North Carolina "barbecue" is not true barbecue at all. It's simply slow
cooked pork with vinegar and some hot peppers added. South Carolina is not
any better; their local sauces tend to be mustard-based (good, but not
barbecue).
Of course up here in Maine all anyone really wants to do is "lobster bake".
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Denys Beauchemin
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Really funny
Not to be rude and no offence to Virginians, but Virginia university
denizens would not know barbecue if it was staring them in the face. They
also do not know French, nor did they use the same terms I did.
Next you will be telling me some other state like say, North Carolina,
claims they know barbecue. Give me a break.
Denys
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Wirt Atmar
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Really funny
Denys denies:
> You speak like you actually know this for a fact but your story is
> just
one
> of many different stories about the origins of the term "barbecue."
>
> Other variations place the origin of barbecue in France, (before they
> started smoking their Peugeots, obviously.) The term barbecue is said
> to
be
> derived from the French: "barbe au cul," which is how you skewer an
animal
> from the beard (mouth) to the butt. Once skewered it is placed over
> a
fire
> and smoked.
"The etymology of the term is vague, but the most plausible theory states
that the word "barbecue" is a derivative of the West Indian term "barbacoa,"
which denotes a method of slow-cooking meat over hot coals. Bon Appetit
magazine blithely informs its readers that the word comes from an extinct
tribe in Guyana who enjoyed "cheerfully spitroasting captured enemies." The
Oxford English Dictionary traces the word back to Haiti, and others claim
(somewhat
implausibly) that "barbecue" actually comes from the French phrase "barbe a
queue", meaning "from head to tail."
--http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/MA95/dove/history.htm
Notice the adverb "implausibly" in the above text.
Wirt Atmar
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