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| - It was very good. I absolutely totally loved winning a gift card from Yelp to bring. But ultimately I'd hafta agree with Jason who once said that the Old Port would not be a good location for this fest.
Being that we came on Saturday afternoon after 2 solid days of rain: we were just like pigs on a farm, trudging through big piles of mud and hay to stuff our pie holes lol. I was covered in mud from the knees down n we only stayed about an hour n a half... Still didn't deter me from enjoying the ribs!
My other qualm with this festival is that I wanted to try stuff from every kiosk ...but that woulda been impossible even getting (say) a half rack "only" from each place. As it was I took a rack n a half home with me for dinner cuz the stomach wasn't guna accommodate everything there at that moment.
It shoulda been more set up like beer fest, where when u enter u exchange money for coupons and then (for example) 3 coupons would get u two ribs like a sampler from a rack. Or 6 coupons would get u 2 ribs and a sampler portion of pulled pork etc. (Still with the option to buy the half racks and full racks n chicken n pulled pork as per their prices for cash tho...that woulda kicked ass & they woulda made farrrr more money off of me).
I purchased from 3 of the 6 Rib kiosks (as well as one of the bars), and tried the sauce on a plastic fork from 5 of the 6 kiosks. The only sauce I didn't try was that from Smoking Bbq in Mtl for 2 reasons: they were entirely surrounded by mud so unaccessible and they're from Mtl anyways, so I can try 'em whenever I want.
Without intending to influence any judges of the contest (and the reason for waiting til Sunday afternoon for posting this): BONE DADDY's ribs were FANTABULOUS, they would get my vote for the ribs, perfect melt off the bone, perfect flavours, perfect sauce and oh so much love. Mariko told me to try they're pulled pork, so we did, but it was extremely dry and chewy by 3pm on Saturday sitting on the grill all day...so I wouldn't vote for their pulled pork though I still very much enjoyed.
Surprisingly the ribs from Alabama ( Camp 31) were a HUGE disappointment and I was shocked they were so the opposite of everything i thought they would be: wayyyy too salty on the meat, no love, cheap on the sauce and terribly overcooked, booooo guys, boooooooo. #1 i dont think so.
And I bought a sauce from the Texas kiosk (Bibb's Texas BBQ): they let us try the "award winning" house sauce first but it was their Chipotle version of it that I loved!! Guna be makin some ribs and/or grilled chicken realll soon!
Wish I coulda tried more, but so incredibly happy i got to try as much i did thanks to Yelp, I woulda bankrupted myself there without that gift card cuz as it was i still spent over! Looking forward to next year's fest: will definitely be a repeat offender!
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