I love the obligatory "hickory park sucks" posts that always show up in a restaurant thread. I'm sorry but you are straight up lying if you say it took an hour before you got your food. I've been to HP with a party of 30 and it never took longer than 20 minutes to get served. BBQ snobs are the worst.
I was just describing my experience, which I said multiple times was over 3 years ago. I don't hate on something unless I have experienced it first hand. I can understand that other people enjoy it and have good experiences there, but I think there are better restaurants in Ames, big friggin deal.