Rick's Barbecue

Me and my wife ate here on vacation in the area. I had the beef sandwich (which came with fries, less than $10) and my wife had the potato skins, which I believe was less than $10 as well. We both enjoyed our meals, service was quite friendly and good, even had an employee talk with us on his way to break as we headed back to our vehicle. Definitely go by there! Now it is the next day as I write this and I can still almost taste the moist, smoky/seasoned beef in my sandwich 🤤!

So I love bbq in general and the loaded baked potato with pulled pork is usually my go to. It's big, I usually get two meals out of it plus it's gluten intolerance friendly (yay) but I decided to try something new this week and majorly regretted it. I got the salad with the meat in a separate container since it was hot and I couldn't eat it until I got home. That way it wouldn't make the salad get gross. I was pretty bummed when I opened it and saw that not only was there barely any toppings but the salad was so limp, sad and borderline wet. Think about when you have a bagged salad in your fridge that you forget about a couple days after expiration. That was my lettuce. I was already home, it was really hot out and I was not about to make a 45 minutes round trip drive with 4 kids to go back to town and get something else so I begrudgingly ate it. They gave two packets of dressing with it and the meat itself was good but that's about it. I guess I'll continue to get my usual baked potato. You would think for $8 you could at least get decent lettuce. They have normally delicious (but spendy for fries) seasoned crinkle cut fries but are having supply issues and just have regular fries currently and their wait times in the drive thru can be pretty high. I honestly wish they would do a loaded seasoned fry with everything on it like their loaded potato that would be amazing. I haven't tried their cobbler because of the wheat but I will say their ice cream cup and very reasonable at 99¢ and have multiple flavors you can swirl in. You can get 1 or 2 flavors mixed into the vanilla ice cream. My favorites are the green apple or orange. My kids like the strawberry or caramel and say the chocolate tastes strange.

I had a pulled pork sandwich replete with vinegar slaw and pickles. Their hot sauce completed what was a really delicious sandwich. I had their baked beans and Mac and cheese for sides. The cheese sauce was too thin for me and bland. More cheese, more seasoning please! The baked beans were awesome. All in all, just a great meal.