Why is Brooklyn barbecue taking over the world? https://t.co/aiemJpWxZw pic.twitter.com/dGPyQ7X912
— MUNCHIES (@munchies) March 4, 2018
I put up with being lectured at by Andrew Cuomo.
I put up with Michael Bloomberg pushing gun control and interfering in elections outside of New York City.
I put up with Chuck Schumer trying to take my rights away from me.
But I will not put up with this. On behalf of the Great State of Alabama and the South in general, fuck you! I don’t know what that that is, but it isn’t BBQ.
When they launched, Carroll didn’t have a BBQ background and wasn’t interested in following the footsteps of the Carolinas, Memphis, or Texas. “That’s not where my heart was,” he said. He grew up in Northern New Jersey and wanted to create something that relates to the area.
Let me be clear on this, a guy from New Jersey who opens a restaurant in Brooklyn knows nothing about BBQ.
If you want good BBQ, you don’t go to a place that hired a hip, urban interior designer, and unless you are in Cajun country in Louisiana, you sure as fuck don’t give it a French name.
You find a shack with a hand painted sign with a big steel smoker out back that you can smell for miles. The guy behind the counter cutting the meat weights over 400 lbs, is wearing overalls, and has a cholesterol count of about 700.
That is good BBQ.
“Even our rub has espresso in it. I mean what’s more New York than that?”
Those are fighting words. You do understand that?
First you fuckers try to take my guns away, and now you are trying to ruin BBQ.
That’s it, we’re done here, that is the last straw.
I am submitting Articles of Secession over this.
New Jersey barbecue? What, is it smoked over a burning tire?
I wonder what their reaction would be if:
When they launched, Scrappycrow didn’t have a pizza background and wasn’t interested in following the footsteps of NY or Chicago. “That’s not where my heart was,” he said. He grew up in Georgia and wanted to create something that relates to the area.
So where’s the BBQ? All I saw was some brisket on a plate with a couple store bought dinner rolls. Don’t those yankee assholes even know how to make biscuits? And what are those pickles for? They sure as shit won’t fit on a sandwich.
If I’m every in Iowa again, I need to get a port tenderloin sandwich. One of those that is about the size of a Frisbee, pounded flat. I got introduced to them in Indiana and when I moved to Omaha I’d sneak across the river for one every now and then.
I can’t say much about BBQ in the mid west (I didn’t see many BBQ restaurants out there) but I couldn’t find a bad burger in Omaha.
Lone Watie: We thought about it for a long time, “Endeavor to persevere.” And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.
That plate did not look very appetizing. Not a fan of Carolina Q, but at least it is Q. I prefer Texas or Memphis style myself, but can appreciate most others. THAT stuff won’t be taking over anything.
Fits the typical NY city view that the US consists of NYC and Jersey Suburbs, LA, Fisco and nothing else.
Over my career I’ve had the blessing to sample BBQ from Carolina (East and West), Tennessee, Texas, St. Louis, and Kansas City. I have my own preferences that change with my mood, but I’ve never had, nor will I ever I ever have tried something called “Brooklyn BBQ.”
There are still regional food specialties in this country, but you have to get away from the restaurant chains and find the family owned places that have been around for ages. Note it IS possible to find good BBQ outside the South and Southwest, but it has to be run by a transplant matching J’s description.
It is NY, what do you expect? I am willing to bet this guy has never tried the real shit or he would not have dared to present that plate. That “brisket” looks dry.
(Update) He went to Hawaii and probably ate somebody’s version of a Luau. There might be a reason why we have them King Hawaiian buns there
WTF?, putting espresso on your meat is NY? I thought that was Portland, where they put coffee in beer.
I’m from New York and I can articulate the differences in regional styles and have the sense to get my BBQ from some place that identifies with an actual region. Next he’ll claim his Pastrami is California style.
“Brooklyn barbecue…”
Aw… they think they can make “good” BBQ. That’s adorable. LOL!
Bless their little hearts. 😉
The corner Sonny’s by my house makes better BBQ that these yankees ever hope to do. And I consider that Sonny’s sort-of-OK BBQ compared to other places I’ve been in the south.
When I heard the term Brooklyn Barbecue on the radio, I thought it must be a rat smoked over a tire fire.
I love the “taking over the world” part for something that’s probably popular over about a four block radius in one city.
Having had barbecue across the south, (my latest fave is Alabama white sauces) you can bet your butt I won’t cross the street for anything out of Brooklyn.
I can get better BBQ than that at the corner gas station here in KC.
Looks hideous.
Isn’t this culinary appropriation?
Well when the “World” is defined as NYC and some small bits of other coastal cities, then it is easy to “take over the world”.