Cue 2 - Son of Cue
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The hushpuppies were kinda bland (as in, not spiced, plain corn meal), but well cooked, and the 'sweet tea' was just sweetened iced tea - I think it was instant Nestea (with lemon) to be honest.
The rest however, was really very good - the cornbread was *very* sweet, almost like a corn *cake*, with a fine-meal *silky* texture, really very much like a fine cake. This kind of bothered me, until
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And then there was the meat. Wow. Coarse pulled, well smoked without being *smoky*, ever so mildly spiced, not a speck of fat to be seen (but it wasn't dry), and omg melt like butter tender. Honestly, I prefer finely pulled or even chopped, but this was *so* tender that it was heavenly. The sauces they had were a bit odd, a down-east mustard sauce that I really rather liked - it was very close to those I've had on the coast; a sweet/spicy peach sauce that was *surprisingly* good - they use pickled peaches as the base, and then spice it up; a 'Carolina Original' that was pretty much a Western NC mild-smoke, tomato-base - decent, but not my thang; and a 'Carolina Heat' which was the one truly spicy one of the bunch. They talked it up good, but it needed *more* heat for my taste - we asked for some Texas Pete, and got Frank's Red Hot instead, but it was close enough. But dammit, it *needed more vinegar*! I'm used to a vinegar base with spice added, not a thick pasty sauce with only a touch of vinegar to be found. Really though, if this had been cut with about 1/4 cider vinegar and it would have been *fantastic*. As it was, I glopped on the Heat and the Frank's until the plate ran with red, and it was wonderful.
Just one complete miss on their part there - no banana pudding on the menu at *ALL*. WTF?
Tain't no Allen & Sons, that's for sure.