(Throughout the month of February, every Thursday TLO will celebrate and highlight various Black-owned eateries across the OKC Metro. – Louis)
It was all a pork and dream, I used to read Bon Appétit magazine…and even in the most fevered of those nocturnal missions, I never once encountered the rumbly-tumbly meat-machine that is the Rollie Ollie.
The pride and joy of Big O’s Pork and Dreams, 285 S. Santa Fe Ave. in Edmond—a somewhat new BBQ place in a town I very rarely, if ever, get down in—my stamina in the face of the Rollie Ollie quickly dwindled. One hand on the table and the other on my fork, I inconspicuously let out a minor series of yelps until I pushed the substantial sandwich away, utterly defeated.
Ran by a former Edmond teacher, Big O’s started off as a family food-truck and eventually became popular enough to open up a busy storefront that relied on handed-down recipes that seemed to strike the right sauce-covered nerves with the BBQ-starved suburb, visions of briskets and ribs dancing in their hungry heads.