Who enjoys a red slaw sandwich? You know, the kind of a sandwich with a red slaw to meat ratio of 3 parts sweet ketchup cabbage to 1 part smokeless stringy pork.
I know someone out there grew up eating Troutman’s Barbecue and swears it’s God’s gift to the culinary pork world and I feel so very sorry for that person. And for The N&O to include Troutman’s on their list of “influential” BBQ joints, and leave off a good half dozen far better restaurants, deserves an inquiry to see if these places were actually visited by the paper or if they just Googled “NC barbecue” and wrote down what was on the first three pages. It could have been an off, off, off day for these super nice folks and maybe they were low on ‘cue, but to slop a glop of catsup slaw with a wafer thin spread of overly dry pig meat is downright unforgivable.
Wish I could actually review the sandwich, but the scarcity of much meat makes it dang near impossible and I’m not about to start critiquing red slaw sammiches, because, you know - yuck. 3/10.
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