Don't fool yourselves about Texas Q ...

it may be true that you can go to any old place in Texas and
get decent stuff, whereas if you try elsewhere (Massachusetts!)
your chances of passing success are way less. But the best I've
had hasn't been in Texas, not by a long shot. For example, what
I had at the "Texas-style" place in Anacortes, Washington beat
anything I've seen from Dallas to Luling (except for the chicken,
but then chicken is to bbq as diet coke is to wine).