Zach Matthews
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Wow. I about spit my beer all over my keyboard. Is that a LiveStrong AND a WristStrong bracelet over there?
Mike, have you ever fished in Bosnia? I saw a vacation ad today from FlyOdyssey.co.uk (some board members run it) for three days and four nights there for only 400 pounds (about 700 bucks I think).
Zach
If I had told you in 2000 that within a decade, you’d have been celebrating the return to $2.65 a gallon, what do you think your reaction would have been.
David –
There’s a lot of regional variation in the US with regard to the different kinds of barbecue sauce. I think your mustard sauce is a North Carolina standard. My home state of Arkansas, specifically around the Mississippi river, is famous for tomato-based hot, sweet sauce, usually served on pulled pork or ribs. Up in Kansas City, which was the terminus for the old cattle-drive trails from Texas, you’ll mostly find beef brisket barbecue. Texas, for obvious reasons, uses all sorts of beef. South Carolina barbecue, if I recall correctly, is vinegar-based and not particularly hot. The barbecue restaurant I plan to take everyone to this weekend in Bryson City, North Carolina is at a geographical nexus of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina barbecue. As I recall, they offered like eight different homemade sauces.
When I got married, Lauren’s dad arranged for a 160 lb. hog to be delivered to my house. I got a family friend to provide the smoker (a converted propane tank such as would supply a family of 5 for a year and which is welded to a trailer for transport). My friend and some of his friends worked all day from 4:00AM on that hog, basting it with barbecue sauce. By the time I had finished my dawn fishing trip with my groomsmen, gotten dressed, married Lauren, and returned with 400 guests in tow, the hog was literally falling off the bone. Lauren’s family had a family friend who somehow got ahold of a barbecue sauce recipe which a restaurant had once paid $30,000 for (thus, it is “the $30,000 barbecue sauce”). We went through a 160 lb. hog and a frigging vat of that sauce in half an hour. My friends still talk about what a hell of a party our wedding reception was. (Cops broke it up at 1:00AM because the neighbors a quarter mile down the road were complaining about the noise of the outdoor dance floor. We had invited all the other neighbors within that 1/4 mile radius, probably buying us a good hour).
Zach