Remember the days of health nuts eating wheat bran for breakfast? Well, healthy living just got a whole lot tastier thanks to researchers at the University of North Carolina. A tip of the snout to John Shelton Reed, who alerted us to this article on the Republic of Bacon website. The article reports on a [...]
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Bad news for those of you who like your barbecue with a side of salmonella: The Louisburg-based company The Murphy House has recalled over 4,900 pounds of barbecue due to possible salmonella contamination, so you’ll have to look elsewhere for your ‘cue and ‘nella fix. (Earlier this year the same company had to recall a bad [...]
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A tip of the snout to alert reader Eric “Cracklins” Calhoun, who noticed this gem of an article. To sum up the Associated Press story, a trucker driving on I-5 in Washington state “choked on some spicy pork rinds, lost control of his truck on an interstate and jackknifed it before coming to a stop [...]
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A slew of articles, including this one, have reported the results of a recent study out of Canada that shows certain barbecue sauces are rich in antioxidants. Leaving aside Canadians’ questionable credentials when it comes to barbecue (moose jaw anyone?), as well as the considerable waste of taxpayer money (not mine in this case, thankfully) [...]
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A North Carolina company is following in Toyota’s footsteps with a massive recall of a life endangering product. In this case, the recall has nothing to do with defective gas pedals and isn’t actually that massive. According to this article, The Murphy House of Louisburg is recalling roughly 2,850 pounds of pork barbecue. The company’s pre-packaged [...]
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If a newspaper called the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is to be believed, there is no risk of contracting swine flu from eating barbecue or other pig meat. If you don’t trust anything claimed by papers with the word “Enquirer” in the title, then maybe you’ll trust this article from the Los Angeles Times. If you don’t [...]
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2009 brought us the aporkalypse. No, not the continued advance of gas-cooked barbecue, but the fear-mongering stemming from the ill-named swine flu. Because really, what did swine, and by extension barbecue, ever do to deserve so much hatred? While I’d never heard the term before this week, amazingly, it made The New York Times‘ buzzwords [...]
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As you no doubt have heard by now, unless bbqjew.com is your only source of contact with the outside world (in which case we fear you have more serious problems than the flu), the SWINE FLU has emerged as the leading threat to humankind. As best we can tell, the SWINE FLU! will either a) quickly fade [...]
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