At the Sign of Good Eats

I was fireballin' back across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida on Friday...
I left Lafayette at 5:30 (CST), picked up a 40 pound bag of crawdads in Kenner at Sal's, (Sal's Riverside Seafood -(504) 468-3623- 1100 24th Street Suite Q, Kenner, LA 70062) and planned on being in the Pensacola area by lunchtime...

I tried to get in touch with the Dixie Carpetbagger to see if he wanted to do lunch- talk about shootin' irons, politics, bloggers and blogging, a micro-blogmeet as it were.
Alas- he was not in the area on Friday but suggested a few places that I might find a tasty morsel for lunch...

"Red Bay Grocery is in Ponce De Leon south of I-10. Awesome food (the only bad thing I've hit so far was their smoked turkey), but it is-- literally-- a hole in the wall... one room, three tables. They're also a grocery/liquor store, with a pretty good selection of beers."

Well...

When he said "south" he wasn't kidding...
It was 9 miles south of I-10.
But, I figured anything this far off the interstate had to have something going for it...

The first hint that lunch would be interesting was the sign out front...


Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately) the dancing girls were on break or were off on Friday... No worries though. It said "lunch" and "BBQ", that was enough for me.
I opted for the pulled pork plate (pork, 2 sides and Texas toast).
The folks were right friendly and the BBQ was quite tasty...

The shelves inside the grocery were lined with locally produced vegetables and preserves... I really wanted to pick up a jar of the sweet pickles, the 5-pepper jelly and some of the fruit preserves. I couldn't make up my mind, so I deferred until my next visit. (And there WILL be an next visit...)



If you're in the area, stop by Red Bay Grocery- check their website for their shrimp specials (although those probably won't last long) and their all-you-can-eat rib specials.

Thanks for the ref, Dixie-

TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE