#TheRootTrip: Try the Pig Ear Sandwich at the Big Apple Inn, Home of Authentic Southern Cooking in Miss.

You can’t visit Jackson, Miss., a surprisingly progressive city in a very conservative state, without checking out the Big Apple Inn Restaurant on 509 N. Farish St. A delightful hole in the wall that reeks of old, black Mississippi, the Big Apple Inn has become a darling of television shows looking for authentic, unfiltered, black Southern cooking.

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Their most famous items are their version of tamales, “smokes,” which are chopped smoked sausage sandwiches of varying heat, and the pièce de résistance, their pig ear sandwich.

Now … I’m a man who will try anything once, so I decided to try both a smoke and a pig ear sandwich. I’m a fan of one … and let’s just say … not a big fan of the other. But I encourage you to visit the Big Apple Inn for yourself and give the pig ear sandwich a try. Who knows? Maybe it’ll be your new favorite.