Jiggs Smoke House

Clinton, Clinton, OK - (580) 323-5641

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Posted By Michael Stern on June 7, 2008 2:14 PM

Jiggs is a big shack by the side of the old Mother Road through Oklahoma. It has a front porch for settin’ a spell, and interior accommodations that include two construction spools transformed into eating surfaces, as well as some kitchenette tables in a small annex near the meat counter. Wood-paneled walls are decorated with patrons’ business cards, a jackalope head, and odes to meat-eaters’ heroes John Wayne, Bob Wills, and Marty Robbins. Washrooms are labeled “Toms” and “Hens.” The whole restaurant is perfumed by the tantalizing smell of smoke and meat.

In the meat case are hams, slab bacon, and summer sausage that proprietor George Klaassen smokes over slow-smoldering hickory, as well as big flaps of beef jerky that have been marinated in a brown sugar-pepper mix, smoked, then air-dried to the point of supreme chewyness. The jerky is rugged stuff and intensely flavored – one good slab is tastebud-entertainment for a long day’s drive.

Although much business is smoked-meat-by-the-pound sold over the counter, the tables are occupied at lunch and through the afternoon with customers who come for beef barbecue bathed in splendid spicy-sweet sauce, as well as sandwiches dubbed pigsickle. These are broad patties of mesquite-smoked boneless pork rib infused with sauce, topped with melted cheddar cheese, dressed with mustard and mayonnaise, and hefted into a five-inch bun. Meals are served on butcher paper with a paper napkin underneath rather than on plates. This is a practical presentation, because when you are done you can easily wrap up all your drippings and, while doing so, be wiping spilled sauce off your fingers.

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Posted By Rain Welch on June 22, 2011 4:10 PM

If you leave here hungry, it's your own fault. The food is delicious and plentiful, worth driving far for. In fact, I plan on doing just that, very soon. The Wooly Burger is piled high with ham; you can't even close your mouth around it, it's so huge.

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