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Slap's BBQ Tops a Readers' Poll of Kansas City-Style Barbecue

Nine of the top 10 in USA Today's 10Best vote are in the two Kansas Citys; the other is in Napa.

Slap's BBQ in Kansas City, Kansas, was voted the best Kansas City-style barbecue spot in the country in the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice poll, KCTV5 reported on November 6. Rosedale Bar-B-Q, also in Kansas City, Kansas, was second and Q39 in Kansas City, Missouri, third.

The rest of the top 10, in order: Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que, Wolfpack BBQ & Burgers, Arthur Bryant's Barbeque, Jack Stack BBQ, Stateline Road Smokehouse in Napa, California, Gates Bar-B-Q and Woodyard Bar-B-Que. Four of the 10 are in Kansas, five in Missouri.

"To everyone who voted, waited in line, and shared a plate with us ... thank you," Slap's posted on social media. The result is a readers' vote, not a judged contest.

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