What is real BBQ?

[Angel Tarragon]

My dads homegrilled ribs! Mmmmmmm.....yum!

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I had some grilled chicken for dinner earlier, I am not sure if that counts as BBQ though.

 

[arwink]

Cajun Spiced Kangaroo Steaks, lamb sausages and beer.

The only mandatory part is the beer.

 

[Hand of Evil]

South Carolina and that means mustard based! But the BBQ is only as good as the wood you use, the sause has to grab and hold the wood smoke enhancing the bite and flavor.

 

[diaglo]

Not at all -- I'm just reel-y happy that someone took the bait and caught onto my shrimpy little pun.

i'm throwing this post on the Barbie.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

My number one favorite is NC-style pulled pork barbeque with vinegar based sauce. It has to have pork & beans on the side, along with rice and hush puppies. I once drove from Charleston, SC (actually Moncks Corner) to Spencer, NC along the backroads for a weekend getaway with my wife. We had barbeque for every meal except breakfast for the entire weekend. The rules were simple: the sauce had to be vinegar based and it couldn't be a chain resaurant. We stopped at some ramshackle places in towns that were a wide spot in the road. That was some of the best I have ever had. It was a great weekend.

One of my colleagues is from Scotland County, NC and he makes some mean barbeque every time the band directors of our county get together. Wow, it is good!

My second favorite is dry ribs from Sticky Fingers.

DM

 

[James Heard]

I'm partial to mustard sauces and this mexican barbecued steak they cook at the restaurant near my house. I can and will do other barbecue, but basically I'm just tired of rubs and red sauces most of the time. I've been getting into simply slow smoking pork roasts with nothing else on them lately though. I'm not sure if I'd really call them barbecue, but there's something really special about cooking meat for 4 hours over low heat and smoke that's pretty awesome.

I'd like to go ahead an apologize ahead of time though, to anyone who's had the misfortune of having hotdogs covered in barbecue sauce for any reason. That's just wrong.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Barbeque takes many forms...I just had a nice BBQ sandwich made with teriyaki sauce and Tabasco. A bit sweet, but it was quite tasty.

 

[the Jester]

Ahh, this thread reminds me of my discovery of the Great BBQ Debate while traveling the country.

It was when I was with AlSih2o that I discovered the passions we Americans feel about BBQ- whatever it really is. Wet, dry, pork, beef- all I know for sure is that it's MEAT.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

As far as I'm concerned, since the cows come from Texas, Texas is the standard. NC merely has a dialect.

well, since real BBQ is PORK, not beef, I could care less where the cows come from, or where they go.