- Don’t be tempted by the devil’s offerings…
I was saving this juicy barbe-political story for closer to the Republican primaries, but the News & Observer couldn’t resist and scooped me. Oh well, it’s a pig eat pig world in barbecue journalism.
As described in yesterday’s N&O Dome politics blog: “According to ‘Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue,’ in 1992 when [Rick] Perry was a promising Texas politician but not yet governor, he tried some Eastern North Carolina barbecue from King’s of Kinston, which was served at the Republican National Convention in Houston. ‘I’ve had road kill that tasted better than that,’ Perry was quoted as saying.”
That may well be a quote Rick Perry lives to regret, and not just because he freely admits to dining on road kill. (Since Perry strikes me as a bit of a vulture, his carrion-based diet is not all that surprising.) Unless Perry can prove that in Texas there are a lot of delicious road killed beef briskets littering the highways, he’d better prepare a written apology to the people of North Carolina for insulting our beloved state dish. Mitt, if you’re listening, this could be your big chance since your attempts to point out that Rick Perry is a lunatic thus far appear to be falling on deaf ears.
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