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Abe's BBQ in Clarksdale, Mississippi is one of those places that instantly takes you back to a time and place that stays original in some of the best ways possible. Pulled pork. Tamales. Cried chicken. An unforgettable, subtle.
Barbecue sauce. It all started here in 1924. Found By Abraham Davis. I was hoping you'd ask me the question, but that's a pat. I'll try to do that.
I'm not as good as my dad. This is Pat Davis. Abraham's grandson, and the current owner of Abe's BBQ. My grandfather was an immigrant from Lebanon. Came over around 1900.
He was 14 years old. and he came with his two younger siblings. That was it. In the bottom of a a Freighter, I guess, or with the cows and the goats and the bottom, he would go upstairs and get food and bring it down to his younger brothers. Sister.
then he somehow got To North Mississippi, I know I don't know how that happened. Um As he got a little bit older, he started peddling. to the uh farm workers. On horseback, he'd take 'em linen and socks. Dresses, just different things.
I've heard this from my grandmother and my father. In nineteen twenty four, He started. Yeah. One name's barbecue, it was Delta N. But it was actually just a barbecue shack, a one-room deal.
on 4th Street and Florida, that was intersection. Um sometimes in the I guess it was in the 40s. That was the main drag that he was on. They moved it to where we are now. The main drag came sort of like a bypass.
So he moved. from the Fourth Street location to this location here. And They built this building. This is the second building on this lot. It was built in 1959.
So we've been in this building since 1959, on this lot since the mid-40s from what I've heard. Located at the intersection of Highways 49 and 61, This is one of several places in the state of Mississippi believed by many to be Robert Johnson's legendary Crossroads. Which brings in tourists by the bus load. People from all over the world. I mean, it is amazing to see the folks that do come through.
Clarksdale isn't just a tourist attraction. It's a real place. and so was Abe's barbecue. Pat Davis was raised in this restaurant. when his dad was in charge.
I mean, he would leave me here with um Two guys. back I guess I would have been In the early 70s, I was 11. 12 years old and we doll. They took care of me like uncles, and we'd run the place by ourselves. This was in the afternoon when dad would go home and take a break.
He would work in the morning and come back in the evening. It's not uncommon to see a customer loading up on a case of Apes barbecue sauce. They sell it at the counter. and you can buy it online at AbesBarbecue.com. It makes for some of the best pulled pork sandwiches you've ever had.
We cook with um Pecan wood. Try to use pecan all the time, you know, like a hickory. True. And it's hard to get hickory here. We do have a lot of pecans, we have pecan orchards, so it's easier to get pecan wood.
And I think that the difference, I mean you could cook barbecue at your house over a smoker, I can cook it in my house over a smoker. That's basically the same, you know. But the barbecue sauce is where it's different, I think. Our sauce is on the tangy side, it's not sweet. Um I mean, people just tend to gravitate towards it.
They like it. I know mother. Most do. And I have people that don't like it. I had a guy come in a couple of months ago from Memphis and he's never been through here, ate it.
I didn't like it, didn't like it at all.
So I didn't even, I just didn't charge him.
So he left. Promise you came back within like 10 days. He said, Man, I don't know what it is. It hit me. He said, A couple days ago, I got to get one more of those things.
He said, He came back and paid for the one he ate. I didn't charge him for it, too. Yeah, it was. It was a pretty cute story. Abe's also has some incredible tamales.
It's a staple here in Mississippi. from generations of Mexican labor. They'd made them and sold them in little pushbuggies. Daddy did tell me that. down the city streets.
And um I guess maybe when they went home during the off season people Missed them.
So, my grandfather apparently learned how to make it from someone, and he makes we make them now.
Well, we don't actually make them now, we have someone make them for us, and we cook them here, we get them here. But we have made them back in the Mid-70s to in about the middle 80s, but it was a job. And then the guy that was making them. back here with us. couldn't make them anymore, so we just found someone to make them for us.
Mississippi being the clash of cultures that it sometimes is. The founder of ABES did the right thing. A group of young black students were sent, but were coming to restaurants. And if They came to Abe's and grandfather let them in. Most other restaurants did not let him in, and I think the other Lebanese family at Rest Haven let him in their restaurant.
And dad said, They were the only two restaurants in town that weren't in a lawsuit. I think we get along really well in this town. You know, people may say, you know, it's a lot of racism. I mean, I'm sure you have your pockets of trouble, but. Overall, Clarksdale has a really good-hearted.
community. All of them, you know. I've moved off before. But it's not home. I mean, when you come back, it's still, I can go to Walmart, man, I just love to see people.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. You know everybody. You know them or you know somebody in the family. Wintertime is good because we've got a lot of hunters coming in and family. Families coming back for Thanksgiving with their families, you know, to be with their parents or grandparents.
So, the holidays are good, hunting season is good. We have downtime when the farmers start getting in the field here in another week or two.
Well, they would like to be there another week or two and have rain for another week or two. When the farmers start planting, we slow down because they're. Canned a cant. And then it gets better for us in the summertime because they sort of laid back on the farming part. Then when they start harvesting, we get slow again.
Back to that regular cycle hunting season starts back up, holidays start piling on, so we pick back up again. Yeah, business has been good. I think tourism has been A boom for this place. If it wasn't for tourism, I think it'd be a lot different. That's what I'm seeing.
I mean, when it first started 20 years ago, I said, why would people want to come here? But they started and they haven't stopped and it's gotten more and more. Or just please. Every year we have a, well we've had it for the last seeming like 20 years, a juke joint festival in April. And They send a group four or five bands that play at different intervals outside, and we have people outside.
A couple years ago it was raining. The first group went outside, started raining, they had to move inside.
Well, the room. that they came to was only they had to put their band in was was probably fourteen by twenty four. And it was in the end of the restaurant.
Well They still had to, for some reason, they couldn't modify their amps. They had to leave everything on like it was outside. It was the loudest packed house I've ever seen in my life. I mean, people were standing up in this room. Everything was full, just a stand-up room only.
And the band was so loud, I don't know how they could even, the people, you couldn't get away from the noise because it was just too small of an area. That was unique when it happened. to us. We don't have that much happen like that. We had no other plan.
There's no other way to to let them play.
So we had four bands playing it in here. It's full throttle. in a small room. Visit Abe's Barbecue in Clarksdale, Mississippi at the crossroads of U.S. 49 and 61.
For Our American Stories, I'm Jesse Edwards. And great job as always, Jesse. And you were listening to Pat Davis. And he's the grandson of Abraham, who started Abe's Barbecue, and it's an institution in northern Mississippi. Everyone thinks it's the best.
Well, actually, I do. And everybody argues about what the best barbecue is. And well, in this one, we don't do a lot of opinions on this show, but I'm right. And because it's Lebanese, probably I have a little bit of bias. And by the way, Lebanese people found their way up and down the Mississippi River, so too did Jews, and that was to trade, to peddle, to make a buck.
And to call this great new place, America, their homes. Abe's BBQ. The story of a family business, a multi-generational family business. This is our American story. Tired of spills and stains on your sofa?
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