I also miss Eric's posts here. I have been hoping he is well.
As a midwesterner, I know most of the barbecue places around here provide pulled pork and some beef, and chicken for the "no red meat" crowd. If I found myself at the Douglas place, I would be getting the catfish and frogs legs, which are somewhat rare here. (I grew up with catching the fish and frogs and Dad cooked them for us, as Mom was from the East Coast and didn't know such delacacies.)
The story brings back memories of traveling cross-country on "family vacations" in the pre-interstate-highway days where you could stop in a small town and find such jewels of places without a corporate logo or a nationally-homogenized menu or standard decor in sight.
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