In Hot Pursuit of Barbecue -- In a City of Smoky Options, There's Just No Hams-Down, Rib-Tickling Favorite 'Cue Joint

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Give a gal a rib and launch centuries of debate over where she's supposed to walk. But give her a map of every barbecue joint in Memphis, and she's liable to walk anywhere, including smack into places she'd never expect to find herself.

At least that's my take on how I found myself inside the RangeUSA shooting gallery on a recent Saturday afternoon, scoping out a small army of holstered men, seeking the stranger I was to meet whose description of himself - "I'll be the only unarmed person there" - proved accurate enough for me to find him.

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In Hot Pursuit of Barbecue -- In a City of Smoky Options, There's Just No Hams-Down, Rib-Tickling Favorite 'Cue Joint

My lunch meeting was with Randal Cooper, a frequent contributor to my Whining & Dining blog, who posted his Google map of local barbecue restaurants back in February. When I asked him to meet me to talk about it - after all, out-of-towners here for the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue

Cooking Contest this weekend might want to eat like the locals do - he suggested we try Uncle Sam's Bar-B-Q on Whitten Road, which is inside RangeUSA and touts itself...

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