Leatha's ~ Best BBQ

Allow me to introduce you to the best Bar-B-Que on the entire planet!
But first I should apologize for that BBQ joint you last ate from. Oh I'm sure they billed themselves as the best in town or in the country but they were wrong. Plain and simple. Just wrong. Sorry, they lied to you.

It may have even been pretty good. Or it may be the best you've ever tasted. But it is not the best on the planet. I'm talking the "entire" planet.

First of all, you can't get good BBQ above the Mason - Dixon line. It's just not possible. BBQ was born in the south and no matter how much them Yankees try, they simply don't have the genetics to get it right.

For BBQ to be good it has to bake in the southern sun, get marinated in southern air and then slathered with southern hospitality. Otherwise it's just meat with some sauce on it. You might as well use ketchup for gods sake.

Mississippi is the birth place of good BBQ. You may have heard different? Well, they lied to you! Mississippi is the only place you can still find or ever will find the best BBQ on the planet. It's located in a little city called Hattiesburg and it's only in one place. That place is called Leatha's BBQ. Leatha is an old black woman that started sharing her best BBQ with the rest of the planet in 1975.

As you branch further out from the "Hub City" you will find pretty good BBQ, quite good actually but the more distance you put between Hattiesburg and yourself, well it just goes down hill from there.
It's all in the geography! It really is, take a look at the illustration to the right, the graphic explains it all.

You see, good BBQ is directionally proportional to how far away from the south you get. Up north you might as well just forget it.

Now I know many of you from Texas might want to argue the point and I'll grant you the best steaks probably come from Texas, but you got a whole lot to learn about BBQ over there. And if anyone there did learn it, they learned it from a Mississippian!

Ribs, Brisket, pulled pork and sausage all started here. Southern folks invented BBQ. And if it was invented somewhere else, then southern folks perfected it. This is the home of corn bread, black eyed peas and butter beans, collard greens and BARBEQUE!

Plus, it's the only place to get real sweet tea. (Pronounced Suh-weeee-Teee) The kind that if you don't have diabetes you'll get it soon enough if you keep drinking the stuff.

Sweet tea and BBQ can only be produced within the geographical lay lines and confines of the south. So don't go drinking that other stuff and for gods sake never buy it in a bottle.

Now that you have been properly educated you probably want to know where you can eat the best damn BBQ in the south & on the entire effin' planet?. Well, follow this link. Be sure to go hungry. When you get there order some suh-weee-teee and have a seat. You may have to wait a spell, good BBQ isn't instant. Then enjoy.

Feel free to sample the best damn cole slaw while there too. It's in it's own food group!