This is going to be my longest review, but I had to do it because I've been telling the story so long I figured I had to make it public.

When I first moved to Florida roughly a decade ago, I was at the World Famous Swamp Buggy Races and there was a guy named Rick there with a smoker on a trailer the size of a mail truck. The pig he was roasting inside of it was the size of a Manatee and he was offering pulled pork sandwiches to everyone. At the time, I wasn't a fan of pulled pork so I did not take him up on his offer. After lots of alcohol and nowhere to get food, I asked for some. By that time, he had run out of buns and filled up a red solo cup. Being a huge fan of a proper bread to meet ratio on a sandwich, I was very disappointed with the no bun situation. That is, until I took my first sip/chug. Words can't describe it so I won't bother. I must have had seven or more cupfuls. Absolutely amazing. So much so, that I became a junkie eating pulled pork everywhere I went chasing the dragon of that first time at Swamp Buggy Races.

After at least a few (3?) years of hunting - I found it. Spanky's Speakeasy. Better, even. Mayby I think this one is better because I can't remember how good the first one was or maybe the first one was so good because I was so drunk. Either way, this one comes with a bun which I'm a big fan of. It's so similar in flavor and texture to rick's, I could have sworn it was him cooking. anytime someone says they like pork I bring them to spanky speakeasy and I can't drive by without stopping in for one and if I don't stop in I think about it for days afterwards.

Fast forward even more time. It's been at least five or six years since I've had Rick's pulled pork at Swamp Buggy races. I'm at the Swamp Buggy races. Rick is there. I tell him the entire story above but as soon as I get to spanky's speakeasy part, he stops me dead in my tracks and tells me to hold that thought. He runs over to his wife and stops her from the story she's telling and he walks her back to me and tells me to tell her exactly what I just told him. When I do, she has a look of shock on her face and I am in the dark. I ask them what's going on and, in shock, they tell me that Rick learned how to make pulled pork from the original owner of spanky's speakeasy over 30 years prior!!

I found the recipe through years of taste testing. Come try the pork is what I'm trying to say. 😎

Thanks for reading.