About a week ago I received a coupon via email for a free entree at Sticky Fingers BBQ with the purchase of one entree, a $13.99 value. This deal was too good to pass up so Friday night we loaded up the van and headed out to get us some "corporate" BBQ. Not having very high expectations of what we might find at Sticky Fingers, I left an open mind as I am not a big fan (none whatsoever) of Corp. run restaurants and living in the South now, I now have more BBQ shacks to choose from than I do McDonalds restaurants.
My two girls absolutely love going out to BBQ eateries with multiple sauce options sitting on the table. They get a little squirt on the fingertip and let me know what one is the sauce of choice. We actually make this a very fun game that is cheap entertainment for the wife and myself while we wait for our food to arrive.
As you can see, I went with the two meat combo, 1/2 rack of ribs and Smoked chicken wings. As if that wasn't enough, I had to add two sausages for $3 more. The ribs were average, nothing that stood out and made me want to rush back and get them again, but they were OK. It just makes me really wonder how a Corporate Chain like this place can really provide fresh, smoked meats? I always wonder if these things are coming from some Corporate centralized distribution center and they just heat and serve as necessary. I have no factual data backing this up, but I always wonder.
Now onto the wings. Still searching for a better wing than what they serve at Wild Wings Cafe Downtown (come on, you know as well as I do, this will never happen) I had to try the hickory smoked (for hours) jumbo wings. These things were nasty. Very fatty and being slow cooked, the fat never stood a chance to get crispy or cook out. Now here is an idea, smoke them (or receive them already precooked from that jumbo corporate distribution center)just like you do, then drop them in the fryer to render down the fat and make them eatable. Also, I prefer a buffalo wing and not plain wings that I can add my own BBQ sauce to, but that is just personal preference.
The wife ordered the pulled pork sandwich and added onion straws to it for some unknown amount of $$. She enjoyed it enough to finish the whole thing, but did say that it did absolutely nothing for her as the slaw sucked! You see, the slaw is what makes a pulled pork sandwich. As long as the meat is tender and fat free, you put a good quality slaw on top of that thing, now we are talking.
Overall I will not be rushing back to Sticky Fingers anytime soon. In fact, I don't see myself ever returning unless I were to get another 1/2 off meal coupon as the upstate is flooded with better quality BBQ joints that are locally owned. The highlight of the entire meal was the $3 I splurged on for two sausage links. These things had a really nice smoke ring on them and tasted like they didn't just come out of the cooler and slapped in the microwave for a minute on high heat.
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