BBQ - North vs South

[Anonymous]

Very interesting I had never thought of it, but it is so true, the north has nothing to contribute to the culinary world. Thinking of my inlaws from Massachusetts, they BOIL ribs. Nothing more disgusting.

My dads family is from the south and holy shit, the sausage gravy and biscuits are amazing. Somehow even though my grandmother saves bacon grease and cooks everything in it is still alive at the age of 92. I eat healthy and will probably die earlier than her.

[Anonymous]

The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

[Anonymous]

CA pizza is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

Southerners have unsweetened corn bread?

I am guessing you have never actually eaten corn bread (or really any food) in the south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

Wtf are you people talking about?? Southerners put honey in their cornbread. I'm from Georgia and my cornbread is sweet an moist... From honey. It's northern cornbread that doesn't even have sugar in it. It's like cracker meal or something- dry and bland. Either none of you have ever actually eaten in the south or you're misguided and consider places like Indiana "the south."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

Wtf are you people talking about?? Southerners put honey in their cornbread. I'm from Georgia and my cornbread is sweet an moist... From honey. It's northern cornbread that doesn't even have sugar in it. It's like cracker meal or something- dry and bland. Either none of you have ever actually eaten in the south or you're misguided and consider places like Indiana "the south."

Maybe it is the Puritan heritage. Dry, sawdust like cornbread that sucks the saliva out of your mouth is probably morally superior or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

You must have never ate corn bread in the USA. Or you are just that ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

You must have never ate corn bread in the USA. Or you are just that ignorant.

She clearly has never had any of my buttermilk cornbread. My very Yankee co-workers cannot get enough if it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to be a turd in the BBQ sauce, but it's:

Carolina
Texas
Kansas City
Memphis

St Louis, not so much.

St. Louis has some of the most highly regarded, championship Bbq in the US. You do notknow anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to be a turd in the BBQ sauce, but it's:

Carolina
Texas
Kansas City
Memphis

St Louis, not so much.

St. Louis has some of the most highly regarded, championship Bbq in the US. You do notknow anything.

Source?

[Anonymous]

This thread is getting silly.

I have a ton of southern pride and I worked as a chef in the south for several years. I love new southern cuisine and think Atlanta is currently one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S. (Certainly ahead of D.C.)

But let’s be honest, here: the south’s contributions to American food are trivial compared to the north’s. In fact, the only reason we think of the south as having a more defined culinary history is because northern food has been so much more influential that we’ve stopped thinking of northern food as regional food anymore.

Sure, fried chicken, chicken and biscuits, and shrimp and grits are all wonderful dishes.

You know what the north is responsible for? Hamburgers, hot dogs, New York-style pizza, chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, fish sticks, potato chips, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, hard pretzels, apple pie, cereal, Thanksgiving dinner, the Reuben sandwich, Philly cheese steaks, blueberry cobbler, chocolate chip cookies, buffalo wings, lobster rolls, chowder, baked beans, crab cakes, Twinkies, pot roast, the club sandwich, ice cream sundaes, brownies, the cupcake, flapjacks (or any risen pancake) . . .

In short, virtually any food you would find at a sporting event and the overwhelming majority of classic American fare comes from the North.

(And sure, a lot of the above food is frequently made poorly these days, but they spread across the country and the world because they were great dishes. And lord knows, its easy to find terrible Southern fried chicken. . . )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is getting silly.

I have a ton of southern pride and I worked as a chef in the south for several years. I love new southern cuisine and think Atlanta is currently one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S. (Certainly ahead of D.C.)

But let’s be honest, here: the south’s contributions to American food are trivial compared to the north’s. In fact, the only reason we think of the south as having a more defined culinary history is because northern food has been so much more influential that we’ve stopped thinking of northern food as regional food anymore.

Sure, fried chicken, chicken and biscuits, and shrimp and grits are all wonderful dishes.

You know what the north is responsible for? Hamburgers, hot dogs, New York-style pizza, chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, fish sticks, potato chips, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, hard pretzels, apple pie, cereal, Thanksgiving dinner, the Reuben sandwich, Philly cheese steaks, blueberry cobbler, chocolate chip cookies, buffalo wings, lobster rolls, chowder, baked beans, crab cakes, Twinkies, pot roast, the club sandwich, ice cream sundaes, brownies, the cupcake, flapjacks (or any risen pancake) . . .

In short, virtually any food you would find at a sporting event and the overwhelming majority of classic American fare comes from the North.

(And sure, a lot of the above food is frequently made poorly these days, but they spread across the country and the world because they were great dishes. And lord knows, its easy to find terrible Southern fried chicken. . . )

And your point is...

With the exception of mac n cheese and Thanksgiving dinner, most of those items are hardly culinary gifts to America

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The North has way better corn bread. Sorry Southerners, your unsweetened cornbread sucks.

You must have never ate corn bread in the USA. Or you are just that ignorant.

http://www.examiner.com/article/northern-cornbread-versus-southern-cornbread-with-add-ideas

You and the other posters are actually "that ignorant." Southern cornbread traditionally features less sugar, and is traditionally more crumbly, per to article and ATK. If you are putting honey in the batter, congrats, you are making northern style cakey cornbread.

[Anonymous]

hmm cobbler, pie, flapjacks and baked beans are British imports.

[Anonymous]

So are New Englanders. Hence the name.