[varina davis]

Seemed like a good weekend for a barbecue debate

[Rebelbase]

Lexington City Motto: "Famous for overrated Barbeque"

[MplsSteve]

I've never had a vinegar-based BBQ sauce. Sounds kinda good.

OTOH, I'd like to try South Carolina's mustard-based BBQ. That sounds good too.

[Rebelbase]

A fight's a brewin'.

[Bombardier]

Texas style. Brisket and sausage.....with a good tomato, molasses and pepper sauce. Mustard is for hotdogs and vinegar is for salads. (Just to be clear, though, I do like Kansas City style for ribs and chicken.....)

[ProudVet77]

Texas Beef BBQ and some Memphis style pork. Hmmm....

[tet68]

I don't care as long as it's sliced and I can get some
outside, with a little coleslaw on it.
I don't want it on a soft bun, but white bread toasted
over the coals of the pit.
And stew, real stew not some mush that's been run through
the blender five times, till you can't tell what your eating.
UNSWEET Tea!

[A knight without armor]

Fat Matt's Rib Shack, Atlanta, GA.

It is the BEST.

[No Blue States]

Any Barbecue is fine with me, just trim that stinking blubber off! Charge me more per pound but dont feed me that crap.

[dighton]

For today's other religious war, go here.

[Mark in the Old South]

I used to live in North Carolina, I thought allowing any child to grow to the ripe old age of 10 and not know the pros and cons of the two styles was ground for Child protective services to evaluate the family for neglect.

The fact the school was involved just goes to show the sorry state of the public educational system.

[ncpatriot]

Rocky Mount has the best BBQ in the world.

End of subject.

[pepperhead]

tomato vs. vinegar

vinegar

[rwa265]

"While Texas generally unites behind beef brisket, Kansas City has its slathered ribs and South Carolina holds dear to its mustard-sauced pork"

And St. Louis has its pork steaks . . .

http://www.iowapork.org/recipes/recipe29.html

[scfirewall]

Lexington BBQ does not use a "sauce"...they use Dip,and yes it is Tomato based, Eastern NC Barbecue uses a Vinegar sauce, Kings BBQ out east and down on the Crystal Coast was one of the first to bottle their sauce.

SC has a mustard based sauce that is quite tasty....This is mostly available in the Low Country and the Midlands. You can find the Mustard Based Sauce at Maurice's Piggy Parks that Are around Columbia and Bessinger's which is down around Charleston.....Melvin's and Maurice's Mustard based sauces are are available in grocery stores.....although Maurice lost most of his distribution when he refused to take down his confederate flag and the NAACP muscled the Grocery chains to drop his line.

IMO,

1) Lexington
2) SC
3) Eastern NC

[Boomer Geezer]

mmMMMMMMmmmm ... OK so we missed the Memorial Day BBQ cycle (too late to experiment now), but the 4th is coming up before we know it. Wouldn't this be a great thread for local experts to post their recipes?

I'm along with the previous poster about being curious about the mustard BBQ, but I'm open to learning more about the vinegar one too ... and almost any other type of BBQ recipe!

Oh heck, why not throw in information as to the method of cooking ... marinaded and in an oven; on the pit over coals, or whatever ... ??

And how about the fixin's that go along with it? Any local reicpes on just what to have with that BBQ would be helpful too! This could be quite a well-fed 4th coming up ;)

Unless, of course, there already is an Official BBQ thread, but I didn't see one ...

[glasseye]

Eastern style.

To die for.

[Jewelsetter]

Dish it up, I'll eat all.

[Hank Rearden]

I'm omnivorous - as long as it's not tofurkey, I'm there.

All BBQ is blessed.

[Manic_Episode]

As I sit here with a belly full of homemade ribs, brisket, slaw, broc-cauliflower salad and beans, I'd have to say my bbq is best.

[inkling]

The best in the Phoenix area is Joe's BBQ in Gilbert. Honey Bear's is another local intitution ("You don't need no teeth to eat our meat" is their motto). Being close to he border, our sauce tends to be a lot spicier than other areas.

I just got back from Greenville, SC, and had the best BBQ of my life at Henry's Smokehouse. The Hash & Rice was to die for. I also tried a mustard-based sauce at another area restaurant that was really good.

A quick technical question: is an electric smoker worth getting or do I have to get a charcoal version. The electric sounds a lot easier to deal with, but the most important thing is some great-tasting BBQ.