What is real BBQ?

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Well - having spent most of my life in South Dakota, I haven't really *experienced* BBQ outside of my mum's ground beef with ketchup and mustard (a bit on the gross side, I know. But, we were poor!)... and that's really a "Sloppy Joe" and not BBQ.

 

[jester47]

Every Culture has a way of grilling meat. For example: Teriyaki = Japanese BBQ.

Like a True Texan, I will take it any way I can get it. Just grill me some meat. But the best I have had is in Clark's Outpost in Tioga TX. Might want to check out Llano for that other listing though. Next time I am out in that area.

 

[diaglo]

Like a True Texan, I will take it any way I can get it.

gives me a whole new way at looking at your posts now.

IYKWIMAITYD

diaglo "getting less of it with my wife in Savanah for work" Ooi

 

[scrubkai]

Vraille you are a brave brave man to even bring this up..

I've got some of my wife's extended family down south that nearly tossed my brother-in-law in a lake just for saying that he liked beef BBQ better the pork.

However as a Yank from Chicago, I'm much less militant about this. (Pizza and Hot Dogs on the other hand are a different story. Don't even start me on the pathetic nastiness New Yorker's call pizza.)
I'm sure I'm going to be in the minory here, but I tend like pork ribs better then most any BBQ beef, and my sauce heavy and sweet. Sure I've had some very good dry BBQ but to me if it isn't wet, it's not really BBQ.

 

[EricNoah]

In all seriousness, they all sound good and I'd love to try a couple of distinctly different varieties side by side.

 

[WayneLigon]

Al Roker had a great show on the Food Network where they went to all sorts of different BBQ places. There was this one guy who invented his own custom-made cooker and used a dry rub that would effectively melt into the meat as it cooked. That sounded very yummy.

Here we generally get pulled-pork or ribs with a choice of mild/medium/hot sauces based on tomato or mustard. There is a great place called 'Dreamland' in Tuscaloosa where the only question you get asked is 'half-rack or full-rack?'; they only serve sweet tea, and there are no side dishes at all besides some bread they bring to the table. The branch here in Montgomery has a few sides, as well as more drink choices.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm a Texas Brisket & Southern Pulled Pork guy myself.

Oh, Yeah. Sauce SHOULD NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER be put on the meat while its cooking!!!! Sauce ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS comes on the side.

I agree with you, being a Texas guy myself, but trying North Carolina barbecue, they make a good argument for good barbecue.

So I go for a mix. Slow cooked pork (just falls apart... mmm), with some homemade vinegar-mustard-honey sauce.

 

[Hellefire]

Bah. Fresh bear and moose, with some salmon and halibut on the side, is the only TRUE BBQ.


Aaron

 

[Shemeska]

I agree with you, being a Texas guy myself, but trying North Carolina barbecue, they make a good argument for good barbecue.

So I go for a mix. Slow cooked pork (just falls apart... mmm), with some homemade vinegar-mustard-honey sauce.

I'm a yankee transplant to NC and it took a decade down here before I actually tried BBQ. Having come from up north I was always familiar with 'BBQ' being steaks or such cooked on a charcoal grill outside and maybe with some 'bbq' sauce put over the top of it later.

The stories of my youth were lies I tell you! I'm a zealous convert to the true BBQ that is pulled pork vinegar base BBQ. Everything else may be good in its own right but it's something else trying to call itself BBQ. Except for that mustard based abomination in South Carolina that deserves to be stricken from the face of the planet.

And yes, vinegar based sauce looks like red colored, silty vinegar with (ideally) peppercorns and spices floating around in it.

Now, that said, one of my friends in my Saturday gaming group that I'm a player in, he's from Texas and every so often he'll make 'Texas style BBQ' beef brisket. Damn is it good, but it's not BBQ, it's 'Texas Style BBQ'. So while it's good, it gets that disclaimer added to its name as a qualifier

 

[EricNoah]

Bah. Fresh bear and moose, with some salmon and halibut on the side, is the only TRUE BBQ.

I think I'll join you ... but then I'll do anything once, just for the halibut.