Where to get the best BBQ in Amarillo

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current location: Amarillo, Texas
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I realized that I made a grave error, and am obligated to wrong my right! After all that talk of the great BBQ and people of Amarillo, I failed to mention where we went to have the great experience.

The Country Barn in Amarillo, Texas has the best BBQ brisket I've ever had! That's where the crazy mirrored bathroom, giant cowboy statue, and really awesome people were.

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Also this morning I was thinking about Route 66, and how I've played the song "Route 66" probably a million times with various groups, and now I'm following the song as we travel to LA. It's crazy that I am putting images, smells, tastes, and sounds to these names that are so familiar to me! Bobby Troup's lyrics are like a textual map telling us where to go. Here they are:



Well if you ever plan to motor west,
Take my way take, that's the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

Well it winds from Chicago to LA
More than two-thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

Well it goes through St. Louie, Joplin, Missouri
Oklahoma City looks so, so pretty.
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona,
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
And take that California trip.
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.

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So far I've gotten a lot of kicks on Route 66! And some good BBQ.

Although just for the record, the giant crosses scattered across the landscape really freak me out. Yesterday we saw the biggest cross in the western hemisphere... Wouldn't that money have been better spent feeding a small country in Africa than showing how much you love God? I don't know Jesus, but it seems like his humble demeanor would agree...