SPOILER ALERT: Vegan Barbeque to be featured on TCR?
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I found this little snippet in the Montclair Times and thought I’d share it. Although, I have to tell you, there’s a bit of a rule in Texas about food lingo. When you’re in the backyard cooking, you’re “grilling”, not barbequing. “Barbeque” is meat cooked by Yankees who probably don’t even serve Sweet Tea with their brisket and whose potato salad comes from a tub. “Bar-B-Que” is usually ok, but still might not be quite right, but at least they serve fresh brewed Sweet Tea.. “BBQ”, served as a big slap of some part of a cow on a piece of waxed paper in a plastic basket, with beer or canned soda because the restaurant can’t even be bothered to serve fountain drinks or make Sweet Tea, and a big wad of homemade slaw and potato salad, is always, ALWAYS the best. And the best BBQ in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex is Angelo’s on White Settlement road just north of the arts district in Fort Worth. Dear God, is that some tasty brisket.
Anyway, so here’s the snippet from the Montclair Times (and I corrected the spelling of StePHen’s name):
Parents Who Rock
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
By MARK S. PORTER
of The Montclair Times…
[Brian] Saltzman — with a “little bitty extra part” for [Alma] Schneider and one child — was slated last night to be featured in a segment of “The Colbert Report,” a satirical show on the Comedy Channel starring … Stephen Colbert. “It’s a reenactment of a barbecue we had in our backyard,” Schneider said, in which her husband arrives late to find only veggie burgers remain for the eating. It’s a parody of survivor shows and, she proclaimed, “It’s very funny.”
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May 24th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Yep, “BBQ” is a noun in the south. Damn Yankees don’t know how to do it right. (So I am really one of them. Maybe I converted.) And nobody has sweet tea up here! Sometimes they don’t even give you sugar with the unsweetened stuff! It’s terrible.
-Meow, former resident of the great state of South Carolina (although I prefer Texas BBQ to South Carolina’s, shhhhh) ;-)
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May 25th, 2007 at 12:23 am
I use grill/BBQ correctly. Sometimes. But then, I rarely eat meat, so that’s sort of a wash. It’s hard to describe cooking a veggie dog or a salmon filet over a fire as “BBQing.”
Even though we’re from almost-Canada, in my house we insist on the superiority of sweet tea.
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