BBQ - North vs South

[Anonymous]

There really is no "North" BBQ. There's the St. Louis style of dry rubbing, there's the deep South version of saucy pulled pork, there's the Carolina version of a vinegar-based sauce but I can't think of a "Northern" BBQ style. I thought they did boiled dinners up there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if you're actually explaining OP's original intent; maybe OP meant "I am having a cooking outdoors event and want to feature regional food" and then all the southerners ran with the apparent misuse of the term BBQ. I don't think anyone actually believes New England is known for its BBQ (as opposed to its BBQs).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

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Sure. Shrimp and grits, low country boil, crawfish etoufee, none of that stacks up against "Northern food." People are always flocking to New Hampshire for their culinary treasures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if you're actually explaining OP's original intent; maybe OP meant "I am having a cooking outdoors event and want to feature regional food" and then all the southerners ran with the apparent misuse of the term BBQ. I don't think anyone actually believes New England is known for its BBQ (as opposed to its BBQs).

No, OP specifically said she wanted to highlight the differences in Northern and Southern BBQ. There is no Northern BBQ though.

[Anonymous]

Do a pork but -takes about 18 hours some low temp ribs, and iron skillet corn bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do a pork but -takes about 18 hours some low temp ribs, and iron skillet corn bread.

butt that is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

Hahaha bless your heart! You believe that, don't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

Hahaha bless your heart! You believe that, don't you?

Yeah, I knew some of you latitudinally challenged posters would object to that. You're deluded, though. A "low country boil" is just a lesser version of a New England clambake. Shrimp and grits? Can be tasty, but compared to a good bowl of clam chowder and a lobster roll? No contest. And leaving the realm of seafood, when the typical southerner's definition of cuisine is chicken fried everything, there's really not a lot of room left for debate.

Plus, NYC pizza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:.

Plus, NYC pizza.

Really? That's the pizza you're choosing to celebrate? That explains quite a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:.

Plus, NYC pizza.

Really? That's the pizza you're choosing to celebrate? That explains quite a lot.

Of course it is. Are you one of those barbarians from Chicago, who thinks pizza should start with a dinner roll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:.

Plus, NYC pizza.

Really? That's the pizza you're choosing to celebrate? That explains quite a lot.

Of course it is. Are you one of those barbarians from Chicago, who thinks pizza should start with a dinner roll? [/quote

Sorry, California trumps everyone on pizza. NY is second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

Hahaha bless your heart! You believe that, don't you?

Yeah, I knew some of you latitudinally challenged posters would object to that. You're deluded, though. A "low country boil" is just a lesser version of a New England clambake. Shrimp and grits? Can be tasty, but compared to a good bowl of clam chowder and a lobster roll? No contest. And leaving the realm of seafood, when the typical southerner's definition of cuisine is chicken fried everything, there's really not a lot of room left for debate.

Plus, NYC pizza.

Leaving pizza completely out of it, you said the north beats the south on seafood. that's what I was disagreeing with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought "northern" BBQ was basically just Manwhich sloppy joe sauce.

Yeah, I am a proud Northerner, and until I got to college in Virginia, I thought BBQ was an event where people came over to your house and you grilled hot dogs and burgers.

Now, if you wanted to do a seafood content, the South would get torched - just as badly as when Sherman went through Atlanta. With limited exceptions, southern food doesn't stack up well against northern food.

Hahaha bless your heart! You believe that, don't you?

Yeah, I knew some of you latitudinally challenged posters would object to that. You're deluded, though. A "low country boil" is just a lesser version of a New England clambake. Shrimp and grits? Can be tasty, but compared to a good bowl of clam chowder and a lobster roll? No contest. And leaving the realm of seafood, when the typical southerner's definition of cuisine is chicken fried everything, there's really not a lot of room left for debate.

Plus, NYC pizza.

Agree to disagree. New Englanders boil a sea cockroach and serve it with butter and I'm supposed to declare that better than shrimp and grits? OKAY!

[Anonymous]

California trumps on pizza?? What planet? We about starved for pizza living in CA. Come back with fish tacos and then we can talk. The only good pizza in CA is that place in SD that sells NY style pizza, but this is off topic.

I am a full-on northerner but unlike some transplants south of the mason-dixon can gratefully acknowledge that southern food has it ALL over northern food in every way. Best thing going on in the North is Italian food. Yum.