Wobbly Boots BBQ: Memorial Day

Friday, May 27, 2016

Historical Facts About Memorial Day

You may be making plans to take advantage of your 3-day weekend by ordering up some of the best BBQ in Des Moines and gathering with friends for a picnic. Some even pack up and head out of town since they have an extra day off of work.

Memorial Weekend has become the starting point for the summer vacation season, but it also has a deeper meaning than that. Memorial Day is a federal holiday set aside every year to honor and remember all of the soldiers that are no longer with us that fought for our country. Wobbly Boots Roadhouse found a few interesting facts about this important holiday.

This holiday actually started out being called Decoration Day. In the 1880's, surviving soldiers of the Civil War honored their fallen comrades by decorating their graves with flags and flowers.

In 1882, folks began calling the day Memorial Day, but that name change didn't become legal until 1967.

May 30 was the official day to celebrate for many years. Congress decided that some holidays should always fall on a Monday to allow a 3-day weekend. In 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act came into effect, moving Memorial Day to the last Monday of May.

A wonderful tradition that few know about, which Congress made a law in 2000, is an official moment of remembrance. President Bill Clinton signed the National Moment of Remembrance Act which states that all Americans must pause at 3 pm, local time, and take that moment to remember the brave men and women that fought for our freedom.

American flags are flown at half-staff on this holiday, but not all day. It is tradition to fly them at half-staff until noon, but then immediately raise them to full-staff until sunset. We spend part of the day remembering the fallen, and the rest of the day enjoying the freedoms that they helped us to have.

We hope that everyone is able to enjoy a wonderful Memorial Weekend with your family and friends. Wobbly Boots Roadhouse is here if you want to stop by and enjoy part of it with us. Holidays are always better when you celebrate them with the best BBQ in Des Moines.

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1301 NW 114th St
Clive IA 50325

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Order Up Some Wobbly Boots BBQ For Your Memorial Day

Memorial Day is Monday, May 25 this year, and this weekend will see lots of families and groups of friends getting together, sharing meals, and enjoying the beautiful 3-day weekend. One way to make this get-together a lot simpler is to order up some of the best food in Clive Iowa from Wobbly Boots Roadhouse. Iowa's best BBQ restaurant has all kinds of tasty treats to add to your Memorial Weekend celebration.

BBQ is the perfect food for an outdoor Memorial Day Party. You can set up a picnic table or blanket in your backyard or a nearby park, and let everyone get as messy as they need to get. No dining room for you to clean up after they are done.

This is the time and place to really slather on our very own house made BBQ sauce to your heart's, and taste bud's, desire. It goes great over our smoked meats, ribs, burgers, and those boneless wings that the kids just love.

Second only to the actual barbecue itself, what really makes a picnic successful are the side dishes. We've got some great ones to go along with an outdoor meal: legendary baked beans, gourmet potato salad, creamy cole slaw, green beans with bacon, and cheesy corn with ham. We're getting hungry just writing about it!

Wobbly Boots Roadhouse is looking forward to helping you fill everyone's stomachs with our delicious menu items. All you need to do is give us a call and let us know what your group would like to order. We will prepare it in our usual delicious way, get it all packed up to go for you, and you can toss it into your picnic basket and head on over to meet your friends and family with the amazing smell of our mouth-watering hybrid barbecue wafting in before you.

Don't forget you can take home 16 oz. bottles of Wobbly Boots House Recipe BBQ Sauce!!

New Second Location - Same Incredible BBQ!

Open EVERY DAY at 11:00 AM!

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Wobbly Boots Roadhouse

1301 NW 114th St