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| - When you can't be with the ones you love, honey,
Love the ones you're with.
And love the ones I was with is exactly what I did, as I spent my Thanksgiving not with my family, but with Elite Emily and her mother. She suggested Meat and Three, and after reading some of the reviews, I was on board. It was my only hope for a traditional Thanksgiving meal at this point.
However, if you think you know what you are craving when you walk into Meat and Three, there's a high probability you're wrong. When faced with all your options, suddenly there's decisions and choices, and that backs things up of course.
We made reservations, but it wound up being not necessary as when we entered in, we were promptly showered with Thanksgiving salutations, and not phony ones... they seemed genuinely happy to have us there, and on a day that I was missing my family, that was a great touch.
For those unfamiliar with a "meat & three" restaurant (which I was), it's a popular concept in the South -- for one set price, you get a meat and three sides. Simple, right? Well, those who know math know that between 6 meat options, 6 cold side options, 10 hot side options, and 7 pudding cup options, that equals exactly 308 kajillion combinations.
I had to get my Thanksgiving sides: stuffing, mashed potatoes, and sweet potatoes, but when it came to ordering my meat, I stopped short of turkey. A nagging intuition (my tummy) said "Turkey is good, but you want the beef brisket!" I know I probably broke 10,000 years of American tradition, and now have everyone at Fox News hating me (because they didn't before), but I eschewed the turkey for the brisket.
And I was PLEASED, d*** it! DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!!!
No, seriously, the beef brisket is one of the best I ever had. You touched it with your fork, and it fell apart in juicy deliciousness. The mashed and sweet potatoes were great, and the stuffing was like a cornbread kind of stuffing, which left me hoping that this would be a permanent addition and not just a Thanksgiving thing. All the portions were big enough to do a little sharing, so we liberally passed things around for our dining pleasure.
Elite Emily loaded up on vegetables, which included grilled brussel sprouts. One day I'll have her head checked. But her pork was juicy and flavorful, which was killer for me, because it's so easy to mess up pork.
It's also easy to mess up turkey, which Mama R got and I tried as well. Juicy and plump, not only in the dark meat but the white meat as well. So good I would have sworn my own family made it.
Meat and Three may be a bit of a drive, being way up in the Anthem neighborhood, but it's definitely worth the drive. Side dishes change up every few months or so, encouraging repeat visits. And there will be repeat visits. For the meat and three, you'll pay (after drink and tax) almost $20, and you'll definitely receive your money's worth.
With good company and good food, Thanksgiving was made a little more joyful this year.
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