"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "Pete C." wrote:
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>>Warning! Warning! Once you figure out how to do real BBQ it's addictive.
>
> What BBQ mavens do is over season/overcook cheap cuts of meat... BBQ
> isn't even about cooking, it's all about a bunch of rednecks
> pretending to cook crapy food outdoors. BBQ is 100% trailor trash
> cooking... over seasoned/overcooked cheapo meat... and pretnding they
> love it... like the emporor's new clothes. A load of slobs drooling
> over hobo soup kitchen cooking.

That's kind of how I think of it too.

My dad used to BBQ perhaps once or twice a year. It was either steaks or
hamburgers. When I knew he was firing up the BBQ, I would run and look for
recipes that I could make. I remember making bananas and potatoes on the
grill. Nobody liked the bananas.

Then in more recent years I bought him a new set of BBQ tools and a
cookbook. He just sort of sighed at them and then told me that he really
never liked to BBQ. All these years, I thought he did! I guess he just
sort of felt that he needed to do it because for some reason at least in
this country, it is considered a manly thing to do.

But even though we came from KS where BBQ is big, that type of food is just
not what my family likes. We did do it during the summer at my
grandparent's farm. I think the only reason for this is that they had a
total of 8 kids and all of those kids got married and had kids. Then we had
extended family beyond that. So at times we probably had close to 60-70
people there. We brought our own tables and chairs to eat at and those that
had BBQs probably brought them as well.

I don't remember eating any stuff with BBW sauce on it there though. I
think it was usually hot dogs and hamburgers. Probably at times there was
game meat as we did have hunters in the family. Probably it was bring your
own meat! We moved from there when I was 7 so don't remember the
particulars.

We also had tons of fresh fruit and vegetables grown on the farm, and there
was always homemade ice cream.

Then in CA, we had neighbors who BBQed pretty much every weekend and I know
that was cheap meat. The woman was Thai so she made mostly Thai food. She
had me pick up the meat for her sometimes as she couldn't drive. I can't
remember the cut of beef now but it was extremely cheap. She would marinate
it all night. Also ground pork that she used in egg rolls. Those obviously
weren't BBQed but the meat was. And she got some kind of little sea
creatures in Oakland. They looked like little octopus. Not sure what they
really were. People did go nuts over her food though! But the only thing I
ate that she cooked were corn fritters. Probably not even Thai at all.