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Sqwertz[_53_] · **Dinner tonight 3/1/2019**

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 19:21:11 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

> On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 5:43:38 PM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> And by "ribs", I assume you mean pork? Here in TX that's beef by
>> default. But sometimes you still have ask "back ribs or short
>> ribs".
>>
>> -sw
>>
> Yeah, you can pretty much lay money on the 4-legged animal of choice for
> barbeque in the South/Southeast is pork.

West of Texas you have to say on the menu what kind of ribs. But
they still usually don't. Because most BBQ restaurants were started
mostly by Southeasterners and not from Texas. They look at you
funny if you ask what kind of ribs. They say either "spares" or
"back". And you respond, "from what ANIMAL!?". And it goes
something that sounds like "From a pig, dumbass". And then you say,
"because you couldn't ever figure out how to smoke beef"

FTR, I've been asking "what kind" even before I lived in Texas.
Beef is much harder to get consistently right. Pork, easy.

I know the guy (Vietnames) who just opened up the first Texas style
BBQ restaurant in Vietnam. It's a Central Texas Style BBQ - beef.
And that whole country is pork and chicken.

-sw