bbq sauce on short notice

[katbert]

Any suggestions on a decent bottled bbq sauce easily available tomorrow?

I'll be taking it to Vienna so no recipes please. Apparently Austrian bbq sauce is inadequate. (In addition I'll also be hauling brown sugar, pie pans, chocolate chips, peanut butter, weird fake pancake syrup stuff).

[MarketStEl]

Decent?

Available readily?

On Christmas Eve?

This might be a "Choose any two" situation.

Unfortunately, the place that I went to for good sauce--the Spice Corner in the Italian Market--no longer carries BBQ sauces. However, it might be worth calling them to see if they know of a place that still does.

If Austrian BBQ sauces are as lame as you suggest, you may even be able to get away with carrying a bottle of KC Masterpiece with you. You could do worse, and at least it's widely available. If you can find Stubb's in your supermarket, I'd try that sauce first.

[Taboni]

Hoboken Eddies Original BBq is one of my choices for a bottled sauce, although some of the other varieties are quite good as well.

Not sure where you are, but there is a store in Blue Bell that carries his line.

[Holly Moore]

Ron's Ribs on the 1600 block of South Street sells their excellent sauce. Don't know if they're open Christmas Eve, though.

[marinade]

Food Source in Bryn Mawr usually has a set of sauces and rubs on the shelf. Call first, could be seasonal thing, though not for me. I have a line on 8 venison tonight that will be great for my smoker. Only problem is figuring a way to get them off my roof. Rumor has it they're a part of a once-a-year-delivery service run by a fat guy in a red suit.

Happy Holidays and enjoy the sachre tortes.

[mrbigjas]

damn, i'm sorry i'm too late for this, katbert. but for future reference: oddly enough, strawbridge's food court area carries several really decent bbq sauces, including stubbs' from austin.

[herbacidal]

That's not entirely suprising. I think it's an underappreciated food retailer that gets lost in the midst of everything else.

That it doesn't do any advertisements, PR or anything to draw attention to itself doesn't help.

[MarketStEl]

That's not entirely suprising.  I think it's an underappreciated food retailer that gets lost in the midst of everything else.

That it doesn't do any advertisements, PR or anything to draw attention to itself doesn't help.

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I'm assuming you're referring to the Food Hall at Strawbridge's 8th and Market.

If so: I agree with your assessment and still lament that what's there now is a mere shadow of what it was when the Strawbridges were still in charge. I think the problem is that this sort of operation is somewhat foreign to American department stores--from what I understood, Stockton Strawbridge got the idea for putting one in his family's flagship store after visiting London and being wowed by the famous Food Hall at Harrods--and most US department store operators really don't feel comfortable running a food market.

Aside from seasonal gift items, I do not recall food for home consumption being sold at any other May Department Stores chain. I suspect that May keeps Strawbridge's Food Hall alive in its current shrunken state because it learned from slightly painful experience what happens when an outsider comes in and immediately starts mucking around with a Philadelphia tradition. And even though it's not even a quarter century old yet, IIRC, the Food Hall at Strawbridge's had already become one by the time May took over the store.