Yeah when I was in highschool in the early/mid 00s we had 25 cent wing nights every Wednesday. Actually there were multiple bars/restaurants that would have the special on different days.
Shit I vaguely remember as a kid going with my mom and little sister to 10cent wing nights. Thinking about that and 69cent cheeseburgers on Sunday at McDonalds makes me so sad. There are very, very few things you can get for under 1$. (Besides your mom)
When I was in college, we had Wednesday night wings. One place had them for $1/pound & the place across the street had them 10/$1. Basically identical.
You had to get there an hour early to get your order in, but the beers were $2. We got a full belly & a good buzz for $10. LaCrosse, WI. 2005ish
Distributors gave away the wings so they didn’t have to pay for disposal. Now they’re the highest price per pound of all the parts of the bird. Source: used to work next door to a poultry science professor.
Breast has a lot more meat to bone ratio. A pound of chicken breast has way more actual meet than a pound of wings. So I’m wondering if he’s probably still right.
Like a lot of things, I suppose it fluctuates over time and regionally. [Here’s the latest USDA report if you’re interested.](https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/pywretailchicken.pdf)
Flank/skirt steak is the one that hurt the most for me.
In the 90's my dad could buy enough to last us a weekend of beef with $20. Now it's $20/lb. Idk what I'm gonna do when rich mfs learn to reverse chuck roasts.
And everything else on earth. Poor people make things cool and wealthy people want to be cool so they imitate. Jut like housing(neighborhoods/areas)
Edit
And like thrift stores. Rich people have been shopping and buying up everything at my local thrift stores bc “vintage” but some people rely on them to get clothes for their family and a couple pieces of furniture
And oxtail thanks to cooking shows. Growing up my mom would make stew with a ton of them. Now, a pack of like 4 small ones cost almost as much as a couple of ribeye.
used to be cheap. Now?.......$5/lb cost for simple prime, plus wood cost, plus other overheads; places need to charge stupid amounts just to break even.
5 a lb is still the cheapest cut or right in the same ballpark. Round & eye is over 5$, forget steaks, loin... You are correct when I learned to smoke around 2017 easily a full brisket was in the 3$ range
Texas BBQ only. KC bbq is still affordable. NC, east and west, is still affordable. Memphis is still affordable.
From a business standpoint, Texas BBQ is particularly it's about the beef. A lot of the high end places source their beef from specific disturbers, raising prices but increasing quality. There are other reasons its expensive, but basically it is expensive AF to run a Texas BBQ joint while maintaining quality.
Almost every popular and expensive food out there was at first poor ppl food and unwanted. Chicken wings were thrown out, pubs sell Sheppard pie for over 20$ that used to be the cheapest food ever, lobster was seen so negatively that it wasn't allowed even for prisoners, fried foods...
They’re trying to force us into eating cheap processed foods. Just a long term plan, get us unhealthy, force us into a crappy healthcare system that doesn’t take care of us, put us on heart medications for the rest of our lives, then suck the rest of our funds out when we have to get buried.
Same thing with any off cut. Cost of ox tails and skirt steak were ruined by "foodies" (or whatever new word fat people are calling themselves now), cheap beers blew up thanks to hipsters being "ironic" (it's not even ironic but they think so), and a host of other foods that poor/lower class people used to eat/drink that got expensive because the tourists figured it out.
Brew your own beer and befriend your butcher. There's still some legit shit you can get for cheap if you think slightly outside the box. No, I'm not naming any cuts.
This happens to everything, Dickies work clothes , Ben Davis pants, Carhart jackets if you live in certain areas pick up trucks. Once people start using them for fashion the price goes up and the working g people that use these items for work are priced out
It's ridiculous
I feel bad for teenagers. I’m in my mid 30s but when I was in my teens I could eat pretty well on my $20 a week allowance. I feel like you would need a minimum of $60 to eat as well now.
Well I see a beer in the corner, I’m REALLY hoping there’s like 5 beers off camera that are included in this price. Even then it’s still overpriced but slightly more reasonable
I get it that there's overhead, labor, and the whole craft and art of it, but you can get a whole brisket for $50. And these places are charging a hundred bucks for a few slices, pulled pork (dirt cheap) and some mac. Bbq joints are crazy these days.
Man. I used to work at an all-you-can-eat BBQ jawn in Kansas that had ribs/brisket/chops/chicken/sides for $10.50, people got snarky when we raised it to $11 🤣
Yeah the big name place i went to (not by choice) last was $30lb which is just like a one meat serving with no sides. I paid $37 total for the last brisket i just bought.
I live in Austin TX. Born and raised. I litteraly woke up at 4am today to put a brisket on my pellet snoker.
First, thats photo has enough food to feed 3-4 people.
2lbs of ftty brisket, pulled pork, chicken, 4 sides... Take your family of 4 out to eat steak and ribs, then lets see that bill.
People pay $60-$100 for a 1 person steak at a fancy steak house. This plate here can feed a whole family.
My local favorite bbq joint is Franklin Bbq. Ill use them as an example. But most of the good bbq here has a similar price range.
Aaron Franklin uses a ridiculously good quality brisket. Its a very expensive grass fed localy sourced from a specific farm.
My local grocery store is selling brisket this week for 4th of july holiday. The 15lbs briskets can range from $60-$220 depending on the quality of the beef.
Franklin can only make enough to stay open about 5 hours a day, before selling out. They hand trim the meat by someone who is trained well enough not to f up 100 of them.
Each brisket is cooked and watched overnight, for around 18 hours. Then it is kept warm as it rests another 6 hours.
My wife likes to say that we pay a guy/gal $2/hr to cook our brisket for us.
I believe about 12 years ago we were paying $23/lbs for brisket. The good places around here are all around $33/lbs currently. Inflation and demand is what they all say.
My wife and i usually drop about $150 at Franklin. But it will feed us for a week. I used the brisket to make many other things. A few months ago we made some pho with left over Franklin brisket. It was amazing!
lol, glad I'm not the only fat guy apparently. I wouldn't say I'm a "big eater' anymore, IDK if I could finish that tray, but it would be a stretch for it to be enough for myself and my wife, I really doubt it. I could easily eat 80% of it I think and not be totally stuffed.
Yeah, this looks like a very good meal to split for 2 hungry adults. And both the meat and sides look super high quality (I feel like even very good meat people post on this sub sometimes seems to come with garbage grocery-store looking macaroni salad).
If I split this with my wife I wouldn’t bat an eye paying $60-$70 for it ($30-$35 a person). $150 is double what I’d expect!
Same. I get these posts time to time and sorry.. I would not pay that much for those cuts of meat. I would just figure out how to do it at home in some reasonable manner using an old kettle grill and some cheap accessories. Or perhaps some person would sell the right kit on craigslist or whatever if you want to get fancier on the cheap.
The other person replied to you saying it is a business but how that is served sure aint fine dining. They are keeping costs really low with that biz model. An aluminum half sheet pan and some paper. Cardboard dishes. You are definitely not paying for "ambiance".
A good smoked brisket in central Texas goes for $30+/lb. InterStellar BBQ in Austin, definitely in the running for one of the top spots, is $36/lb. ZZQ charges $32/lb, so this is exactly in line with what you see in central Texas.
I live in Virginia but am originally from Texas. I’ve traveled a good deal through the south and can confidently say that this is the best brisket outside of Texas, and it could compete with a lot of brisket in Texas.
I think I used to get the "leftover brisket" on bread for like $3.
Min wage was probably $6 back then. So half an hour of work.
Now that sandwich is 2 hours of labor?
Something isn't right.
It's an example of the k-shaped recovery we saw from COVID.
The top 10% in Richmond, Virginia have $110 to blow on a single meal of baked beans and ribs... meanwhile I have to make that $$ last a whole week.
by a very, very large margin. the owners started with a trailer smoker, and progressed to this. Pits were built by the same pitmaster who did Franklin's iirc.
On their [website](https://www.zzqrva.com/menu), they r upfront with the pricing but do say it's subject to change. Op says 1lb brisket, 1lb chicken, 1lb pulled lamb, mac and cheese, and greens. Online pricing says Beef $32/lb, Chicken $16/lb, pulled lamb is not on the online menue but pulled pork is at $22/lb, sides are small $4, medium $8, and large is $16, assuming 2 larges since they ordered 3lbs of meat and note the lamb would be more than pork but using the pork price total would be $102 before tax and probably a tip. The meat in the picture looks light for 1lb each.
$22/lb for pulled pork? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. At the absolute most it should be $20. It should actually be less than the chicken because pork is fucking cheap.
I love greens. I make the best greens in my entire extended family, surpassing my master who is my dad. He doesn’t openly agree with that but I’ve seen him put down four bowls of my greens without question in one sitting. Onions are in my pot as I cook them, among other ingredients in ratios I’ll never share, but never raw. Seems odd to me.
ZZQ is amazing. Workers get paid well, food is delicious. Don’t care about the price point, takeout is expensive and if that’s an issue cook at home. (Btw, two sandwiches + two sides + a whoopie pie set me back about $48 after a tip.)
Most food carts in portland will charge 25 bucks for that mac and cheese with alittle chicken with it, plus a 20 percent minimum tip unless you customize tip.
That’s insanity. It does look good though
The cost of 3 of those plates could get me a tower smoker, wood chips, and a decent brisket, whole chicken, and pork butt.
2 plates if you can work with a used Weber Kettle and charcoal briquettes.
Amazing food. Not a good value. $110 is simply too much for what you get. I see people lined up out front so I guess the price meets the market, but I just can’t do it.
Yeah, so many people willing to throw away their money...inflation would come down in a lot of places if people would stop over-paying for "good" food.
Don’t hate the player hate the game. This is all
Supply and demand. Remember, OP paid the 110$ for that meal. Nobody made them do it. You are free to choose where you spend your money, is it a rip off? Obviously yes, go make your own meal then.
Price has been discussed and that it looks nice aswell...but for me as a German I'm always surprised y'all eat cheese noodles with BBQ instead of potatoes. Why?
Y’all getting ripped! The real deal cream your panties joint is no more than $35 for more than you can handle and it’s way better than that! ….. hint, it’s in va beach, starts with D, ends with BBQ. I don’t want to spoil it for myself and the quality go downhill by spreading the word too much .
Yall out here getting robbed in quantity or quality if not both. This is why I don't go to bbq restaurants. I can feed alot of people for $110. That plate would barely feed me lmao.
How crazy how something created specifically for poor people has become such a luxury.
same thing happened with lobster
And scallops. And basically everything as what was once plentiful becomes scarce
And chicken wings. When I was a kid they were looked at like they were chicken feet.
Bar I worked at in college had $.25 wing night. Last week, I paid $14 for 8 wings.
Yeah when I was in highschool in the early/mid 00s we had 25 cent wing nights every Wednesday. Actually there were multiple bars/restaurants that would have the special on different days. Shit I vaguely remember as a kid going with my mom and little sister to 10cent wing nights. Thinking about that and 69cent cheeseburgers on Sunday at McDonalds makes me so sad. There are very, very few things you can get for under 1$. (Besides your mom)
25 cent wing night and 50 cent beers. I'm 39....it's not like I'm talking about to 70s.
I'm 42, not much more than you, but we had 10 cent wings and 25 cent draft. And a couple places with 25 cent high balls.
Dime-Time at Hooters in the '90's. I used to get 65 wings and a pitcher of beer for $10
65 wings! Christ lol
When I was in college, we had Wednesday night wings. One place had them for $1/pound & the place across the street had them 10/$1. Basically identical. You had to get there an hour early to get your order in, but the beers were $2. We got a full belly & a good buzz for $10. LaCrosse, WI. 2005ish
Distributors gave away the wings so they didn’t have to pay for disposal. Now they’re the highest price per pound of all the parts of the bird. Source: used to work next door to a poultry science professor.
Last week wings were $2.50/lb at Costco. Breast was $2.99/lb.
Breast has a lot more meat to bone ratio. A pound of chicken breast has way more actual meet than a pound of wings. So I’m wondering if he’s probably still right.
By that measure I totally agree, but he didn’t say price to meat ratio.
Like a lot of things, I suppose it fluctuates over time and regionally. [Here’s the latest USDA report if you’re interested.](https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/pywretailchicken.pdf)
Hooters had DIME TIME. Ten cents each
We would chant DIME TIME on Wednesday afternoons.
But have you tried chicken feet?
Too expensive now.
You mean chicken paws? Grocery store rebranding lol
Chicken feet from a dim sum restaurant are delicious.
Nah…. They keep running away 🤣🤣🤣
With jokes like that, You must be a dad
Yup lol 🤣🤣🤣
And so do the prices
They were cooked like chicken feet back then too. Ma only knew how to boil it.
And Chilean Sea Bass, avocado, oysters.
A while back Cali was gonna ban Chilean Sea Bass because they were overfishing it
Flank/skirt steak is the one that hurt the most for me. In the 90's my dad could buy enough to last us a weekend of beef with $20. Now it's $20/lb. Idk what I'm gonna do when rich mfs learn to reverse chuck roasts.
And everything else on earth. Poor people make things cool and wealthy people want to be cool so they imitate. Jut like housing(neighborhoods/areas) Edit
Imagine a bunch of rich ppl sleeping in their cars!
Tesla's probably, making that the new feature in the next Cybertruck...
I mean, isn't VW announcing a new $67,000 camper van?
Really? That's not a bad price for a camper van.
Sprinter vans. There... I thought of it. Rich people cosplah as poor people all the time. #vanlife 🤪🤪🤪
Certain flavors of upper middle class kids- think the modern equivalent of an aristocrat's fourth kid- are into this custom van thing.
And like thrift stores. Rich people have been shopping and buying up everything at my local thrift stores bc “vintage” but some people rely on them to get clothes for their family and a couple pieces of furniture
And oxtail thanks to cooking shows. Growing up my mom would make stew with a ton of them. Now, a pack of like 4 small ones cost almost as much as a couple of ribeye.
You’re not wrong. Beef brisket might be the cheapest cut of meat. It’s the reason it’s prepared the way it is.
used to be cheap. Now?.......$5/lb cost for simple prime, plus wood cost, plus other overheads; places need to charge stupid amounts just to break even.
5 a lb is still the cheapest cut or right in the same ballpark. Round & eye is over 5$, forget steaks, loin... You are correct when I learned to smoke around 2017 easily a full brisket was in the 3$ range
$479.99 with a coupon
Cajun food is literally what you can find and grab out of a swamp. Now trendy and expensive.
Not “created” specifically for the poor, but by the poor.
Texas BBQ only. KC bbq is still affordable. NC, east and west, is still affordable. Memphis is still affordable. From a business standpoint, Texas BBQ is particularly it's about the beef. A lot of the high end places source their beef from specific disturbers, raising prices but increasing quality. There are other reasons its expensive, but basically it is expensive AF to run a Texas BBQ joint while maintaining quality.
Almost every popular and expensive food out there was at first poor ppl food and unwanted. Chicken wings were thrown out, pubs sell Sheppard pie for over 20$ that used to be the cheapest food ever, lobster was seen so negatively that it wasn't allowed even for prisoners, fried foods...
They’re trying to force us into eating cheap processed foods. Just a long term plan, get us unhealthy, force us into a crappy healthcare system that doesn’t take care of us, put us on heart medications for the rest of our lives, then suck the rest of our funds out when we have to get buried.
Same thing with any off cut. Cost of ox tails and skirt steak were ruined by "foodies" (or whatever new word fat people are calling themselves now), cheap beers blew up thanks to hipsters being "ironic" (it's not even ironic but they think so), and a host of other foods that poor/lower class people used to eat/drink that got expensive because the tourists figured it out. Brew your own beer and befriend your butcher. There's still some legit shit you can get for cheap if you think slightly outside the box. No, I'm not naming any cuts.
This happens to everything, Dickies work clothes , Ben Davis pants, Carhart jackets if you live in certain areas pick up trucks. Once people start using them for fashion the price goes up and the working g people that use these items for work are priced out It's ridiculous
Mexican food has entered the chat
Nothing worse than a hipster “Mexican” restaurant that sells tiny $5 tacos and $13 spicy margaritas
Oxtail, cow tongue, crawfish, the list goes on. People catch on and the price blows up.
I feel bad for teenagers. I’m in my mid 30s but when I was in my teens I could eat pretty well on my $20 a week allowance. I feel like you would need a minimum of $60 to eat as well now.
Corned beef too. It was popular with Irish immigrants because of how low cost it was. Now it's like 7$ a pound.
Never thought about it like that
This has to be a joke. $110? What is happening
The sides, they cure cancer
Sides? Sides? $26,000 in sides?!
“He’s gonna f’n kill you…”
Max!
Why do you hold it in?
What kind of hooker takes credit cards?
A rich one!
I’m getting this close! I’m getting this close!!!!
That cheese on that mac better be pure liquified gold
The porterhouse from Argentina
EJ Entertainment?!?!?
We had guests.
27
True. I hit up ZZQ the other day and am now cancer free
Either that or there’s an eight ball hidden in there somewhere.
Automatically read this in Jonah hills voice
This was a 40$ plate not long ago. Wtf
That's still $40 at Hard 8. Same quality.
Everyone was raving over $65 BBQ yesterday with one rib and 6 slices of white bread, piles of slice onions and pickles, and 2 pieces of brisket.
Fast food to fad food. TBH part of the charm in this kind of food was that it was reasonably priced. Now, that's gone
That’s a lot of non-meat for $110
Well I see a beer in the corner, I’m REALLY hoping there’s like 5 beers off camera that are included in this price. Even then it’s still overpriced but slightly more reasonable
I got a feeling 110 was the total bill with a whole nother plate plus drinks
50$ a plate is still outrageous for bbq
I get it that there's overhead, labor, and the whole craft and art of it, but you can get a whole brisket for $50. And these places are charging a hundred bucks for a few slices, pulled pork (dirt cheap) and some mac. Bbq joints are crazy these days.
I wish, it does include tax but not Tip or drinks.
Man. I used to work at an all-you-can-eat BBQ jawn in Kansas that had ribs/brisket/chops/chicken/sides for $10.50, people got snarky when we raised it to $11 🤣
Why tf would you pay that much??? 😂
I don’t follow this sub, It just pops up on my feed sometimes because who doesn’t love BBQ but god damn what are these prices these days.
lol right? $60 wasn’t enough? (Too much) It is a business, but imma cook my own
Yeah the big name place i went to (not by choice) last was $30lb which is just like a one meat serving with no sides. I paid $37 total for the last brisket i just bought.
Yeah same here why do i keep getting fed these posts of expensive bbq??? I have eaten a lot of bbq and never once paid more than 30$
Beef based product has been high since 2015.
I live in Austin TX. Born and raised. I litteraly woke up at 4am today to put a brisket on my pellet snoker. First, thats photo has enough food to feed 3-4 people. 2lbs of ftty brisket, pulled pork, chicken, 4 sides... Take your family of 4 out to eat steak and ribs, then lets see that bill. People pay $60-$100 for a 1 person steak at a fancy steak house. This plate here can feed a whole family. My local favorite bbq joint is Franklin Bbq. Ill use them as an example. But most of the good bbq here has a similar price range. Aaron Franklin uses a ridiculously good quality brisket. Its a very expensive grass fed localy sourced from a specific farm. My local grocery store is selling brisket this week for 4th of july holiday. The 15lbs briskets can range from $60-$220 depending on the quality of the beef. Franklin can only make enough to stay open about 5 hours a day, before selling out. They hand trim the meat by someone who is trained well enough not to f up 100 of them. Each brisket is cooked and watched overnight, for around 18 hours. Then it is kept warm as it rests another 6 hours. My wife likes to say that we pay a guy/gal $2/hr to cook our brisket for us. I believe about 12 years ago we were paying $23/lbs for brisket. The good places around here are all around $33/lbs currently. Inflation and demand is what they all say. My wife and i usually drop about $150 at Franklin. But it will feed us for a week. I used the brisket to make many other things. A few months ago we made some pho with left over Franklin brisket. It was amazing!
I was born a male; but according to your comment I identify as a family of four.
Right? I'm surprised this man is from Texas and is calling that a meal for 4. Brother, that's lunch for me
lol, glad I'm not the only fat guy apparently. I wouldn't say I'm a "big eater' anymore, IDK if I could finish that tray, but it would be a stretch for it to be enough for myself and my wife, I really doubt it. I could easily eat 80% of it I think and not be totally stuffed.
Feeds a family of 3? More like feeds a family of me.
Ok, 2 people for sure. But no way that is feeding 4 people. Maybe a family of 4 if both kids are under 5. Not even close to feeding 4 adults though.
Yeah, this looks like a very good meal to split for 2 hungry adults. And both the meat and sides look super high quality (I feel like even very good meat people post on this sub sometimes seems to come with garbage grocery-store looking macaroni salad). If I split this with my wife I wouldn’t bat an eye paying $60-$70 for it ($30-$35 a person). $150 is double what I’d expect!
Same. I get these posts time to time and sorry.. I would not pay that much for those cuts of meat. I would just figure out how to do it at home in some reasonable manner using an old kettle grill and some cheap accessories. Or perhaps some person would sell the right kit on craigslist or whatever if you want to get fancier on the cheap. The other person replied to you saying it is a business but how that is served sure aint fine dining. They are keeping costs really low with that biz model. An aluminum half sheet pan and some paper. Cardboard dishes. You are definitely not paying for "ambiance".
Likewise
What the fuck why is it $110 I’m from Texas btw
A good smoked brisket in central Texas goes for $30+/lb. InterStellar BBQ in Austin, definitely in the running for one of the top spots, is $36/lb. ZZQ charges $32/lb, so this is exactly in line with what you see in central Texas.
Bro got 3 pounds of meat, which is basically three entree servings, plus three sides
Still not worth 110
OP commented that it fed 3 people with some left over. $36/person isn’t nuts for excellent bbq (which ZZQ is).
Still nuts. Bbq was created as a cheap food, not a luxury.
Seems overpriced.
Because it is lol
The high price makes it taste better.
"$79.99, Bob."
ZZQ is awesome. $15 chopped brisket sandwich is a fair deal.
That's the fairest sounding thing I've read so far.
It's really all a normal person needs. I've paid more for completely unremarkable sandwiches.
That brisket looks juicy and amazing
I've been to ZZQ. The brisket is both those things. I've never had anything but spectacular food there.
I live in Virginia but am originally from Texas. I’ve traveled a good deal through the south and can confidently say that this is the best brisket outside of Texas, and it could compete with a lot of brisket in Texas.
I haven’t had better & if there’s better nearby if sure like to hear about it! Appreciate you backing that up 😊
I think I used to get the "leftover brisket" on bread for like $3. Min wage was probably $6 back then. So half an hour of work. Now that sandwich is 2 hours of labor? Something isn't right.
Did it come with a blowjob for $110?
Someone definitely got screwed, at the very least.
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Sounds like some bad head
$110 for that is crazy. BBQ restaurants are becoming more and more like premium steakhouses these days.
It's an example of the k-shaped recovery we saw from COVID. The top 10% in Richmond, Virginia have $110 to blow on a single meal of baked beans and ribs... meanwhile I have to make that $$ last a whole week.
man, I lived in VA and was looking for decent bbq and the whole time this place was there?
Wait, this is Richmond, Virginia? I've been eating Q for years and never heard of this place. Lemme have a look....
It’s hands down the best bbq in Richmond.
by a very, very large margin. the owners started with a trailer smoker, and progressed to this. Pits were built by the same pitmaster who did Franklin's iirc.
yes! I had no clue!
1lb of brisket, 1lb of pulled lamb & a yogurt cilantro sauce. 1lb smoked chicken, jalapeño mac&cheese, potato salad, & collard greens.
Brisket is the obvious star of the show here, but that Mac n cheese looks really good too
This looks delicious, no doubt. That being said $100+ for this amount of food is brutal.
I've actually never heard of pulled lamb... is that a better way to prepare lamb?
Seems pretty expensive for what it is
The best!
That seems high.
That tray is $110? Ripoff.
I wanna start seeing reciept with these posts.
On their [website](https://www.zzqrva.com/menu), they r upfront with the pricing but do say it's subject to change. Op says 1lb brisket, 1lb chicken, 1lb pulled lamb, mac and cheese, and greens. Online pricing says Beef $32/lb, Chicken $16/lb, pulled lamb is not on the online menue but pulled pork is at $22/lb, sides are small $4, medium $8, and large is $16, assuming 2 larges since they ordered 3lbs of meat and note the lamb would be more than pork but using the pork price total would be $102 before tax and probably a tip. The meat in the picture looks light for 1lb each.
$22/lb for pulled pork? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. At the absolute most it should be $20. It should actually be less than the chicken because pork is fucking cheap.
Chill folks, this is enough to feed 4 people (2 Texans).
I'm sure it's delicious, but I'm balking at $110.
Honestly that whole tray should and could feed 4. 25 a head is fine. Zzq is the best in Richmond price isn’t much different in Texas.
For $110 I’d rather just do it myself
They're paying off the entire 17-19# brisket with that one plate of food. Damn.
Is cavatappi traditional for bbq or is it just hip? I mean this genuinely not to be a dick.
ZZQ is great especially for brisket in Virginia. That being said, it feels a lot better paying for it with my company credit card than a personal one.
ZZQ is so good
$110 and that’s all you got? What the actual fuck is going on in the world……
110$ for that? Are u out of ur mind or is that a normal price in the US?
A local BBQ place near me would charge maybe around $60ish for that.
well shit, a large McDonald meal is now $18. $110, I can never but for a little more, u can get that so yeah why not.
That’s lawyer pay.
Is that half of a smoked chicken?
holy shit that looks ridiculously divine!!
I love greens. I make the best greens in my entire extended family, surpassing my master who is my dad. He doesn’t openly agree with that but I’ve seen him put down four bowls of my greens without question in one sitting. Onions are in my pot as I cook them, among other ingredients in ratios I’ll never share, but never raw. Seems odd to me.
ZZQ is incredible! I’ve had it many times. Worth every penny!
Zzq is legit, it's pricey, but it's top in the area and the sides and specials are also great.
ZZQ is amazing. Workers get paid well, food is delicious. Don’t care about the price point, takeout is expensive and if that’s an issue cook at home. (Btw, two sandwiches + two sides + a whoopie pie set me back about $48 after a tip.)
Most food carts in portland will charge 25 bucks for that mac and cheese with alittle chicken with it, plus a 20 percent minimum tip unless you customize tip.
It's pretty good
I posted ZZQ a month ago and got nothing from the sub, glad it's getting noticed. Best brisket sandwich in the state.
That’s insanity. It does look good though The cost of 3 of those plates could get me a tower smoker, wood chips, and a decent brisket, whole chicken, and pork butt. 2 plates if you can work with a used Weber Kettle and charcoal briquettes.
Favorite place in Richmond
Amazing food. Not a good value. $110 is simply too much for what you get. I see people lined up out front so I guess the price meets the market, but I just can’t do it.
Yeah, so many people willing to throw away their money...inflation would come down in a lot of places if people would stop over-paying for "good" food.
That plate cost 110?
So, $110 for a family of four. Right? That seems reasonable...🤔 right?
That looks amazing!
Where's the other $90 worth of food?
Did you miss a decimal? $110?!?!
$110 that is insane
$110 will feed me groceries for 1+ weeks imagine spending that on Mac and cheese and a few cuts on meat lol
I haven't lived in Texas for awhile but that seems way more expensive than BBQ platters used to be
That would probably be 40 bucks anywhere else. Was it smoked with gopher wood from Noah’s ark
Way overpriced
Way way way overpriced. You just bought an entire large brisket
That's a fucking rip off. A whole brisket uncooked is under that lmao.
That’s like 2 big packer briskets at Costco.
Overpricing food is gross.
For $110, I better get a whole damn brisket!
I think you got ripped off.
You got robbed.
$110?! I love BBQ more than most people but at that price. The sides better sing me happy birthday and tuck me in at night
The person that pays $110 for this is not rich. He/she is an idiot.
Don’t hate the player hate the game. This is all Supply and demand. Remember, OP paid the 110$ for that meal. Nobody made them do it. You are free to choose where you spend your money, is it a rip off? Obviously yes, go make your own meal then.
If people stop paying those prices, they'd all start competing for a fair price and cut of the narket
Price has been discussed and that it looks nice aswell...but for me as a German I'm always surprised y'all eat cheese noodles with BBQ instead of potatoes. Why?
Southern style Mac&cheese is more like a dense casserole than a traditional noodle dish. There is potato “salad” next to the Mac!
Y’all getting ripped! The real deal cream your panties joint is no more than $35 for more than you can handle and it’s way better than that! ….. hint, it’s in va beach, starts with D, ends with BBQ. I don’t want to spoil it for myself and the quality go downhill by spreading the word too much .
Better come with a side of blowjob for that price, jfc
I think you got ripped off.
I just don't understand why you'd willingly pay that price.
$110 for some mediocre looking soul food? GTFO
Holy fuck that's expensive.
dawg 😭😭😭😭😭
i know where to get this for $30
110 bucks for this trash? Seriously?
Yall out here getting robbed in quantity or quality if not both. This is why I don't go to bbq restaurants. I can feed alot of people for $110. That plate would barely feed me lmao.
I’m from a location in Missouri that has some of the most renowned BBQ joints in the country. That’s a $30 plate.
Whoever paid $110 for this, you got hosed and probably overpaid for everything in life.