{"id":309,"date":"2006-07-06T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-05-28T00:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:45:29","slug":"big-bubbas-bad-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2006\/07\/big-bubbas-bad-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bubba&#8217;s Bad BBQ at the Alameda County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamedacountyfair.com\/\">Alameda County Fair<\/a> every year since our oldest girl was born. The kids love seeing the animals and the rides, and we all enjoy the concerts.\u00a0\u00a0 Some highlights have been\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/officialvillagepeople.com\/\">The Village People<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KC_and_the_Sunshine_Band\">K.C. and the Sunshine Band<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashmouth.com\/\">Smashmouth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdal.com\/\">Weird A<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t been particularly impressed with food at the fair, however. It&#8217;s expensive, of course, (drinks in particular), but it&#8217;s also not that great. The funnel cakes are OK &#8211; but not worth the calories, and the hot dogs are just hot dogs, edible but safe. Among the poor choices, <strong>Big Bubba&#8217;s Bad BBQ<\/strong> seems like the best.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve tried their <strong>BBQ beef<\/strong> and their <strong>Tri-Tip sandwiches<\/strong> and <strong>grilled chicken<\/strong>. None of these items have been remarkable, and the chicken can be particularly dry.\u00a0 The <strong>pork ribs<\/strong> are a better choice, with tender, smokey meat.\u00a0 Their mild BBQ sauce is quite good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Bubba&#8217;s Bad BBQ<\/strong><br \/>\nAlameda County Fairgrounds<br \/>\n4501 Pleasanton Ave<br \/>\nPleasanton, CA<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbubbasbadbbq.com\/\">http:\/\/www.bigbubbasbadbbq.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/venue\/\">Marga&#8217;s Venue Dining Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been going to the Alameda County Fair every year since our oldest girl was born. The kids love seeing the animals and the rides, and we all enjoy the concerts.\u00a0\u00a0 Some highlights have been\u00a0 The Village People, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Smashmouth and Weird Al. We haven&#8217;t been particularly impressed with food at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[346,151],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairs-festivals","tag-alameda-county-fair","tag-bbq","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}