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| - Driving by, we happened to notice the sign - "Farmer's BBQ". That's the sort of sign that grabs my attention. The inside actually looks a bit like you would expect. Not farm-like, exactly, but not fancy either.
So we mosey up to the counter and try to figure out the menu. Unfortunately it's a little complex. For a place called "Farmer's", you would expect simple. It's not bad, it just isn't simple. We asked for help and didn't really get it. You ask "what is good" and get "everything". I hate that.
I order the Blue Ribbon, or whatever it is called, as I'm already suspecting we won't be back. It comes with pulled pork (not chopped - an important distinction), beef, ribs, a choice of strips or wings (not mentioned, but you can do it) and two sides. I chose sweet potato fries and mac and cheese.
The selling point of Farmer's is that their meats are slow-smoked over hickory, which is good. I'm all about that. Unfortunately, they forgot to get some flavor in there. The meat is tender, but not flavored. It's like they wanted to tenderize the meat but allow you to add the flavor. Which they give you the option to do, with five sauces.
On the meats: They are all generally good and tender, but they lack flavor until you add the sauces. They give you large portions as well. We packed the leftovers into a to-go box that just about required a crane to haul it off. It just would have been better if we didn't have to have sauce.
That and the meat was so large - both the pork and the chicken - that it didn't make for good sandwiches. We took them home, chopped them up and made good sandwiches out of them. Chopped up the ribs and added them to some beans and they were tasty. But in the store? Not so good.
There were two items that stood out. The chicken strips were awesome. Very tender, light breading. They made for a most excellent meal. Unfortunately I didn't order them.
Sweet Tea Report: The second item was their Peach Sweeet Tea. Farmer's has a "regular" Sweeet Tea, which is about average, but their Peach Sweeet Tea is really good. I don't know that either is worthy of three "e"s, because they just aren't that sweet. But the Peach flavor - even though I don't really like peaches all that much - makes you go back for more.
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