I Believe in Barbecue

As NPR rolled this morning's installment of "This I Believe", I heard this sentence among the affirmations: "I believe in barbecue."

Out of curiosity, I checked online, and found the source installment from the series, from Memorial Day 2006. I thought at least a few LTH'ers would be interested...

Jason Sheehan wrote:"After listening to the results of this project for several weeks, I knew I could do three minutes, too. Certainly not on world peace or the search for meaning in an increasingly distracted world or anything as grave and serious as all that, but on a belief just as true.

I believe in barbecue. As soul food and comfort food and health food, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration. When I'm feeling good, I want barbecue. And when I'm feeling bad, I just want barbecue more."

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Read the whole essay here:
NPR : There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue

I was enjoying and agreeing with every word until I came to this:

I believe -- I know -- there is no such thing as too much barbecue. Good, bad or in-between, old-fashioned pit-smoked or high-tech and modern; it doesn't matter.

Say what? Maybe I could do three minutes on why there is too much bad BBQ in the world and that is the reason why there is so little peace in this increasingly distracted world.

Bill/SFNM

Bill/SFNM wrote:Say what? Maybe I could do three minutes on why there is too much bad BBQ in the world and that is the reason why there is so little peace in this increasingly distracted world.

Bill/SFNM

Do it! You can submit your essay for consideration online.