I was telling my wife tonight about an article I read in USeless Air seat magazine that tracked BBQ from NC all the way west to Kansas city. In Nashville we had hickory smoked with red sauce that was between NC vinegar based & heavier red in Memphis. On Nov 27, 2013 10:05 PM, "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Lexington and Charlotte use a sweet, tomato-based sauce; Eastern NC BBQ > such as that in Wilson and Goldsboro use a vinegar-based sauce along with > cooking it over REAL hardwood coals to produce REAL BBQ. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> > To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:52 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] i learn a new word from dwight giles today > > > > In the south, BBQ is quite regional. Lexington NC considers itself the BBQ > capitol, but I can hardly eat that red stuff. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt > Raymond > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:33 PM > To: Diesel List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] i learn a new word from dwight giles today > > A couple years ago I taught a class at a TV station in Greenville, SC. Its > not far from Charlotte so I flew into Charlotte, rented a car there and > drove down. On the way I passed about a hundred barbecue places and joked > about it at the station. They asked it I liked barbecue and when I gave the > affirmative they said they'd take me for the "best barbecue in South > Carolina!" > > So we go to this place which is, no joke a former machine shop. Its an old > Morton building that still smells of machine oil and the barbecue was > pretty > good. > > Well of course afterward they ask me if that wasn't the best barbecue I > ever > had and I allowed as how it was pretty good but not the best. They wanted > to > know where the best barbecue I'd ever had was and although I warned them > that they wouldn't like the answer they still wanted to hear. I told them > "Buck's Naked BBQ, Freeport, ME" http://www.bucksnaked-bbq.com/ now > apparently in Windham and Portland as well. > > Thats when I went from being "the Yankee instructor" to "That gawd dammed > Yankee, he don't know a dawd dammed thing about barbecue!" > > -Curt > > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:36:40 -0700 > From: G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] i learn a new word from dwight giles today > Message-ID: > <cantulyh4b2upsz+qvnc3z-bl+5zyghm6knaivosyrajsj4o...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > <snip> > > Damn-Yankee, on the other hand has always meant exactly that.. lol.. > > Grant... > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
