Jack Stack is good.......upscale......and you are correct the cheesy corn bake is great, as are their baked beans. But for "down home" BBQ, Arthur Bryant's is the place to go.....it is far from fancy, and the neighborhood is so bad that they actually have an armed guard patrolling the parking lot, but their ribs and "burnt ends" are to die for......
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Okay, I'll go with that. I liked both of them (having only been to KC twice) and some others. Wreaked pure havoc on my blood sugar and cholesterol, but if ya gotta go....
That being said, since I can't just hop on a plane and get that, I make my own ribs. Dry rub, slow roasted, then wet sauce for the last 40 minutes or so. More of a Carolina type sauce (sweet/hot) but damned if I don't make my co-workers jealous when I have them at lunch--and it doesn't matter what kind of ribs I use, the slow roasting guarantees there won't be any meat whatsoever left on those bones.