Nunya Bidnits wrote:
> Nonny wrote, whilst kicking a nest of giant mutant Kansas City hornets:
>

Marty, I was painting things with too broad of a brush, and apologize.
Mrs. Nonny and I are from Marshall and grew up on Ocey Bruner's. He has
a neice or relative that still sells barbecue, on East Arrow in
Marshall, and it's a must-stop kind of place for us. Mrs. Nonny's a St.
Luke's grad, and I am a UMKC grad as well, with many friends and
classmates in the Raytown, Lees Summit and Liberty area. We get to KC
about yearly, still, and enjoy staying at the Embassy Suites, up by the
airport. I don't recall the name of the place just across the road from
the Embassy Suites, but it's a little barbecue place that has some
really good sauce. We usually get a mixed plate for each of us, to go,
and eat it while sucking down the free drinks at the Embassy Suite's
happy hour. <grin>

While I agree with you about Gates having some classic sauce, I guess
it's a matter of my old taste buds. Ocey Bruner's sauce was less sweet
than KC Masterpiece and probably close to Gates, but I still gravitate
personally a bit more toward the sweeter incarnations nowadays.

The next time we're passing through on the way to Marshall or visiting
friends in KC, I'll let you know and will pick up some suggestions about
where to go.

It's interesting, but having lived in NC for many years, I'm a fanatic
nowadays for plain old pulled pork. The cruel part is that the joints
we go to in the Carolinas also have fried chicken gizzards and livers,
leaving me with a very harsh decision to make. <Grin>

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