Re: Pride and Arrogance Re: American Attitudes (wasRe:Hardworking?)

[Marvin Long, Jr.]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:

> 
> Hmph.  "Barbecued Beef" is an oxymoron.  As an apostle of The One True
> Church of BBQ, I can tell you that The Lord will take pity upon you for your
> faulty digestive system, but you will remain like Moses, forced to end your
> days outside the restaurant, watching in envy as your fellows savor the
> Promised Goodness of pit-cooked, chopped on a bun.
> 
> ;-)

Always a sad thing, to lose another promising soul to the BBQ Swine Cult
whose origins lie in the less enlightened southeastern portions of this
here United States.  Especially painful to see one of its members stoop to
degredation of the chopping, rather than slicing, his food as though it
needed somehow to be punished.

I'm not saying BBQ pig flesh doesn't have a place.  And sometimes chopping
the meat is appropriate...if you need to feed a child whose teeth are
wobbly, say.

But there is a natural order to things, and beef BBQ is to pig as
_Macbeth_ is to _Cats_, you poor, poor soul.

0:-))

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas