Memphis…cool fucking city
Mrs Nacho and I drove down on Tuesday to see a show at the Orpheum Theatre and came back home on Thursday.
I’ve been to Memphis twice before but only to go to Graceland. The ex-Mrs Nacho grew up about 45 minutes north of there.
The band we went to see was Lake Street Dive and after buying tickets found out the opener is a band called The Dip. I was The Dip in Lexington in 2019 at a music festival. Being the homer I am, I wore a UW shirt and was apparently visible to the band on stage. Later that night, I walk past a couple dudes and the say “go dWags”. I talk to them and they say “we saw you from the stage earlier today” Turns out at least a few of them went to UW and might even know @MelloDawg
On the drive down, I remembers @dnc lives or lived near Memphis so I sent a DM asking for food recommendations. @dnc’s enthusiasm for Memphis BBQ is close to my enthusiasm for nachos.
We ended up going to 2 of the BBQ places he recommended. I’ve never had the meat sweats before but I think I came really close after the first place.
Spent Wednesday being tourists and went to The National Civil Rights Museum located at the place where MLK was killed. That was a sobering experience and was well worth the time and money.
We walked in Memphis including going down Beale Street which to me, was a JV version of Broadway in Nashville. We went through there late afternoon and it was ok and not impressive enough for me to want to go back that evening.
I was thinking about crossing into Mississippi and seeing if anyone there knew @SECDAWG but we decided to get back home.
I leave you with pictures of Memphis BBQ
Second picture is the combo platter at Central BBQ. That’s allegedly 4 oz of each meat.