{"id":94383,"date":"2018-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=94383"},"modified":"2023-09-23T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T01:13:34","slug":"salt-lick-bbq-in-driftwood-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/salt-lick-bbq-in-driftwood-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94953\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-4-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-4-of-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-4-of-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-4-of-5-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94963\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-5-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-5-of-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-5-of-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-5-of-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salt-lick-5-of-5-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One hundred and forty four people live in Driftwood, Texas. At any given moment, visitors to Driftwood&#8217;s Salt Lick BBQ outnumber the residents: cash in hand, waiting in line for their turn for pork, bison, and beef ribs basted with their signature pecan sauce, their tender brisket, coleslaw flecked with mustard, thick slices soft white bread with a generous sifting of sesame seeds on top, and slabs of pie and warm cobbler, nestled with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. On the weekends, there&#8217;s a bonus menu with items not on offer during the week with a down-home comfort food feel, like scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole. On our BBQ tour of Texas, Salt Lick was Jason&#8217;s favorite&#8211;he really dug the bison ribs and he&#8217;s also a big fan of the pecan sauce, so much so that we ordered some to try in tandem with our new smoker. Now to find a bison rib supplier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,513,403,102,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-masticating-with-mellzah-2","category-south","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, TX &#8226; Mellzah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/salt-lick-bbq-in-driftwood-tx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, TX &#8226; 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