Steve Wertz wrote:
I tried the BBQ here at the Whole Foods Megastore here in Austin
(right underneath their company headquarters) Monday afternoon.

Steve, you need to take off that Hillary Clinton campaign button when
shopping there in Austin. grin I think you somehow made the guy mad.

Wow, that's a real shame about your experience there. Ours here in Las
Vegas was just the opposite. The price of the pulled pork, as reported,
was $5/#, where yours was almost double that. What we have are small
steam trays out in front of the butcher shop, and you serve yourself the
pulled pork, brisket, sausage, turkey or chicken. I don't recall the
other prices, but will do so next time we're there. When serving up my
# of the pulled pork, I saw very little fat pieces and it seemed juicy
but lean. I could simply dig around with the spoon and get bark or
white as wanted. It had a very mild sauce on it, but I didn't note any
liquid smoke at all.

Barbecue is a very individual item and what a person produces and how
it's served must be a matter of the individual store. If I was you, I'd
sure as heck let them know of your experience so they can bring it up to
a standard like we have here in Las Vegas.

FWIW, I recently bought a turkey for a neighbor to fry up. When he got
it defrosted, the darned thing had feathers all over it. I'm not
talking about pin feathers, but long, whole turkey feathers. The turkey
was for a party, and folks were scheduled to arrive within the hour, so
we had no choice but to get pliers and take the feathers off ourself. I
complained to the meat manager of a local grocery chain and was gently
"laughed at," because I didn't have the turkey to return. He literally
told me, "no refund." I then met with the store manager and was
treated, IMHO, like the village idiot. Again, I was told, "no refund,"
as the meat manager looked on and laughed. That kind of sh*t doesn't
happen to me in this lifetime, so I went home and started writing letters.

Within a few days, I heard from the headquarters, then another letter
followed from the district manager and then the director of the stores
here in LV. The manager and meat manager were "retrained," as the
director put it in his letter and they sent me a $50 gift certificate.
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