Pappy’s Traditional Smoke Hoose

I hope this place isn’t open any more because it was bloody dire. The food was some of the worst I’ve ever experienced — flabby, pale chicken wings, floppy onion rings, rank, frozen burger and everything drenched in enough cajun seasoning to choke a horse. Truly abysmal.

Heard about the new place in Wishaw that was doing BBQ style food, and being almost local to me (well, closer than Glasgow, anyway) I swung by to give it a go.
I was there just after opening, so there was some things that weren’t quite ready yet, no big deal but take note! What was ready, was the smell… the smell wafting over the counter into the shop was astounding. It made me even more hungry than I was.
I resisted the burger, as I just wanted to try something different from the seemingly never ending stream of burgers I seem to have been subjected to recently, but did note there was a lot of different options for burgers and fillings. As I said, the pulled pork wasn’t quite on yet, or I would have had a pulled pork roll — so I went for a Flaming Dawg.
This is a 9 inch hot dog, in a baguette, smothered in a Ghost Chilli Cheese sauce, something I don’t remember coming across before. Perhaps foolishly, I was offered extra jalapenos, and I accepted. I also got a can of throwback Pepsi (made with REAL sugar!) to wash it down with.
There’s a couple of seats in the shop to eat at, but I was heading for a train (bound for nowhere, or Lanark as the locals call it) so I scuttled off with my bag in hand and nostrils full of BBQ smell.
I have to say, the cheese sauce was lovely and smooth, and the ghost chilli through did give it some heat. It perhaps wasn’t as hot as I was expecting, but there was a definite after glow from it. The dog itself was as nice as I’ve had in a long time, and I’ll definitely be back for another one in the future, but with the standard chilli and cheese topping.
I’ll give Pappy’s a three, more like three and a half, and if the BBQ pork tastes halfway as good as it smells, the rating will go up the next time I visit.
It’s nice to see something so different opening up outside of Glasgow or Edinburgh too. More of this!