine. We again pointed out the meat quality in the sandwich and she asked us if we would like another one. We are too young for dentures so we said no and she smiled and went away for good.
Most of the patrons on this noontime day had climbed out of pickup trucks and looked like they cleaned their teeth with ten penny nails and maybe they like really tough hunks and chunks of meat in their barbecue sandwich. But if you go to Jim Bob's Barbecue, order the chicken.
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