If a restaurant has artificial plants, the food will be crap.

— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) January 29, 2020

Usually true!

But with a big exception. False for barbecue places in the South. There, the worse the decor, preferably from the 1980s or 1990s and never updated, the better the food. In fact, the best barbecue is often purchased from a battered smoker in an abandoned K-Mart parking lot from someone who doesn’t look like they’ve bathed in the past year or so. You see that, you pull over, you buy some. It’ll be the best barbecue you’ve ever tasted.