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"Not quite as good as a frozen Zero bar"

Ahh, I see you are an Old Testament scholar too. However, you failed to notice one of the arguments that went back and forth during that great debate on Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim (from which we get that famous "tastes great-less filing debate). On Gerizim, the good guys, came the winning argument "Snickers" and from Ebal, the losing guys, came "Peresh" (which later was translated Zero bars).

Since the Snickers guys won the debate, a way was made for the soft delivery of the Snickers by an angel at night, to all the good Children of Israel (from which the myth of Santa Claus came about). Sometimes, on special occasions, they are delivered by other means but never just dropped from heaven promiscuously.

There was one episode when unripened Snickers were delivered by an apprentice on the seventh day (they used an apprentice since the union contract was very specific that full time angels could only work six days) and people got sick so it was decided to forget delivery on the seventh and deliver twice as much on the sixth by the professionals.

Now as to the barbecue, the problem was the beef and veal that was being boiled (yech). The priests were not good with the condiments until they went to school in Babylon. They had forgotten about the leeks and garlic used in Egypt to flavor food (really they associated spices with pagans or incense)and it was not until Babylon and eastern spices that they began to experiment with barbecue.

However with all the building of walls, houses and the temple and the hostile forces they had to contend with as well as earning a living since those miserable refugees refused to kick in the temple dues back in Jerusalem, barbecue was put on the back burner until the Inter Testamentary times, ala the Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

They were hermits with time on their hands and lots of beef to sacrifice and eat so they had to find different ways to serve it and thus the different flavors of the barbecue, some vinegar based, some coffee based, some molasses based, and some honey based, although they had to compete with the morticians for the honey. This is the status of the research on some of the more fragile fragments that are being translated as we speak.

Since the Snickers guys won the debate, a way was made for the soft delivery of the Snickers by an angel at night, to all the good Children of Israel (from which the myth of Santa Claus came about). Sometimes, on special occasions, they are delivered by other means but never just dropped from heaven promiscuously.

What about all the people with peanut allergies? Did God say, let them eat.... Dove?