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wrote:

> . . . I can not believe anyone serious would come to
> central/eastern NC, go eat BBQ and NOT order brunswick stew and
> hushpuppies.

Well, I love Brunswick stew. At least my recipe for
it. Now as I understand it it was originally usually
made with squirrel or maybe squirrel and rabbit or
some other mix of meats, but nowadays it's often made
with chicken and lotsa folds don't have much access to
squirrel. However, that's neither here nor there. The
point is that it's a *meat* dish!!!! So what I don't
understand is why it would be served with another meat
dish, mainly bbq. (At least I'm assuming y'all put
some sort of meat in your stew and that NC bbq is bbq'd
meat and not bbq'd vegetables or something weird.

Now I don't have anything against eating 2 meat dishes
together. I love meat as much as the next person but
generally when I have a meat dish I sort of like a
contrasting kind of dish for a side dish. And I think
most people are that way, so it just seems odd to me that
Brunswick stew would become the traditional side dish for
bbq.

As for the hushpuppies, well, I never heard of them
being traditional bbq accompaniments. Here in Pgh. in
a lot of the black-owned bbq places it's usually corn
bread and the other side dishes are collard greens and
black-eyed peas and cole slaw and potato salad. People
usually only get 2 of the sides, not all four. But then
that tradition may come from another part of the south.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?