After a few hours of driving and marathon shopping on day one, by about 10pm we hit Famous Dave's for our three meat platter. But wait ... there was no three meat platter on their menu this time. Very disappointing. I even asked the waitress what happened to the three meat platter. Seems they have taken it off the menu. I guess the Americans were not as enamoured with the concept of three meats as I am. So now we had tears of sadness in our eyes rather than tears of happiness. Ok ... there was still some happiness at the table -- it's still barbeque after all!
Famous Dave's makes a variety of sauces to spice up or sweeten up or zing up your barbeque. Here is the gorgeous selection. My favourite was a toss up between Sweet & Zesty and Rich & Sassy. I guess because they both describe me so perfectly. Ahahahaha!
If you go there and want to try the sauces, take note of the RED cap on top of Wilbur's Revenge. It's not red just because they ran out of white lids (as I thought when I doused a bite of meat with it). This is some es~spice~y sauce! It almost brought tears to my eyes (again) and the bite lingered in the back of my throat for several minutes and after drinking some water and beer!
Now to the food. We both chose the baby back rib combo which comes with your second choice of any of these additional meats: Texas Beef Brisket • Georgia Chopped Pork • Southside Rib Tips • Barbeque or Country-Roasted Chicken • Chicken Tenders • Hot Link Sausage • Beer-Battered Cod • Traditional or Boneless Wings. Again, we both went with the Georgia chopped pork but with different sides. Emma had two sides of the Wilbur beans (baked beans loaded with smoked pork, brisket, hot link sausage and jalapeño peppers) so in actual fact, the beans alone are three-meats!
Emma loves these beans! They are v-e-r-y spicy. I tasted them last fall and they are not for me (in fact, no baked beans are for me) but clearly they are good enough for her to forgo any other side dish. She also doesn't like the corn bread, which I freakin' LOVE so I get double corn bread!
For my sides, I picked the cole slaw and barbeque chips. The cole slaw is creamy and cuts the spicy richness of the meat. The chips are dusted with Famous Dave's house bbq spice, but they don't taste spicy so much as smokey ... in fact, the spice dusting is a very similar flavour to Lay's BBQ chips.
Some of the chips were crispy and crunchy but many were soft and soggy so they were far from the best. We also both found the Georgia chopped pork a bit fatty. Aside from the barbeque sauce slathered on top, the pork itself had very little flavour. They also serve the pork (as well as the beef brisket) on a slice of plain white bread. Eeuuuwww. I don't get that.
Anyway the baby back ribs are fantastic. They are fall off the bone tender; smokey and a bit spicy and although they don't need it, you can add more of the side sauces to make your own unique flavour for the ribs. You get a half-rack of ribs and this is a very good sized portion. For me, the cornbread is DELIC! Luvs it. It is moist but not dense or dry and has a soft sweetness from the corn. It is perfect in combination with the spicy smokey barbeque ribs. And also a perfect vessel for delivering additional dollops of side sauce to your mouth.
Notwithstanding that we only got two meats, and not three, we were both stuffed. This is a h-u-g-e meal and very decently priced for all this food. Even though everything on our meal was not perfect, the good stuff (ribs, corn bread, Wilbur beans) is sooo good that I'm sure next time we are in Flint we'll be back for more barbeque!
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