Barbecue—or Bar-B-Q, or BBQ, if you prefer—is a funny thing in Oklahoma: it’s not just the food and smoke you have to watch out for.
Take Swadley’s, for example. Their food is tolerable, but their loudly right-leaning evangelical political leanings—and penchant for grifting—ruins the meal, making it taste like leftover pig snouts.
Edge Craft, on the other, gives no indication to its allegiances other than an American flag and a few other decor items, making its excellent BBQ taste even better.
That’s why whenever I visit a local BBQ spot, I always make sure to look for weird signs, leaflets, literature, and comic-style tracts of caricatured politicians before declaring my love. It’s also why I was relieved to see that at Bedlam Bar-B-Q, 610 NE 50th St, the only nuts going here were the warring factions on the football field.
Well, at least that’s what I thought.