It’s All Barbecue Sauce

Posted: June 22nd, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: barbecue, BBQ, kansas city, oklahoma joe's | Comments

This is all barbecue sauce.

It’s on display at a gas station in Kansas City called Shamrock.

Here’s the exterior.

Close by is a hugely popular barbecue restaurant called Oklahoma Joe’s. Here’s the menu.

And here’s the exterior.

These two institutions are actually the exact same business, in the same building.

Look in the upper right. You can see the signs in the gas station giving the prices for gas and cigarettes.

Here you can see the divider on the inside. The candy is in the gas station. The tops of the barbecue sauce bottles are sticking out from the restaurant side.

Don’t miss the last item on the menu just below.

A family prays before dinner.

(The guy in the yellow shirt at the nearby table is my dad.)

There’s a restaurant in New York called The Trailer Park Lounge. It’s a satirical dining experience. They provide paper towels on spindles at every table, instead of napkins. Here we find the same item, minus the ironic context.

My dinner. Pulled pork sandwich with rice and beans.

My father’s dinner. Chicken and ribs.

For some reason, they also sell frisbees. (Golf discs?)

Here’s the Oklahoma Joe’s website. Also check out their online BBQ store. And here are the Yelp reviews.

The food was great, but even if it hadn’t been, the experience would have been worthwhile. Next time someone asks me where to go in KC for barbecue, I’m definitely sending them here.

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