Biggs BBQ: May Day! May Day!

  There he is: Al "Heisenberg" sporting an official Breaking Bad t-shirt with the aforementioned alter ego screen printed on the front tearing up some drummies at Biggs BBQ.  That look of elation like the one he has when he cooks a 98% pure batch of crystal blue meth will be short lived. 

 

Biggs BBQ is located on the West side of Iowa street just past the 23rd street / Clinton Parkway intersection, Chili's, Saints Pub, etc. in a shopping/business strip.  Having wings there is a new experience for all of us.  We are accustomed to eating their BBQ whether it be sandwiches, ribs, brisket, etc. but not their wings.  And, they actually do not have wings by what you think of in the traditional sense of the word.  They only serve the drummies or drummettes.  We asked what happens to the wingettes but no one had an answer.  It doesn't matter to me; I prefer the drummettes anyway so I am golden!  Nancee was screwed though - ha ha.  According to our rules, it is fine to serve only one kind but proportion to size still applies.  And that is where it turns a little weird.

 

That plate of Al's pictured above is full of really healthy drummies but mine were pretty scrawny (I didn't take a picture: I know, I know: FAIL).  6 out of my 8 drummies were broken bones, which means they were small and got overcooked a lot.  Either that or my waitress, Journey, and the cooks really hated me for some reason.  Everyone's plate of drummies looked like Al's, just not mine.  When you calculate all the wings we ate and how many were broken, they're still no where as bad as Saints Pub and Grill just across the parking lot, but 19% broken wings is still BAD (Saints had at least 30% when we stopped counting/tracking).   

 

What else can we say?  The texture and tenderness was way off.  They lacked the crispy outside we like because they are not flash fried after being smoked.  Several were over smoked or cooked.  How do you know?  Just by looking at them.  When the skin and meat draw way up on the bone that is indicating to you that the moisture is being drawn up out of the meat.  When smoking you do want a little draw but not a lot.  Some of these had the skin/meat drawn up almost half way on the bone.  When you bite into them it is confirmed. 

 

And the flavor?  "Meh" is what we say.  We tried all variety of sauces and styles.  The hot is hot - that's a plus. Flavor, even though the most heavily weighted at 60% of the overall score, would not overcome the texture and tenderness category.    

 

So given all this, Biggs BBQ scored an abysmal 4.275.  Yep, that's not a type-o, an horrendously bad total score of a 4.275 out of a possible 10. 

 

But don't take our words for it.  Drummies come in orders of 4 ($4.99) or 8 ($8.99) in mild, hot, or BBQ and Monday's are half price.  Or do take our word for it, order up a slab of ribs, and feel satisfied.  Your choice.   Our opinion:  These birds crashed and burned!