Pink Pig BBQ
husband | October 8, 2008
Man!
We always want these places to have great Q. We really, really, truly want these cool, small, ramshackle cabins with polaroids of past Presidents to have good Q. Why is it that so many of them don’t? I really don’t get it. Is it because the owners have been doing it so long they always taste smoke and don’t realize their pork could easily be mistaken for pot roast? Maybe. Maybe it was never good, but the clientele never knew any better. Maybe we always end up there on non pit days and get old meat. I have no idea, it vexes me.
Pink Pig BBQ is in Cherry Log, GA. We have driven by it several times when up north cabinizing, detoxing and retoxing. On this trip we had met with good food from GA Boys BBQ, so we were hopeful that our lingering doubts of returning home would be covered in swine goodness. Alas, the only thing that we liked about the place was the fact that they had 3 picnic tables outside so we could enjoy the Sunday morning air with our dogs.
We ordered the usual:
Husband: Pork Plate with stew, potato salad.
Punkerdoo: Pork Plate with stew, potato salad.
The meat was pre-sauced with a ketchup based sauce. The sauce was bland and not good. The pork had little to do with Cherry Logs or any other form of wood and it was cold. The Brunswick stew had ground beef in it. A first for us. Pretty sure I disliked it strongly. Once again a drag as it is supposedly, magically, arcanely cooked in a giant cast iron pot. We really want things like this to work….damn. The potato salad made Kroger’s potato salad look like a good option.
Understand, we did not want to come back home that day. We ate and left Pink Pig in a hurry. Bummer.
This is the worst review I have ever given to a Q joint. I feel bad and I hope that our visit was just a working of stars that colluded to make our food so un-memorable. Then again, it was across the board bad.
You can decide on your own.
I feel the same... I just ate there this Saturday
Chuck | November 10, 2008I feel the same… I just ate there this Saturday evening at 7:00 pm (11-8-08), only 2 other tables with diners at them – I had rib / pork combo plate – can you say “struggling”?
The ribs were tough – nothing about them even remotely made me think tender or fall off the bone… now, I like my ribs to have a little pull to them – but to hurt my teeth? never – they were neither moist or tender –
pork – it was shredded, pre sauced and cold -
I had a side of stew – it was “ok”…. but a tad bit “crunchy” and I had a baked sweet potato as my side. The baled sweet potato was still hard… not cooked nearly as much as it should have been. I returned it for sweet potato fries, which I must say were quit tastey and the highlight of the meal.
My wife has a baked potato with pulled pork on top… it was cold also – (not the potato, but the pork). Can’t say that we’ll return….
Your comment about former presidents – you are right – there must have been 50 phgoto’s of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter – and many in different clothes, so they’ve certainly been there more than a handful of times…. not sure why??!!