"God Created Cows to Go with the BBQ Sauce."


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He!he!he!


What is his excuse for caps-lock?

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I'm a Latin purist. I dont write in those Latinized Arabic subcaps...oops!

Scarab Sages

What about pork then? That goes good with sauce too.

For those of you in the Burlington area (Ontario, Canada), August 29th to September 1st:

Burlington Ribfest!


According to Wikipedia barbeque sauce was likely created in the 17/1800s; according to cave paintings, cows existed, like, way before that. You're putting the cart before the horse, there, buddy.

Scarab Sages

James Keegan wrote:
According to Wikipedia barbeque sauce was likely created in the 17/1800s; according to cave paintings, cows existed, like, way before that. You're putting the cart before the horse, there, buddy.

Are you saying that a deity isn't capable of creating something for a purpose before that purpose exists? Cows were made to give people a reason to make BBQ sauce! ;)

I still stand that Pigs were created for BBQ first.


Jal Dorak wrote:

What about pork then? That goes good with sauce too.

For those of you in the Burlington area (Ontario, Canada), August 29th to September 1st:

Burlington Ribfest!

Guelph's is in and around now too.

Re: the god thing - I'm an atheist but if there were a god she/he would have seen the whole BBQ sauce thing coming and probably put out the cows and pigs. Hey! Maybe that's what happened to the unicorns...

Ciao,
C.

Scarab Sages

Cernunos wrote:


Re: the god thing - I'm an atheist but if there were a god she/he would have seen the whole BBQ sauce thing coming and probably put out the cows and pigs. Hey! Maybe that's what happened to the unicorns...

Ciao,
C.

Mmm. BBQ Unicorn. You could slow cook it on it's own horn!


Jal Dorak wrote:
James Keegan wrote:
According to Wikipedia barbeque sauce was likely created in the 17/1800s; according to cave paintings, cows existed, like, way before that. You're putting the cart before the horse, there, buddy.

Are you saying that a deity isn't capable of creating something for a purpose before that purpose exists? Cows were made to give people a reason to make BBQ sauce! ;)

I still stand that Pigs were created for BBQ first.

If this "God" character was as hung up on barbeque as you claim, why wouldn't rivers just run with the stuff? Why wouldn't the creatures just come right out slathered with it? Have you so little faith in man and his ingenuity and love of killing stuff just because it tastes good that this substance must be ascribed to some creator deity? For shame. For shame.

WHY DOESN'T IT RAIN BACON?! ANSWER ME THAT SMART GUY.


Jal Dorak wrote:
James Keegan wrote:
According to Wikipedia barbeque sauce was likely created in the 17/1800s; according to cave paintings, cows existed, like, way before that. You're putting the cart before the horse, there, buddy.

Are you saying that a deity isn't capable of creating something for a purpose before that purpose exists? Cows were made to give people a reason to make BBQ sauce! ;)

I still stand that Pigs were created for BBQ first.

Good deployment of teleology here, Jal Dorak. I like it.

Scarab Sages

James Keegan wrote:
Jal Dorak wrote:
James Keegan wrote:
According to Wikipedia barbeque sauce was likely created in the 17/1800s; according to cave paintings, cows existed, like, way before that. You're putting the cart before the horse, there, buddy.

Are you saying that a deity isn't capable of creating something for a purpose before that purpose exists? Cows were made to give people a reason to make BBQ sauce! ;)

I still stand that Pigs were created for BBQ first.

If this "God" character was as hung up on barbeque as you claim, why wouldn't rivers just run with the stuff? Why wouldn't the creatures just come right out slathered with it? Have you so little faith in man and his ingenuity and love of killing stuff just because it tastes good that this substance must be ascribed to some creator deity? For shame. For shame.

WHY DOESN'T IT RAIN BACON?! ANSWER ME THAT SMART GUY.

Because if it rained bacon, we would all eat ourselves to death, Roman-style! Duh.

Scarab Sages

Jal Dorak wrote:
Because if it rained bacon, we would all eat ourselves to death, Roman-style! Duh.

Geeze... if that wasn't a call for Vomitorium Guy, I don't know what was!

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Jal Dorak wrote:

What about pork then? That goes good with sauce too.

For those of you in the Burlington area (Ontario, Canada), August 29th to September 1st:

Burlington Ribfest!

Ah, a fellow PETA member I see. That's People Eating Tasty Animals, that is.

Liberty's Edge

Let me get this straight, Lazaro's newborn cousin created barbeque sauce 200 years before he was born to compliment the taste of the meat of animals domesticated thousands of years ago??

Wow, talk about a child prodigy...I guess with those skills, people won't be making fun of his name.

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The Horror!

Barbeque originated with Pork in the American Southeast. (It comes from the Taíno word "barabicu" - which is where we also get "Buccaneer." :) )

So it originally developed to cook seals, fish, and sea turtles.

The first BBQ sauces appeared in the 17th Century, again in the American Southeast.

From what I have been able to determine, Beef was not cooked that way until much latter. Mexican barbacoa is a completely different cooking and seasoning process.


well; BBQ is more than just sauce; most definitions require open flame; so there has been peeps burning meat over open flame for more centuries than there has been either domestication of animals or agriculture; BBQ can be rubs too not just sauce; main ingrediant of a rub is salt then mix in some other spices; even the most ancient of writings talk about salted meat cooked over open flame; BBQ is life with very very ancient roots.

Scarab Sages

For those interested in the history of BBQ, try this academic article instead of Wikipedia - it's much more reliable.

::Doing my part to end Wikipedia's reign of terror::


I love the different regional meanings of the word.

  • When I was a kid in upstate NY, "barbecue" was a verb (not a noun), usually applied to chicken on the 4th of July. BBQ sauce was tomato-based and extremely thick.
  • When I moved to South Carolina, I learned the error of my ways. "Barbecue" is pulled pork, with a mustard-based sauce. Mmmmmm!
  • In Memphis, it basically means pork ribs.
  • Here in Texas, "barbecue" is beef brisket, with a very thin, watery, tomato-based sauce.


  • Yeah, you could have a holy war over barbecue types. I love them all, but there was this place in Savannah I particularly liked, Johnny Harris. Very, very nice, indeed.


    yellowdingo wrote:
    He!he!he!

    Damn straight HE did.

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    Lord Fyre wrote:

    From what I have been able to determine, Beef was not cooked that way until much latter. Mexican barbacoa is a completely different cooking and seasoning process.

    Completely different seem a stretch to me, since it has the same word derivation and also refers to the slow-cooking of meat. That's actually a fair pair of common points right there.

    Of course, BBQ means different things to different people...


    I suggest that anyone interested in BBQ should own "The BBQ Bible" by stephen Riechlen or however its spelled; has a lot of good info and definitions as well as great recipes; his other works are not so great; but the BBQ Bible is a must for any man.


    James Keegan wrote:
    WHY DOESN'T IT RAIN BACON?! ANSWER ME THAT SMART GUY.

    Prove that it does not?

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    CourtFool wrote:
    James Keegan wrote:
    WHY DOESN'T IT RAIN BACON?! ANSWER ME THAT SMART GUY.
    Prove that it does not?

    Because Bacon is not Kosher! Therefore it cannot come from heaven.


    Lord Fyre wrote:
    Because Bacon is not Kosher! Therefore it cannot come from heaven.

    So god did not create all the animals that are not kosher? Well this certainly puts a new spin on things.

    Scarab Sages

    CourtFool wrote:
    Lord Fyre wrote:
    Because Bacon is not Kosher! Therefore it cannot come from heaven.
    So god did not create all the animals that are not kosher? Well this certainly puts a new spin on things.

    Personally, I would first criticize mankind for creating poodles.


    God created canine, humans and he is all knowing. So he is at least partially responsible.

    Scarab Sages

    Poodles don't go good with BBQ sauce.. what am I saying eveything goes good with BBQ sauce.


    Even llama?

    Scarab Sages

    Slo-roasted Llama brisket and pasole... mmmmmmm good.
    And that goes for gunacaos too.

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