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Too Bad to be True
Turns out Belgians aren't taxing BBQ to stop global warming after all. Several news agencies (and I) picked up the April Fool joke a couple of days late.
I do, however, stand by my anti-novelty aprons stance in the original post, and continue to support the development of technologies to detect them.
|4.5.07 @ 4:12PM|#
"I do, however, stand by my anti-novelty aprons stance in
the original post, and continue to support the development of
technologies to detect them."
STATIST!
:-p
|4.5.07 @ 4:19PM|#
The real shame here though is that in the current environment, this joke was virtually indistinguishable from reality
thoreau|4.5.07 @ 4:25PM|#
She's not a statist, mediageek, she's a technology
enthusiast:
...continue to support the development of technologies to
detect them
However, while I appreciate Katherine's technology enthusiasm, I am
willing to tolerate bizarre dress (or just about any other quirk)
if the person involved is grilling meat.
|4.5.07 @ 4:29PM|#
The last three threads descended into racism (or at least racist
internal organs), misogyny, and genocide. Oh, and some ginned up
outrage over paterophagy.
Where will this one end?
VM|4.5.07 @ 4:31PM|#
"grilling meat."
Dr. T (yet again) brilliantly summed it up!
"grilling meat."
I salute you, Sirs!
|4.5.07 @ 4:36PM|#
Sigh. de stijl, I can convert this thread to a genocide thread,
no problem. Ready?
Meating eating is genocide, you friggin' predator.
See? Easy.
|4.5.07 @ 4:40PM|#
Genocide's already been done today. I demand new bread and new
circuses.
highnumber,
Why would you give the time of day to someone who invented a fake
Chinese restauant in a forest somewhere in some pathetic ploy to
get us to think he had a real life with friends and such? If maps
could be gay, JimmyDaGeek's map would be the gayest map ever.
|4.5.07 @ 4:41PM|#
Have you fact checked the Gingrich/Cheyney/Thompson for GOP nominee stories yet? Because they all seem dubious to me too.
highnumber|4.5.07 @ 4:42PM|#
NEOLOGISM ALERT
paterophagy: n. consuming one's father, considered pathological
|4.5.07 @ 4:42PM|#
de stijl,
Northern Alabama barbecue is the only real barbecue. I'd be willing
to exterminate the entire race of a person who says otherwise.
jkii|4.5.07 @ 4:42PM|#
Dear Mr. de stijl:
I've been paterophagist for over 34 years and can assure you that I
maintain the highest standards in doing what I do.
jimmydageek|4.5.07 @ 4:45PM|#
de stijl | April 5, 2007, 4:40pm | #
Genocide's already been done today. I demand new bread and new
circuses.
highnumber,
Why would you give the time of day to someone who invented a fake
Chinese restauant in a forest somewhere in some pathetic ploy to
get us to think he had a real life with friends and such?
If maps could be gay, JimmyDaGeek's map would be the gayest
map ever.
Kip: "Napoleon...like anyone can even know that."
|4.5.07 @ 4:49PM|#
de stijl,
Alright then, prepare for mass death. You'd probably barbecue beef
or use a vinegar base. Infidel!
|4.5.07 @ 4:56PM|#
highnumber,
How's the new blog going? I'm thinking that you should upgrade its
ranking in Google and get other blogs to link to it. Just not Hit
& Run, for obvious reasons. We need to figure out a way for you
to post pictures, too.
|4.5.07 @ 5:01PM|#
You'd probably barbecue beef...
I don't barbeque silly cows, but I was dumped by one recently.
|4.5.07 @ 5:02PM|#
The saddest statement about Europe is that so few people recognized this as a hoax.
highnumber|4.5.07 @ 5:02PM|#
PL,
Actually, Hit & Run does link to it, don't they?
My blog is sort of like the replicants in Blade Runner. It
has an expiration date: Tuesday, March 10, 10:28 AM.
I'll need some help getting all that stuff together quickly.
jimmydageek|4.5.07 @ 5:05PM|#
It has an expiration date that already past? So, you have a spoiled blog??
Delighted in Dallas|4.5.07 @ 5:05PM|#
highnumber | April 5, 2007, 4:18pm | #
JimmyDaGeek guest-blogged this for me yesterday!
jimmydageek | April 5, 2007, 4:32pm | #
Thanks for the props, highnumber!
highnumber | April 5, 2007, 4:36pm | #
Keep up the good work, jimmy!
Rarely feel the need to comment, but I gotta say, in all honesty,
this shit has been cracking me up all week. Kudos.
|4.5.07 @ 5:09PM|#
They're just questions, highnumber's blog. In answer to your
query they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke
an emotional response.
Shall we continue?
Describe in single words only the good things that come into your
mind about... your host.
|4.5.07 @ 5:10PM|#
highnumber,
Are you sure? I've posted in the archives before, just to see if it
could be done. Though that was pre-transformation. My folks are
from Tennessee, so maybe I could get you Instalanched. Hit &
Run would simply have to give you server space if that
happened.
I swear that if I somehow get my fifteen minutes before April 10, I
will mention your blog on Letterman.
Incidentally, if can remain in continuous possession of this blog
space for five years, you can take actual title to it under
California's adverse possession law.
|4.5.07 @ 5:17PM|#
I like barbequed venison.
Especially at Christmas.
With small children present.
I tell the it's Blitzen.
Nelson Muntz|4.5.07 @ 5:20PM|#
The saddest statement about Europe H&R is
that so few people recognized this as a hoax
joke.
highnumber|4.5.07 @ 5:28PM|#
PL,
I based the expiration date on some research I
did for my one of my favorite
threads. It was true for that one. I
won.
Good luck getting on Letterman! Let me know if/when.
|4.5.07 @ 5:32PM|#
You know what? I don't give a crap about that crying girl after
all. Parenthood must be numbing me to human suffering.
You'll be the first to know if I achieve Top Ten List glory.
Actually, my goal is not to be on the show, but to have James Earl
Jones appear and read excerpts from my best posts at Hit &
Run.
|4.5.07 @ 5:37PM|#
That, or I grant Dave an interview after I become the first
person to be appointed Chief Censor of the United States.
Stupid kid. I plan to ridicule her publicly, right after I praise
your blog.
GILMORE|4.5.07 @ 5:37PM|#
I have a novely apron with tits. Not like, protruding, but
silkscreened. Im pretty down with it. Children love it.
I always wanted one like that guy... whatshis name... Wok and Roll?
Or i'd take one that were like... papal robes or something.
VM|4.5.07 @ 5:49PM|#
YOO DA MAN!!!!! That's all the sense you need know.
your comments to Laura.
The "make-a-wish" one
The comment from 11/18 @ 1:49am
basically everything.
BBQ is a NOUN|4.5.07 @ 6:32PM|#
barbecue is not a verb
barbecue is picked or chopped smoked pork
You can grill or smoke chicken, ribs, beef or whatever but barbecue
is pork
and bbq sauce should be vinegar and pepper
not ketchup and liquid smoke
MORE BARBECUE THAN YOU|4.5.07 @ 7:43PM|#
har,
didnt someone on the previous thread make that poiint already?
('what is barbecue')
Being a bit of a bbq snob as well, you make it sound as though
carolina style bbq is the true faith, while memphis or texas bbq
are heretical blasphemers...
personally i'm on the NC style pref as well... pit smoked, served
with pickles in a red/white checked paper basket, cheap bun, and
some vinegar-pepper sauce at hand. maybe some collards, sweet
potatoes, and a MrPibb to go with. - but that doesnt mean texans
dont have their own point of view, and would probably go to the mat
over it.
childhood-favorite BBQ joint: Wilson Bros BBQ in South Hill VA.
They also often do a 'fresh critter' brunswick stew. local people
bring in strings of possum, squirrel, rabbit and whatnot. now thats
some thugged out shit
but anyway, my earlier point to other BBQ nazi was that the word
has evolved beyond its narrowest meaning, and there's no getting
around it. I get pissed when i hear people say, like "a car crash
transpired" or something... (transpired = 'breathed between' i.e.
ideas transmitted - not events 'happened')... but the english
teacher who pointed this common error out also noted that hundreds
of words used today no longer mean what they started out as. It's
part of how language works. People use close approximations of what
they mean, and eventually they become more colloquially
'standard'
Doesnt mean you cant still nag people from time to time to
demonstrate your advanced cultural sensitivites :)
JG
THE LORD OF BARBECUE|4.5.07 @ 7:57PM|#
SILENCE! FOOLS! IF YOU SEEK TRUTH, GO NO FURTHER!
http://hkentcraig.com/BBQexp.html
HEATHEN! SLAW, HUSH PUPPIES, AND SWEET TEA ARE THE ONLY ACCECPTABLE
COMPLIMENTS TO FOOD OF THE GODS!
POPE OF PIG
IIXCMXV
highnumber|4.5.07 @ 8:44PM|#
SLAW, HUSH PUPPIES, AND SWEET TEA ARE THE ONLY ACCECPTABLE
COMPLIMENTS TO FOOD OF THE GODS!
So, "Mmmmm, that's good" = no good?
|4.5.07 @ 8:44PM|#
Vinegar is for sinners, true, but at least no one here is suggesting that the substance, "beef" can be barbecued. It can't.
highnumber|4.5.07 @ 8:49PM|#
PL,
I don't eat the pig.
Does this mean I will go to the heaven for Jews & Muslims, only
to be, in some ironic twist, damned to BBQ hell?
ONE TRUE POPE|4.5.07 @ 10:46PM|#
Memphis and Kansas City style are Apostasy.
In Texas they smoke beef, ham, processed turkey roll,
sausage-everything but pork-and call it BBQ. Not only is it not
barbecue it is a heresy
that calls for a supression that would make the fate of
Albigensians and Cathars look like a parking ticket.
Distressed in Dallas|4.6.07 @ 2:59AM|#
I'm sorry, I've spent plenty of time in the "north", and pork
bbq is garbage. I quote Slate, which doesn't know shit, but, at the
same time, probably isn't in the pocket of big texas...
http://www.slate.com/id/2118542/entry/2118544/
Here's the amazing thing about Texas barbecue. Even a
run-of-the-mill place around here is better than the best barbecue
anywhere else.
|4.6.07 @ 9:52AM|#
highnumber,
I consign thee to an eternity at Arby's. Without Arby or Horsey
sauce. Tremble and weep, beef-eating heretic!
Texans of all stripes--I'm talking to you, too. Go eat some
beanless chili and leave barbecue to the professionals.
|4.6.07 @ 12:47PM|#
Feh. All you Eastern folks are just too close to the
Yankees.
Beef ribs are nothing to pork ribs, but denying brisket? Chopped
beef sandwiches?
Hush your mouth, indeed.
Besides, your crusade wouldn't make it to Louisiana.
Mary in LA|4.6.07 @ 2:05PM|#
Hey, Highnumber, don't go knocking Arby's! I have fond memories
of my dear husband taking me to our local Arby's for a romantic
Valentine's Day dinner a couple of years ago.
(No, we weren't broke... just bloody-minded. We both hate all the
Valentine's Day hype, so this was our way of saying, "Love you,
honey -- In your face, Hallmark/FTD/DeBeers!")
As for the (ahem!) actual topic of the thread, well, I'm a
Californian barbecue heathen. Bring on the pork, beef, chicken,
duck, grilled eggplant, marinated summer squash in balsamic vinegar
and rosemary oil, melon kebabs, whatever! It's all good. ;-)
highnumber|4.6.07 @ 2:50PM|#
Talk about bringing it all back home...
For some unfathomable reason, my wife picked up a couple of frozen
California Pizza Kitchen pizzas at the Target last week. We had one
last night (Margherita - meh, I couldn't even taste the basil). On
the box, the founders of the company tell their story. They opened
in 1985 and they claim to have invented BBQ chicken pizza. I do not
believe them. I recall eating "taco pizzas" from the school
cafeteria in the early 80s. I cannot believe that "taco pizzas"
predate BBQ chicken pizzas. Someone from one of the great BBQ
states must be able to confirm that some local pizza joint was
serving BBQ chicken pizzas in the 70s.
|4.6.07 @ 4:28PM|#
RE: Highnumber's disappointing experience with CPK's Pizza
Margherita: Next time, try "Pizza Margarita!"
Pizza Margarita
Gedankenrecipe* by Mary in LA
1 12" pre-baked pizza crust
1/4 cup (or more) olive oil
1 lb. cooked shrimp
1 recipe (3/4 cup) Chile-Tequila Sauce (see
http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/chi_teqsce.html)
Rock salt
Brush pre-baked pizza crust generously with olive oil. Scatter
shrimp over pizza and top with Chile-Tequila Sauce.
Cut one end off the lime and rub the cut end lightly around the rim
of the pizza crust, followed by sprinkles of rock salt. Slice the
rest of the lime; reserve.
Set oven to "Broil". Broil the Pizza Margarita in the oven until
the crust is hot and the sauce starts to bubble, not more than 3 -
4 minutes (if cooked too long, the shrimp will be tough). Remove
from oven, garnish with lime slices, and serve immediately,
accompanied by margaritas of your choice.
*Caution! The sauce recipe is real, but the pizza recipe is
completely made up. Now, of course, I'll have to go home and try
it...
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