Posted on 09/22/2011 6:39:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rick Perry has some splainin’ to do when he gets to Eastern North Carolina, and we’re not talking about his dog-cussing of Democrats and Ben Bernanke.
Back when he was the Texas agriculture commissioner, Perry tried some Eastern North Carolina barbecue at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, and reportedly said, “I’ve had road kill that tasted better than that.”
The remark got picked in a book, “Holy Smoke: the Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue,” by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed. That volume is probably making the rounds of Mitt Romney’s headquarters right now.
Pronounced “Oh-high-yah.”
LOL.... sorta like Illa-noise.
I hope this one isn’t true. If he really said that, I hope he was just having an unusual bad moment. I’d like to think that serious candidates for our nation’s highest office have a bit more manners than that.
True that, but if they had stayed in Ohio, no one would ever have known who they are.....
In 1992 he was not a serious candidate for any high office - but more to the point, at a convention, he probably said it to tweak some North Carolinian friend of his standing right there - or some such horsing around like that. I mean, it’s not like this was part of a keynote address.
I’m from NC, and it doesn’t bother me that Texans totally mis use the term barbecue.
You kind'a got that wrong. EASTERN North Carolina BBQ is pork with a vinegar based sauce. Lexington style sauce which the rest of North Carolina favors is something like Eastern sauce but with ketchup in it.
I was born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma and to me BBQ means beef (except for some pork ribs).
The first time I went to NC with my wife and she said she wanted Que I was quite happy. When they served me a plate of chopped up pig with vinegar on it I felt the same way Perry did. Over the years I have developed a taste for pig vinegarette (as I refer to it), and I can smoke up a pretty good pig shoulder, but it still ain't BarBQue.
And Dah Moynss
Do you realize that you gave us a recipe for Eastern North Carolina BBQ without any pig in it?
Throw a whole pig (only the shoulders if you are any where else in NC) on to the grill (we have an entire industry here devoted to building pig cookers that are designed just for this) early in the morning and leave it for most of the day at about 250, skin side up. About an hour or so before you want to eat it, turn it over and pour in about a half gallon of the sauce that you were kind enough to give the recipe for. Take it off the grill and remove the meat. Put the meat into a chopping box and proceed to chop it with a hoe (I have one that I only use for this purpose). If you don’t have a box, you can use a butcher block and a couple of cleavers. Eastern NC barbeque is also called ‘whole hog’ barbeque.
Second: what are you doing with liquid smoke on a brisket when wood is so cheap?
Next you'll be asking me if I've ever heard of Sandra Bulloch.
If he was just bantering with a friend from North Carolina, that would make sense. If he were serious, the incident would still point to his being rude and boorish. We don’t need that in a candidate. The point is not whether he insulted a state or a person. The point is what the incident would say about him. I have serious reservations about Rick Perry, but I’m inclined to believe either that the whole story is a myth or that you are right about him just teasing with friends.
All I’ll say is, Sandra Bulluck went to EAST CAROLINA University and around there, barbecue is exactly what Perry called road kill.
I don’t know if you are from the south or not, but barbecue is one of those subjects that is often debated but never debated seriously. In the Carolina’s, there are three distinct barbecues - and the debates are just guy trash talk. I don’t want someone so un American (like Obama) that they’ve never hung around with the guys and talked smack (be it about football, girls, barbecue, music, cars, etc....)..
And it was almost 20 years ago.
I didn't even know that East Carolina U. wasn't in eastern North Carolina!
An interesting sidenote: The best east Indian food I've ever had (and that includes Paris, London, India, and anywhere-else-in-the-world) was in Greenville, North Carolina, at an Indian restaurant there. The restaurant didn't stay open long, and I was essentially just passing through--but it was the best. Evidently Greenville's does Indian cuisine better than barbecue.
Whut the hell you mean, "not serious"...???!!!
Shhhhh......I was just trying to calm fears of a yankee......they wouldn’t understand.......shhhhh
I love most varieties of BBQ sauces. Was introduced to Carolina BBQ sauce about a year ago. I loved it. I am a TEXAN. So were both sets of my Great Grandparents! LOL!
Gotcha! Yankees don't know diddly 'bout barbecue, anyway.
Well let's see exactly what kind of morals you have. Beans or no beans?
If it has beans in it, it is some sort of disgusting chili flavored stew.
>>> Gotcha! Yankees don’t know diddly ‘bout barbecue, anyway.>>>
Hell, they think it’s a VERB!! (as a side note, a few years ago there was a contest to come up with slogans for the NC license plates - and one entry was “Barbecue is a noun.”
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