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On Sunday, September 14, 2014 1:03:29 PM UTC-5, Janet Wilder wrote:
> On 9/14/2014 2:18 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > "sf" > wrote in message

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> >> Today I taught myself how to use lump. This is the first time I've

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> >> ever used it! We had two bags and I thought one was mesquite

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> >> briquettes, but it turned out to be another bag of lump. Long story

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> >> short, it took me two hours just to figure out how to get the

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> >> temperature where I wanted it to be in the BBQ.... and then I needed

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> >> to cook the ribs.

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> >> We finally ate at 9PM.

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> >> I looked at this recipe as a "side". I didn't measure spices, but

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> >> used everything called for. Added a little water to steam and then

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> >> about a quarter cup of coconut milk to finish it up.

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> >> I'll start earlier next time and definitely use more lump at the

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> > I tried to BBQ once and only once. I don't like BBQ food to begin with

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> > but I was gifted with a used BBQ. My friends liked steak and back when

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> > I was 19 I didn't know that there was another way to cook it. That's

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> > the only way I ever had it at home. My friends finally got the BBQ to

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> > light but only after I sent flaming newspaper all over my neighbor's

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> > yard. Heh.

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> That's grilling, not BBQ.
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> When I lived in New Jersey I, too, thought barbecue was a verb. It
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> wasn't until I began to travel in the South and places like Kansas City,
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> Tennessee, etc., that I learned that BBQ was a noun.
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> The act of creating BBQ is called smoking.
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So the way that the word is used in one part of the country is
incorrect? N.J. and St. Louis are wrong, and K.C. and Memphis
are right?
The way that Brits use the word is incorrect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis-style_barbecue

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--Bryan