To get the true experience, we recommend the mixed plate, which comes with four or five big and meaty ribs, an ample serving of sliced pork, several slices of white bread and a small Styrofoam cup of Archibald’s atomic-orange barbecue sauce.

mixed plate

When you’re at the birthplace of Alabama white sauce, you get the pit-smoked chicken, which is cooked to a golden brown for precisely three-and-a-half hours and then dunked into a big pot of the legendary sauce before serving.

pit-smoked chicken

The smoked turkey sandwich with chow-chow and coleslaw at Full Moon Bar-B-Que is so good it might make you forget you aren't eating pork.