Kentucky Q

I was in Bowling Green today, and stopped at an unusual place called Jimmy Diemer's. It's a combination gas station/grocery store/barbeque pit. For eight dollars, I had some thick pork chops, homemade potato salad, a container of Karo-pecan cobbler and a bottle of water. It's unusual, in that most of the barbeque has been packaged and put into a reach-in refrigerator for take-home. It's easily accessible from I-65, and to top it all off, the gas was only about $1.25.

Pete,
And to think that you only scratched the surface on good Q in Boring Green! - Jimmy Diemer's is right at the junction of Scottsville Road and KY. 622, if I remember right - away from town from the Interstate exit. Now, if you had gotten off at the other exit - U. S. 31-W up by the Corvette plant on the way toward Louisville, then come back in towards town, you would have passed The Smoky Pig. That's a good place, from what everyone told me. I never have eaten there - but I think The Sterns have.
I have been to a place in town just a couple of blocks over from the Salvation Army store on I believe it is Clay Street. It's a mom-and-pop eatery that has barbecue on the menu, but not exclusively so. Theirs was extraordinary on corn bread - that flat kind you get in those parts.
There's another place over on U. S. 62 west toward Russellville... a mile or two out of town. Sorry I can't remember the names of these places, but at least the next time you're through 'Vette City, you'll know at least to stop, check through the phone book, and see if my memory is still what it used to be when I travelled those roads with regularity in the mid-1980's.
Hungrily Submitted, Ort. Carlton in Roadfood-Filled Athens, Georgia.

Are you thinking of Bob's Smokehouse on 68? I drove past it today, but didn't have to stop. I did find time to stop at the Woodshed in Hopkinsville, one of my favorite eateries.

Pete,
I bet you money that's it. The place claims to be the farthest Southern outpost of burgoo: I had a bowl of it there, and it was FEISTY!! - They used to do barbecued mutton, they told me, but not enough people down Bowling Green way appreciated it. "You won't regret making the trek up to Owensboro," the lady there told me. "It's well worth the drive."
Fifteen + years later and I still have yet to make that jaunt. Hmm. Sounds like a good idea, come cooler weather. Remind me to stop off at the St. Vincent de Paul store in Bowling Green: every time I ever went there, I found enough treasure to make my day. (Or should I have mentioned that at the "Roadfood And Thrift Stores" thread instead?)
Burgooily Muttonering And About To Be Dipping Over Blackwards, Ort. Carlton in Absolutely Muttonless, Barbecied-Lamb-Free Athens, Georgia.

There is at least one place south of there that sells burgoo. It's at the Ole South barbeque pit off of exit 86 on I-24 in Kentucky. It wasn't all that good. If you pass through Nashville on your way to Owensboro, stop and pick me up. Nothin says lovin', like mutton in the oven, and Owensboro says it best.

I live in Bowling Green. Drop me a note or look me up in the book and I'll try to steer you right. BBQ places come and go. Right now my favorite is a little stand on the street corner with the cooker outside.