We had a party recently that required cooking an enormous number of baby back ribs. To acquire a volume of barbeque sauce sufficient to soak all the slabs, we took a run to our nearest Costco (an hour away on the south side of Indianapolis), where thee were plenty of Kinder’s and Sweet Baby Ray’s.

While my personal taste runs more to North Carolina vinegar-based sauce, I can still swing with Texas-style, such as we have with these two. My wife, a confirmed supertaster, preferred the taste of the two mixed together. But if I had to pick just one, it would be Sweet Baby Ray’s. The taste, for me, was a bit more complex and spicy.

Knowing Costco, both might be gone by now, but I thought that much empirical data was worth sharing with the carnivores out there.