text: Fastservice BBQ places abound in just about every town and city and they all deliver pretty much the same menu BBQ brisket pulled pork chicken sometimes ribs and burgers Toms is the same Usually the ambiance is booths and plain tablesandchairs Often you order at a counter and they bring you the food Toms is the same Prices are usually a bit more than fast food but not as much as regular sitdown restaurants You guessed it Toms is the samennBut this Toms has a problem Consider the brisket platter for about which consists of brisket a biscut and a side What could be so bad Well it was the brisket The portion consisted of about ounces maybe of meat utterly covered in a sweet BBQ sauce not cooked with the sauce just inundated with it Ok scrape it off you will suggest So I did What was underneath was small slices entirely from the fatty part of the brisket Half of my small portion of meat was fat and not crispy tasty fat but soggy discouraging muck The pictures on the wall showed lots of lean slices from the first cut of the brisket misleading or downright fraudulent Now I see why they put ounces of BBQ sauce on ounces of meatnnI notice that the rest of our group of six was eating their food mostly but without any outward signs of real pleasure That at least was comforting misery loves company