A few years back, I was at SXSW music festival in Austin, Tejas, bouncing around from daytime party to daytime party, soaking up the sunshine and free sponsored booze when I happily came across a launch party for the newfangled Filter magazine at Stubbs BBQ. Now anyone who knows Austin knows Stubbs. Anyone who’s stared at the artisan BBQ sauces in his or her local supermarket probably knows Stubbs. Not really a great place for vegetarians, unless you’re starving and there’s a magazine sponsored free spread (and bottomless Lone Stars to literally boot).
Working with what few vegetarian fixins were on hand, I constructed a sandwich for the ages. There’s not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. Here it is:
- 2 slices of big ol’ Texas toast
- Stubbs BBQ sauce
- thinly sliced onions
- pickled chili peppers of some sort (looked like orange cayenne)
- Stubbs potato salad (the mustardy kind with a touch of sweet)
Throw everything together between two slices of bread and you’re good to go. It’s not on the menu, and I’m sure you’d get a strange look from the waitstaff if you tried to order it, but I highly recommend it — the perfect blend of soft and crisp, sweet, sour and spicy. I might point out that I’m no taker of weed, so this is definitely not merely reefer induced goodness.
Don’t forget about the veggie tacos across the street from Emo’s while you’re at SXSW. As far as I can tell, the truck disappears at all other times of the year, but it is an utter fixture during the festival. Can an Austonian please comment on where that heavenly truck disappears to?
