Well, here’s a reason:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/national/Winnipeg+woman+finds+squirrel+toilet+fishes+critter+with/8521818/story.html
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Need Another Reason Not to Eat BBQ in Canada?
Posted on June 16, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
Adam Wainwright, My New Hero
Posted on May 27, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
Those of you who know Porky LeSwine well are aware that he loves the St. Louis Cardinals as much as he loves barbecue. (He also loves to talk about himself in the third person from time to time.) Thus, Porky was thrilled to see this article about Cards’ ace pitcher, Adam Wainwright. An avid BBQ eater, Wainwright offers that, “bad barbecue makes me want to fight somebody.” I know what he means, though I’m not sure I’d phrase it quite that way.
Apologies to the 99% of you readers who find this post completely uninteresting. Mr. Wainwright, if you are reading this article then please know that: a) you are an honorable man, b) I’ll buy you a plate of NC barbecue anytime and c) you really ought to send me some complimentary playoff tickets.
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BBQ Royalty (& Me)
Posted on April 14, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
To the naked eye, the below picture might look simply like four pale guys grinning like idiots. In fact, it’s a veritable barbecue all-star team grinning like idiots (and a couple of cute kids who are blessed to look more like my wife than me).
Pictured from left to right (excluding the kids): your very own Porky LeSwine, Daniel Vaughn (@bbqsnob), John Shelton Reed (@smartlyavoidstwitter), and Nicholas McWhirter (@redblank).
Mr. Reed, of Holy Smoke fame, should need no introduction to North Carolina barbecue enthusiasts. Daniel (author) and Nicholas (photographer) are the talented team behind the soon-to-be-released book, The Prophets of Smoked Meat. Good folk everyone of them, and it was a pleasure to “break hush puppies” with them.
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Judas Pigs
Posted on April 11, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
If I was looking for a new name for this blog, it’d surely be Judas Pig. That turn of phrase alone would make this article on the war on feral hogs worth reading. What exactly is a Judas pig? According to the article, “Essentially, after capturing and killing a hog family, hunters will leave a sow alive and outfit her with a microchip or tracking collar. Then, when she finds a new group of pigs to join, hunters can use the GPS data and descend on the unsuspecting creatures.” Sounds more like Catholic crusade pigs to me, but I digress…
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Blogging Down the Drain
Posted on April 2, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
Being a member of the bloggerati has its perks–samples of barbecue sauce, newly published cookbooks and other goodies sent for free through the mail. And now, completely resetting the bar, this press release directed to my BBQJew at gmail.com account…
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Cintas’ Annual “Bowl Game” is Back!
Cintas kicks off the 12th annual
America’s Best Restroom Contest
Cincinnati, OH- April 1, 2013- Cintas Corporation (CTAS) is now accepting nominations for its annual America’s Best Restroom Contest, where the “top 10 places to go—when you’ve got to go” are identified and then voted on by the Internet public in an all out battle of the bowls.
“Cintas launched the America’s Best Restroom Contest twelve years ago to raise awareness of the importance of hygiene and to salute those businesses which strive for restroom excellence in both function and design,” said John Engel, Cintas’ Senior Marketing Manager.
For more than 80 years, Cintas has serviced businesses nationwide and their clientele, who recognize the correlation between clean restrooms and customer satisfaction and retention. “It makes smart business sense - everyone can appreciate a clean, well-maintained and innovatively designed restroom,” Engel added.
Do you own your own establishment? Are you the creative mind or part of a team behind the restroom design inside of one? Or have you patronized a particularly memorable facility?
The contest is open to any non-residential restroom in the U.S. that is accessible to the general public. Entries will be judged on cleanliness, visual appeal, innovation, functionality and unique design elements.
“Nominees and finalists run the gamut, from historical buildings or five star luxury hotels and restaurants in big cities, to gas stations along remote highways and mom & pop style diners in the rural Midwest,” says Sabrina Zimring, Survey Editor for Cintas’ America’s Best Restroom Contest.
Visit the Best Restroom Facebook page, Twitter account, YouTube Channel and Instagram to post comments, receive contest updates, share photos or upload videos; links to the sites are on the contest homepage.
Ten finalists will be announced in August, at which time online voting will begin. The winner and runner-up will be revealed this fall during a nationally publicized media event, and the top vote getters will secure a place in Cintas’ America’s Best Restroom Contest Hall of Fame…
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For the record, I have not yet dared visit the Best Restroom YouTube Channel. We live in interesting times indeed.
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New Year’s Diet in Style: Barbecue
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Porky LeSwine
Just in time for everyone to make their New Year’s resolution about losing weight: the BBQ Diet. Learn more–or don’t and make it up yourself–at
https://twitter.com/BBQDiet
. Sadly, the barbecue these dieters are referring to is primarily of the bastardized verb variety–grilling, by any other name.
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Help a German Learn About ‘Cue
Posted on September 22, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Somewhat ironically, BBQJew.com has offered to help a German journalist who is writing a story on North Carolina barbecue. The journalist, Merten Worthmann, writes for Zeit Magazine, a German publication, and will be in town this coming week to tour the state and its barbecue. Merten is eager to find a pig pickin’, BBQ fundraiser or other such event to attend while in our state and I don’t know of any going on next week (between Wednesday and Saturday). Any ideas? I’m sure he’d love an invite to an authentic family or church/synagogue/mosque pig pickin’…
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Waste Not, Want Not
Posted on July 16, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Thanks to the illustrious J.S. Reed for sending along the below image of a World War II British propaganda poster. The poster begs the question as to whether loyal citizens should save pork scraps should to feed the hogs. Yes would be my guess, as the way that fat pig is winking and grinning, it looks like he’s been eating barbecue.
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Andy Griffith, Apple Pie, Pork and Bluegrass
Posted on July 4, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Happy Fourth of July everyone! There are few things more American than Andy Griffith, who recently passed away in his beloved our beloved home state of North Carolina. I was trying to figure out an excuse to talk about Andy on this blog but it seemed like a stretch. I mean, what does Andy Griffith have to do with pork? Well, my good friend Eric “Cracklin’s” Calhoun answerwed that question for me with the following video. Take a look and pay your respects to the man who everyone loved and who helped give NC a good name (even if most of us have been subject to a handful of Mayberry-golly-gee stereotypes over the years!).
Andy, you’re an honorary BBQ Jew in my book. Rest in peace.
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Major League Blogging
Posted on June 26, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Like many underprepared minor league players before me, an injury-decimated major league squad had no choice but call me up. Or at least that’s my assumption.
I received an invitation to guest blog for the Southern Foodways Alliance during their summer of barbecue blogging. I can only assume this means that their starting bloggers all came down with swine flu, and nobody else was left. Or maybe there just aren’t many folks willing to write posts for someone else’s blog without pay. Either way, I’m happy to help, as the SFA is a spectacularly cool organization. Give them a Google if you don’t know what they do, and come on over and visit me and the other summer bloggers in the weeks ahead at
http://southernfoodways.blogspot.com
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