Genesis of BBQ????

[Curt]

According to FoxNews Foodie:

“Barbecue” is generally credited to the Taino Indians, pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. “Barbacoa” or “barabicu” translates as either “sacred fire pit,” describing a grill raised on a platform or “meat-smoking apparatus,” usually for a whole animal.

The entire story is found here.

What do folks in "BBQ nation" think about this?

 

[daver]

Just like what was removed from Adam, the best part is the rib.

 

[Reepicheep]

Sounds right...but far more importantly and agregiously- it fails to mention that KC has the best BBQ on the planet.

 

[jwithnell]

I thought you were suggesting that we were missing part of the text from Genesis, that would have gone something to the effect that Eve kept telling people: "Y'all come to the house and visit sometime." And people kept taking her seriously, so Adam dug a pit out near the highway and built a simple wooden structure. Then he put an RC Cola thermometer on the screen door of the building and some out-of-date calendars on the walls and declared: "Let there be barbecue."

Of course, I'm having a little difficulty with my deeply held Georgian believe that barbecue is pork and that hogs were considered unclean, but perhaps Adam got away with it because this was before the time of Moses?

 

[Sven]

Here's a handy BBQ review:

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[Mushroom]

Threads like this are painful for me...my favorite BBQ joint is closed for the season. They shut down after Christmas and don't reopen until late March. They take their vacations during this period. I have threatened to kidnap the pig out front and hold him until they would reopen, but they only laughed. Then somebody did steal the pig. So they replaced it with one that is supposed to be anchored somewhere in Mongolia to prevent future extortion. Here's the new pig:
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[Curt]

Threads like this are painful for me...my favorite BBQ joint is closed for the season. They shut down after Christmas and don't reopen until late March. They take their vacations during this period. I have threatened to kidnap the pig out front and hold him until they would reopen, but they only laughed. Then somebody did steal the pig. So they replaced it with one that is supposed to be anchored somewhere in Mongolia to prevent future extortion. Here's the new pig:
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Ours is closed, too.

 

[LawrenceU]

Mine is wide open. When the wind is right I can smell the aromatic smoke of slowing cooking pork shoulders as it wafts over the hill, across the park, and up into my yard.

Of course, the best smell, and barbecue is when it is cooked in my yard!

 

[Adam's Eve]

There's a little shop in my hometown back in Virginny... we visit every time we go back... got my hubby hooked They also make the best fried dill pickles!

 

[SRoper]

If I recall, William Dampier introduced the word "barbeque" to the English language.

 

[coramdeo]

I think I'll go to Big Jakes for lunch!

 

[Tripel]

Mmmmm.....BBQ.

Coincidentally, I smoked a pork butt this weekend, so I've been eating a lot of barbecue the past couple days.

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Sounds right...but far more importantly and agregiously- it fails to mention that KC has the best BBQ on the planet.

That's because such a mention would be untrue. KC. Ha! That's ridiculous!

 

[SemperEruditio]

I love vegetarian BBQ.

 

[Curt]

I love vegetarian BBQ.

GeRoss.

 

[SemperEruditio]

Kidding! I was a vegetarian for about 2 months. I met my future-wife and she decided that it was unhealthy for a Cuban to be a vegetarian. The first dinner her mom cooked for me was a BBQ with every form of meat known to man...but I was told to "just eat the steamed veggies..." I think I lasted 3 minutes before I became an omnivore again.