OT -- The "Choose One For The Rest Of Your Life" Thread

[utee94]

Lengua is tasty.  Cheek meat is tastier.

[847badgerfan]

If I lived in CenTex, my answer would be brisket, hands down, without question.

Oh, and

Fries > Tots

[MikeDeTiger]

Never had cheek meat.  Then again, other than your tailgate, I never had lengua.  

I guess that makes me think of "Squirrel, or rabbit?"

You can get some funny looks from Austin folks if you indicate you come from a place where that's an applicable question.  

[Cincydawg]

In my experience, the good - bad spectrum on brisket is pretty large, but then so is it for ribs.  I think I'd take poor ribs over poor brisket.  I think I'd still take superb ribs over superb brisket, but that's closer.  

Pulled pork seems to be narrower in spectrum, I've rarely had it worse than mediocre, if ever.  I've had pretty bad dried out brisket to the point I quit ordering it until my wife got it at Fox Bros and I tried it.  Dang.  Lewis is comparably good.  I have not had Lewis' ribs.  Yet.

We have another place near us called Fat Matt's which gets good ratings but the three times I tried it I was not so impressed.  The do have blues at night and it's crowded all the time.  It's also not very walkable.

Home - Fat Matt's Rib Shack - Restaurant in Atlanta GA
Home - Fat Matt's Rib Shack - Restaurant in Atlanta GA

[betarhoalphadelta]

BTW for me, it's ribs.

I do LOVE some good brisket, but it's rare to find. And making it myself is such a major undertaking that I don't do it often. 

Whereas ribs are so much more accessible and I do them fairly frequently. And it's *much* easier to do ribs for 2 people than brisket for 2 people, so when the kids move out, we'll probably still be making ribs on at least a monthly basis whereas brisket would only be something we'd do if we were having a gathering--and we don't have many. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Oh, and

Fries > Tots

Oh, definitely fries. Good fries are so good that I'd take the risk of getting bad french fries once in a while to get the upper bound of good fries, over tots. 

[Cincydawg]

I also agree about fries, the spectrum is huge.  Mediocre fries are pervasive, and terrible fries are not hard to strumble across.  The best I ever had was in Belgium.

Tots I agree are consistent, and I do like the "Totchos" they serve next door.  

The Nook on Piedmont Park – Midtown’s true neighborhood tavern

They claim their totchos are "world famous" ....

The Nook’s World Famous Totchos™ 

What are Totchos you ask?  They are our The Nook’s tater tots smothered in goodness!

[Cincydawg]

Oh, definitely fries. Good fries are so good that I'd take the risk of getting bad french fries once in a while to get the upper bound of good fries, over tots.

Great fries >>> great tots.

Mediocre tots >>> mediocre fries

[FearlessF]

Lengua is tasty.  Cheek meat is tastier.

agreed

I have cheek meat in my freezer

barbacoa de cachete

[Cincydawg]

Cheek meat or mountain oysters ...

[FearlessF]

cheek meat for me - easily

[847badgerfan]

Cheek meat. Best meat on the animal.

[Cincydawg]

I've never had mountain oysters, I probably never will try them.  I recall having "sweetbreads" once, at that time I wasn't sure what they were.  They actually were pretty tasty, like chicken.  

[betarhoalphadelta]

I've never had mountain oysters, I probably never will try them.

I've tried them. They were unobjectionable. But also not really memorable. It was just a deep fried piece of meat. 

Once the novelty of trying them once is gone, no point in eating them again.