BBQ, anyone?

Over at Dappled Things, Bet has a good post about barbecue. In my mind, anyhow, it's a great topic.

Some thoughts on barbecue...some mine, some adapted from Dappled Things.

Do you have any other ideas to add to the list?
What BBQ joints are your favorites? Give restaurant name, city, state if you can.

• Barbecue is a noun, not a verb.
• Barbecue (n.) is meat (chicken, pork, beef) slowly cooked over low heat, flavored by the smoke in the cooker. Most common woods for smoking are hickory and mesquite, although others can be used.
• Barbecue is NOT meat covered in a ketchupy sauce. BBQ is often served with sauce, usually ketchup-based, vinegar-based, or mustard-based.
• A true barbecue restaurant has a wood pile out back, and smoke curling from a chimney
• The quality of the barbecue is inversely proportional to the classiness of the restaurant. Hole-in-the-wall places are some of the best. The more pickup trucks and fewer luxury cars in the parking lot, the better.

Posted by JRC at October 3, 2003 04:22 PM