New tourism video on Kansas barbecue comes with a warning: Don’t watch hungry
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Kansas Tourism is showcasing the state’s barbecue in a new video, with six places around the state, including Jones Bar-B-Q in Kansas City, Kansas.
But it has an advisory for “The Smoke Show: A Story of Kansas BBQ”: Don’t watch when you are hungry.
“Of course we would say Kansas barbecue is the best. And I’m talking about all the restaurants together. … Wonderful pitmasters here. And they be doin’ it, they be doin’ it,” said Mary “Shorty” Jones, owner of Jones Bar-B-Q with her sister, Deborah “Little” Jones. “We love Memphis barbecue. We love you. But you can’t get it nowhere else like Kansas.”
The video is the fifth in the tourism division’s Story Series.
The barbecue operations share some things that have made them successful — cooking low and slow, offering consistency and plenty of fresh meat in Kansas “beef country.”
▪ Stan Englert, owner of The Ole Cook Shack BBQ food truck in Syracuse in southwest Kansas, said he always wanted a job where people are happy, and when he’s serving his barbecue, people are happy.
Luther’s BBQ in Fort Scott is “home of the beef flavored marshmallows.” It said its burnt ends are as tender as marshmallows.
Other Kansas barbecues featured by Kansas Tourism, a division of the Kansas Department of Commerce:
▪ Billy Sims BBQ, Hays.
▪ Bite Me Barbecue & Catering, Marysville.
▪ Roy’s Hickory Pit BBQ, Hutchinson.
“Kansas is known worldwide for our BBQ and the pit masters in ‘The Smoke Show’ highlight some of the best our state has to offer,” David Toland, who is both lieutenant governor and state commerce secretary, said in a statement. “In towns of all sizes, all across our state, there are great places to visit and delicious eats to be had. The Story Series is a unique and exciting way to lift up those stories and let people know that if they aren’t exploring Kansas, they are missing out.”
The Kansas Tourism Division also has done video features on the Cosmosphere, Union Horse Distilling Co., mountain biking at Wilson State Park and Kansas by Ron Wilson, Kansas poet lariat.
This story was originally published June 14, 2022 at 10:09 AM with the headline "New tourism video on Kansas barbecue comes with a warning: Don’t watch hungry."
