Some of the best BBQ I have experienced were made in black establishments.
For my money though, KC BBQ, with the dry rub is the best eating in the world.
Ah but then you get into the internal question - vinegar based or tomato based sauce. It's said that barbecue sauce in Kansas City is like wine in France; go down the road a bit and it's a different taste experience altogether.
Still true the best flavored BBQ is often from black owned often roadside places. Family recipes passed down over the year, no corners cut, old fashioned smokers burning real wood. I would often ask local black customers where was the best place to eat when working in North Florida and South Georgia. Amazing the little hole in the wall places with BBQ to die for.
I don’t claim to be an expert on BBQ (I am an aficionado), but I think it’s hard to compare different types.
There are great black owned BBQ joints that are *very* different from nearby white owned BBQ joints, each seems to have its own particular charm, and there are good ones and bad ones of both types.
The one thing that I’ve noticed is the ambiance (if you can use that word in a BBQ joint) is directly proportional to how well the pig on the restaurant’s sign is dressed and the quality of the food seems to be inversely proportional.
IOW, if you want to get good BBQ, avoid the place with the logo of the pig in top hat and tails. They will have nice tablecloths and sh!tty food. Go to the place where the logo shows a pig wearing overalls, preferrably with only one shoulder strap attached, for really great food.
It sounds crazy as hell, I know, but I have yet to experience anything, in over 20 years of extensive field research, to disprove my hypothesis.
“From revolutionary times until the 50’s, black servants or slaves were the pit masters. The white overseers would not dirty their hands cooking a beast.”
This sounds like it came straight from some black power historical revisionist pamphlet. Are you kidding me? There must have been an awful lot of hungry White people waiting around for the what sure would be a numerically small group of ‘black slave pit masters’ to cook their ‘dirty beasts’ for them. Ridiculous...