In this week's episode of Taste of the Town Tim Dutton visits the Slick Pig Barbeque located on East Main Street in Murfreesboro. Tim interviews the owner, John Robinson, and samples some of Slick Pig's more popular dishes including their BBQ, ribs, and their most popular meal, their smoked chicken wings.

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TIM:  Tim Dutton here with another edition of Taste of the Town.  Folks, today I’m sitting at the Slick Pig with owner, John Robinson.  John, thank you for having us today.

JOHN:  Well, you’re welcome.

TIM:  Man, I’ve been looking forward to this one because this is not my first trip as far as eating your food, man.  And it is always delicious.

JOHN:  We appreciate it.

TIM:  John, you want to tell folks a little bit about where you’re located first of all.

JOHN:  Okay.  We’re down here about a mile from MTSU going away from the square, and it’s 1920 East Main Street.  We’ve been here for 15 years, started in 1995.  Our hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 8, closed on Sunday and Monday.  We’ve been doing this for a long time.

TIM:  And been doing it right for a long time.

JOHN:  We appreciate that.

TIM:  Yeah, you guys have exploded in business.  Some of the things I wanted to talk to you about today, you guys make your own potato salad, coleslaw.

JOHN:  Everything’s homemade.  We do it right here every day.  We’ve got a couple of women who make the potato salad homemade.  We’ve got the coleslaw.  It’s homemade, special ingredients in there.  These right here.  We’ve got a BBQ sandwich on garlic toast.  We sell a lot of them.  Now we’ve got the ribs right here.  We sell a bunch of them.  We’ve got a Friday special on them for $12.99 for a whole rack, guaranteed to be satisfied on them.

The hickory smoked wings right here, we sell a bunch of them.  That is our biggest seller right there.  We marinade them and smoke them, and we’ve got a special seasoning that we marinade them in.  And we’ve been selling a bunch of them.

TIM:  John, nothing that you guys do comes in pre-packed.  I just took a bite of the potato salad and the coleslaw and it’s all done…

JOHN:  It’s authentic.  It’s like your personalities up here.  It’s authentic.  We’ve got everything.  It comes in not on a truck.  We get it and we start making it every day.  We get here at five in the morning, and we’ll start working on all the prep stuff at five in the morning, and that will last all day long.  If we run out at 5:00 tonight, we’ve got a lady that makes it from 5:00 to 8:00, and it’s all done homemade, fresh every day.

TIM:  I’ll tell you what, man.  I’d hate to waste any of this.  I know you have accidents with the bibs, but it didn’t seem to go to the shirt.

JOHN:  Hey, that’s a new idea right there.  Get some bibs, Slick Pig BBQ.

TIM:  That is good.  And the wings…And you guys cater too.

JOHN:  Yeah.  We do a lot of catering.

TIM:  Because I’ve been to several different events and stuff.

JOHN:  And they’ve had our food?

TIM:  And they’ve had your food, and these things go like crazy.

JOHN:  Yeah, they do.  We sell them, Tim, by the thousands.  And I’ll tell you what, we’ve had so many compliments on them wings.  And I mean, every day smoking thousands of these things.  I mean, like today, we’ll go through 5,000 wings on a Thursday.

TIM:  That’s how popular they are.

JOHN:  That’s how popular they are.  From big businesses to small businesses, the little company picnics, 10 or 15 people.

TIM:  Yeah.

JOHN:  Fifty people, luncheons for their work.  Weddings.  We cater all these things right here.  And I mean, they go out of here.  Once they get them, they come out.  Try them ribs right there.

TIM:  I was going to say they do.  And John, I don’t know that I’ve ever tried your ribs.

JOHN:  I’ll tell you what.  Them things are just tender as they can be.

TIM:  Whoo! 

JOHN:  And that right there.  That will win first prize at the county fair.

TIM:  And John, you guys have daily lunch specials.

JOHN:  Yes, we do.

TIM:  You want to tell folks a little bit about them?

JOHN:  We’ve got the No. 3 lunch special every day.  That’s a pork sandwich, drink, and bag of chips, and small baked beans.  That’s for $4.99.  That’s every day, all day long, even at night.  We’ve got a No. 2 lunch special that comes with two sandwiches.  That’s BBQ pork, chips, and a sweet tea.  I believe that one’s $5.50.  That’s every day as well.

We’ve got a Brunswick stew coming out of Georgia.  It’s like a soup, but that’s made with pork, beef, chicken, tomatoes, and corn.  It’s like a soup, a thick soup.  And that comes with garlic bread or cornbread.  And that’s done homemade.  And that right there is $2.95.

TIM:  Now John, is it on Tuesday night that you’ve got your 99-cent specials on the sandwiches?

JOHN:  Well, the 99-cent BBQ sandwich is all day long.  It starts at 11 and ends at 8:00.

TIM:  And that’s every Tuesday?

JOHN:  Every Tuesday, yep.

TIM:  Folks, that’s a no-brainer.  Come on down.

JOHN:  That’s right.

TIM:  It is a complete no-brainer.  Come on down here to where East Main Street tris to turn into Woodbury Highway and get you a 99-cent BBQ sandwich.  John, do you have a special for the people that come in and say they saw it on Taste of the Town?

JOHN:  Yeah, if they come in and say they seen it on Taste of the Town, we’re going to give them 10% off.  If they just mention they seen this on Taste of the Town, we’ll give them 10% off their meal.  And that’s a no-brainer as well.  It’s very simple around here.

TIM:  Well, you need to for me to keep up, man.  Well, listen guys, it will not be a waste of your time to come down here and see John and try some of this delicious food, if you haven’t.  And if you’re a regular customer, come on down and get 10% off.  And remember, if you’re thinking real estate, think Tim Dutton.