Beach BBQ

In three easy pieces, the line, even the employees eat there, and the catch phrase?

“I didn’t claw my to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.”

About sums it up.

Pick up mostly to-go stuff, brisket, sausage, turkey, and their creamed corn, by the quart. But in passing? That’s a half pound of pork ribs, or so, and some jalapeños — an almost perfect way to say hello to the beach.

While Rudy’s is a chain, this particular store is outstanding, might have a little something to do with its address, along SPID — South Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi, perhaps a little heavy with the historical Spanish Catholicism, but that goes with the area: the Devil’s Elbow, the Texas Coastal Bend.

That is some serviceable good BBQ.

Good in a beach front condo and good on a boat. Hey, I’m on boat!