Was it Eastern or Western style?
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 12:56 PM by Jon HamA couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered head to toe in barbecue sauce.
The big question: Was it vinegar- or ketchup-based?
(HT/Susan)
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
This is Wisconsin we’re talking about. They don’t have vinegar-based barbecue up there, do they?
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Q. How much barbecue sauce does it take to cover a man from head to toe?
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
A. Don’t know. Don’t want to know. If you do know, keep it to yourself, you pervert.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
How did I miss this one? Then again, it’s northeast Wisconsin, so they’re a bit, ah, different up there.
We don’t know vinegar, and I’ll bet it wasn’t all that spicy.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
steve, I thought those German-lineage folks loved vinegar. They even put it in their potato salad.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Not in the barbecue. We take our cues from Kansas City on that.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Man, are you missing something. Nothing like a vinegar-based sauce on smoked meat.
My father used the best of both worlds, combining the Eastern N.C. and the Western N.C. schools. His standard sauce was 1 part apple cider vinegar with 1 part ketchup, with LOTS of salt and pepper added. Just shake that up and put it on chicken you’ve cooked over coals and it tastes like some secret sauce with dozens of ingredients. Yum. Plan to do that over the Fourth.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I’m going to have to try that one of these days.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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July 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
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July 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Just as a little leaven leavens the whole batch, there is no such thing as “in between.” A single tomato seed would make eastern sauce, if not western, then at least not-eastern.