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When I’m trying new barbecue, I always try to find that good thing to say. But sometimes, the best I can do is say, ‘Well, they’ve got good rolls’ or ‘They got good ice tea.’ Anyone in the know will understand what that means.

When you find someone who really searches out the true art of the trade, that’s special.

People like to eat real food.

Good times are always associated with barbecue… It’s the only product that I know that gives you that feeling. Takes you into a natural high. When something great happens, somebody’ll say, ‘Let’s barbecue.’ Because it brings happiness.

I won’t even sell somebody a barbecue unless they get cole slaw. If they want a barbecue and they don’t want cole slaw, there’s something wrong with that person.  It all goes together. You’ve got to have cole slaw and hush puppies with barbecue.

Smoke is mysterious, fire is uncertain, and pit men are expensive. So the mystery, uncertainty, and expense of taking the chance to make great barbecue is being replaced by the quantifiable methods of always making pretty good ‘cue.

I’m not saying that I haven’t found spectacular plates of barbecue during my travels. I have. But the standouts were few and far between, and all of ’em at places that still cook exclusively with wood.

…saying that labor costs can be held down by not having it cooked slowly over a wood fire by a sullen man with a squint was like saying that a symphony orchestra would be cheaper without the violins.

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say ‘Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?’. I’m trying to impress people here Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad.

Need no teef to eat my beef