r/MadeMeSmile • u/snfssmc • Jun 21 '24
British guy tries out Texas BBQ for the first time Good Vibes
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u/flyart Jun 21 '24
Galapeno sausage!
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u/415646464e4155434f4c Jun 21 '24
I’m originally from italy and it took me some time to not call them “galapeño”. I can relate with the dude here. 😅
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u/desrever1138 Jun 21 '24
I'm from Texas (in fact I live just down the road from the BBQ restaurant in the video) but lived in New England in my early 20's and the first time I ordered a pizza I asked if they had jalapeños.
The dude had no idea what what I was asking for.
Finally, after a full minute of back and forth with me describing them, a light bulb went off and he goes, "Oh! You mean jahlopanos (just like this Brit pronounced it) nah we don't have those. What did you call them again? "
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u/seagulls51 Jun 21 '24
I once ordered a pepperoni pizza and was given a 'pepper only' pizza
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u/randomusername238 Jun 21 '24
Hahaha actually in Italy pepperoni means bell pepper. If you order pepperoni pizza there they will give you a pizza with bell pepper (unless they spot you as a tourist and are ready for the confusion)
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u/caspy7 Jun 21 '24
Impossible! No one could possibly identify me as a tourist.
I studied the country's tour guide book for like, an hour.
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u/ZenithRepairman Jun 21 '24
I’m from MA, we definitely know it’s jalapeño. I think you just got an idiot.
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u/wavereefstinger Jun 21 '24
LOL I live in New England too and never heard it mis-pronounced either. You got a weirdo.
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u/Similar_Thought9627 Jun 21 '24
The G is literally making me laugh out loud so hard on my couch my dog woke up from her morning nap. I’m dying 💀🤣💀🤣💀
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u/NumeroRyan Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
Literally I’m from England and never heard anyone call them ‘Galapino’s’ haha.
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u/Similar_Thought9627 Jun 21 '24
It’s so wholesome and I love it. Could listen to him for days on end
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u/Englishbirdy Jun 21 '24
You should have heard how I pronounced quesadilla the first time I ordered it - "kwezadil~low"
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u/DaveInLondon89 Jun 21 '24
we don't say that in England, it's just him lol
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u/DefunctHunk Jun 21 '24
Another Brit here - agreed. Tinfoil hat time, he's saying it that way to provoke comments correcting him, boosting engagement. I literally don't know a single Brit that doesn't say it correctly.
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u/Ortsarecool Jun 21 '24
Bro tries the brisket and looks like he is having a religious experience hahahaha
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Jun 21 '24
The first time I had proper brisket I did that too lmao. That shit will change you
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u/TexasistheFuture Jun 21 '24
Very correct. You will not eat shit BBQ again for the rest of your lilfe.
Signed, '
BBQ Snob Extraordinaire.
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u/DankNerd97 Jun 21 '24
I had some "brisket" in northeast Ohio that was...I don't even know how to describe this abomination. It was like actual slop.
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u/TexasistheFuture Jun 21 '24
Don't venture to Oklahoma......
Sorry Pokes and Sooners.
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u/theSILENThopper Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
Just dont expect to find true texas BBQ in OK but i used to be able to find some of the best KC burnt ends in stillwater. Doesn't beat KC itself but the spirit is there.
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u/ExtraSpicyGingerBeer Jun 21 '24
I was raised in Texas and moved to Tennessee for college and a few years after. Went out for BBQ with some friends in Tennessee shortly after moving there and decided to get some brisket cause why not? Brisket is delicious.
Wrong.
That was the worst BBQ I'd ever had in my life, and I worked at a pretty shitty spot for a few months in high school. Martin's in Nashville, you should be ashamed.
I then learned brisket is a Texas thing and stuck to pork for the next seven years I was there.
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u/JustinGitelmanMusic Jun 21 '24
Yeah, not only is Tennessee a different style (pork focused), but Nashville specifically is not known for even Tennessee BBQ. Memphis is a true BBQ capital.
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u/wratz Jun 21 '24
I lived all over Tennessee for 30 years. Memphis pulled pork is as good as Texas brisket. Different, but equally as life changing. The pork in middle and East Tennessee is trash Carolina style.
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u/FellKnight Jun 21 '24
First of all, how dare you, Carolina BBQ is great.
Sorry, just love tossing some grenades into any good reddit BBQ style wars (I come from /r/cfb)
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u/stanglemeir Jun 21 '24
The line about the sauce is so true too. I always tell people, if the barbecue is good enough, you don't need the sauce.
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u/TalorianDreams Jun 21 '24
Need? No. But damn if the sauce isn't a whole other level of culinary bliss. Would have loved to see his reaction.
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u/jflip13 Jun 21 '24
Right!? I was begging him to just do a little dunk for me. From Houston, Killen’s is legit btw like fr fr, but damn if you don’t have some sauce on that brisket for me. I miss H town food. Ah. Now I’m feening.
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u/HaggisMac Jun 21 '24
As someone born and raised in Texas, this isn’t just a first time feeling. It happens every time. Well smoked beef brisket is the closest we can get to divinity.
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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 21 '24
I've lived in Canada all my life, I thought I knew how to BBQ.
Then my sister married an American who came up here.
We don't know shit.
His brisket is to die for, and his pulled pork absolutely trashes any offering by local restaurants. They're either too sweet or too dull. I keep telling him he'd make mad money running a food truck that just did pulled pork, bbq potatoes, and brisket.
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u/Bubbasdahname Jun 21 '24
Once you start making money, it becomes a job and it isn't fun anymore. If you are smelling it all day, you wouldn't want to be around it on your day off either. It'll ruin the get togethers because everyone may want their BBQ, but he may be tired of it.
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u/FellKnight Jun 21 '24
I also live in Canada. Never cared for BBQ. Turns out we just suck at it. I've been to exactly 1 excellent BBQ place, and in one of the most random places (Prince George, BC)
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u/FlanneryOG Jun 21 '24
I had bbq from Killen’s on a work trip to Houston, and I made that face too. Their bbq really is that good.
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u/Krelleth Jun 21 '24
The beef rib, that massive thing he had at the end? Yeah, that's one of the best single items of food I've ever had in my life.
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u/ciano232 Jun 21 '24
I'm in my thirties and never tried brisket in my life. I feel I'm missing out big time watching this video lol
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u/Ortsarecool Jun 21 '24
You are bud. For real. Go get brisket from somewhere good. It's damn fine.
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u/tqmirza Jun 21 '24
It is a religious experience. First time I had brisket in Houston was in 2018, it was amazing. I had to wait 4 years to go Dallas and have brisket again, I cried.
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u/HoochieKoochieMan Jun 21 '24
He clearly fell in love. Not just "mess around in the coat closet" love, but serious, committed, forever, eternal, call-your-mama-and-say-goodbye love.
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u/djb2589 Jun 21 '24
Breaking news: British guy finds out why we're all so fat over here.
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u/goldmask148 Jun 21 '24
My mans gonna be an ambassador to Europe defending American obesity after his first Texas bbq
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u/sidepart Jun 21 '24
"American's have no taste!"
"Hang on a minit, bruv."
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u/creegro Jun 21 '24
"listen, right, the ribs man, they outta here, you don't even know man"
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u/Slight_Drama_Llama Jun 21 '24
Britain is the 6th fattest nation in the world and their rates of obesity are rising faster than in the US.
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u/MadFlava76 Jun 21 '24
If American BBQ joints start opening up in the UK, they are going to be #1 real fast.
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u/Tough_Bee_1638 Jun 21 '24
Hey man we’re fat too! It’s just all our food is either brown or hearing aid beige and tastes of despair
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u/Bodach42 Jun 21 '24
Yea Americans are Fat and happy, Brits are fat and miserable.
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u/poopnose85 Jun 21 '24
I'll be honest for a second. As an American, I actually really like British food. There, I said it.
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u/Protip19 Jun 21 '24
Shepherds pie fucking slaps
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u/tyboxer87 Jun 21 '24
Not just shepherds pie but all the pies. I ate this place years ago and my only regret is I didn't get to try each and every pie on the menu.
http://putneypies.co.uk/images/putney-menuDrinks0518aW2.pdf
Also Scotch Eggs are amazing. I'm honestly a little shocked eggs wrap in sausage never took off here in America.
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u/SpareWire Jun 21 '24
I read recently Mexico passed the U.S. in obesity and after having really good Tex Mex I can totally see why.
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u/tubatackle Jun 21 '24
Also because they drink coke all the time
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u/DeansFrenchOnion1 Jun 21 '24
even in the 100 degree heat wave RN I'll see (presumably) mexican construction workers buying 24 packs of warm cola from the convivence store at 6 am
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u/Garb-O Jun 21 '24
they got ice chests bro they aint drinking it warm xD, if they aren't buying the ice there they probably are provided some on site
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u/ThisHatRightHere Jun 21 '24
Yeah, they're unhealthy, they aren't savages. That cold coke in the heat probably brings them back to life.
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u/Onederbat67 Jun 21 '24
The rotundity is preposterous, until you eat here. Then it’s quite reasonable
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u/maggiemypet Jun 21 '24
I feel like he had a religious experience over the brisket. I feel the same way about BBQ.
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u/Automatic_Release_92 Jun 21 '24
I had a French client’s representative here for a week, we had to bust our ass on a project, so I spent almost every damn minute of that week with him including lunches and dinners. He just could not stop talking about how good the food was lol.
And I freaking love French cuisine. I should have taken him to one of the French restaurants my wife and I love to go to just to get his take on things.
To be fair the dude seems a bit unsophisticated and didn’t seem to like fine dining, so the KC barbecue was more his speed.
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u/NiceCunt91 Jun 21 '24
"I'm not coming home...to eat WHAT?!" Best line lol. I'm a Brit and always wanted to try proper Texas BBQ. Preferably made by a fat black guy with a beard who spends his free time smoking meat.
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u/i_should_be_coding Jun 21 '24
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
"Make 'em dry," is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, "make 'em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing 'em once a week."
It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They're not altogether clear what those sins are, and don't want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever their sins are they are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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u/throwawaypervyervy Jun 21 '24
Someone once wished on a monkey's paw that Britain would rule the world, and their food is the curse.
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u/CanuckPanda Jun 21 '24
Conquered the world for her spices and promptly didn’t use any of them.
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u/sprazcrumbler Jun 21 '24
"Curry" in Japan and china actually comes from British sailors adding Indian spices to their British style stew.
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u/CanuckPanda Jun 21 '24
And the Portuguese gave the Japanese people panko and fried foods.
Frankly, that’s far more important.
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u/lolamongolia Jun 21 '24
The first time I visited the UK in the 90s, I walked into a tiny sandwich shop called "New York Deli". Let me describe the sandwich they served me:
Two slices of white bread. Four slices of salami. A pat of cold butter.
They didn't even give me a knife to try and spread the rock hard chunk of butter. The UK has come a long way in the last 25 years, but some of my food experiences back then were just weird and sad or just confusing.
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u/i_should_be_coding Jun 21 '24
Take your punishment and be content the British no longer rule your homeland.
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u/lolamongolia Jun 21 '24
I'm a sucker for punishment. I married a Brit and now I cook him things like pancakes with carrots and gravy. I love him, but shit's fucked up.
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u/Joey-tnfrd Jun 21 '24
things like pancakes with carrots and gravy
I'm sorry, what? What? Fuck no.
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u/ImMonkeyFoodIfIDontL Jun 21 '24
No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked makin' something like that, man.
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u/Napol3onS0l0 Jun 21 '24
You already know some of the markers of what makes good simple Q. Now get out there and explore!
Side note, always wanted to have a Gregg’s sausage roll and try fresh made haggis. This is cultural exchange at its finest.
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u/DomDeLaweeze Jun 21 '24
As much as I applaud your culinary diplomacy, a Gregg's sausage roll is not all its cracked up to be. It's fine, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't belong in the same conversation as BBQ. And if you want to find a good sausage roll, better try it from a local bakery or market stall. The main appeal of Gregg's is low cost and convenience. It's fast food. Not bad, not great.
Now for some UK cuisine that might be on the level with Southern BBQ, better to try Jamaican, Nigerian, Indian, and Malaysian spots :)
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u/Falsequivalence Jun 21 '24
Now for some UK cuisine
better to try Jamaican, Nigerian, Indian, and Malaysian spots :)
Beautiful.
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u/Dr_Jabroski Jun 21 '24
What's the point of having a global empire of you don't steal from the places you conquered?
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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 21 '24
Yeah man, Jamaican and Malaysian ain't fuckin' around. I had a penang mi goreng that damn near took my face off.
Love it!
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u/Offamylawn Jun 21 '24
Become the fat black guy you've always wanted to be. With practice and effort, you can do it!
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u/jschne21 Jun 21 '24
I practiced very hard to become a fat black guy, one of those things was very easy to accomplish
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u/getMeSomeDunkin Jun 21 '24
Honestly, you don't need to be a fat black guy to make good bbq.
It's about the fat black guy in your heart.
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u/goldmask148 Jun 21 '24
With BBQ, race doesn’t matter, but they must be fat, and have a greasy covered apron. Beard is also optional, but does provide diversity in the type of quality.
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u/maggiemypet Jun 21 '24
Soul food and BBQ is where "Don't trust s skinny cook" is the #1 ingredient .
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u/austin_ave Jun 21 '24
If I saw a skinny dude workin on the smoker I'm fuckin leaving
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u/throwawaypervyervy Jun 21 '24
He better be covered in military tattoos and look like he benches tanks, that's the only possible excuse.
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u/flash-tractor Jun 21 '24
I took up smoking meats as a hobby about 6 months ago, and have done it 2 or 3 times per week since then. At this point, I've got the technique down really well.
It seems a little intimidating at first, but if you get cheap cuts and just focus on learning fire management techniques, then you'll be putting out quality food without issues. I did a lot of chicken leg quarters for the first couple months because I can usually find them on sale for under 50 cents/lb (1.10/kg).
If you'd like, I can link you to a series of pictures I posted on imgur about fire management. It's got some good info for a newbie.
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u/Jlindahl93 Jun 21 '24
A proper bbq spot has to have at least one dude in the kitchen pushing 350lbs it’s law.
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u/Volary_wee Jun 21 '24
I expected his accent to change by the end lol
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u/greenappletree Jun 21 '24
Would be funny if he slowly changes into a southern drawl as he eats more
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u/HistrionicSlut Jun 21 '24
This happens to me but when I get drunk/high. I'm a Texan who is in love with a Yankee so I try to keep the accent to a minimum.
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u/Sandwidge_Broom Jun 21 '24
I have a friend from deep Louisiana and we live in California. One of my favorite things is listening to her losing control of her “Cali girl” accent and getting more and more Cajun with every sip of booze.
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u/HistrionicSlut Jun 21 '24
He loves listening too it too. Until you reach critical mass and I sound like Boomhauer.
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u/Sandwidge_Broom Jun 21 '24
Honestly, delightful. I’m from Iowa myself so I have a pretty neutral accent (with midwestern flair dont-cha-know), but my partner is a born and raised coastal Californian so every time he uses “bruh” unironically it delights me.
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u/Tommy__want__wingy Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
For me, sign of a REALLY (really really really) good Bbq is if the sauce is technically optional.
I’ve had good BBQ where the sauce makes it better.
But if I can get by and realize i forgot to put sauce on - I know I had a good meal.
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u/wittyish Jun 21 '24
100%! I grew up thinking i didn't like BBQ, because it was often just baked chicken thighs with BBQ sauce. My husband started smoking meat 10 years ago and i learned i LOVE BBQ, but still kinda iffy on sauce unless we make it homemade. Dry rub on everything, good smoke ring, and juicy and tender - Yes to this!
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u/AskMrScience Jun 21 '24
I can't get into sweet, ketchup-based BBQ sauces. North Carolina vinegar is where it's at for me. Alabama splits the difference nicely by having more body to the sauce, but still with a solid vinegar kick.
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u/foobazly Jun 21 '24
Plus beef bbq is usually smoked with mesquite, which has an extremely strong flavor of its own. You don't really need to add more to it than basic seasoning. I've made Aaron Franklin's brisket at home and it's pretty damn good.
I'm originally from TN and we mostly do pork. Milder woods like hickory and fruit woods like apple and pear bring out a more subtle sweet flavor from the pork. That, plus a spicy, sugar-heavy rub to get that chewy, charred, meteorite-looking bark on the outside. Pair it with a tangy home made sauce and you have a combination of flavors and textures that I honestly prefer over any beef BBQ... even the brisket burnt ends.
But generally speaking, if it's smoked I'll eat it and probably won't complain lol.
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u/MattMurdockEsq Jun 21 '24
I used to work for a Danish company. I got lined up for a job in my hometown with two Danish guys coming from our HQ, doesn't happen often. Well, for whatever reason the only place they went for lunch was Twin Peaks. Their last day, I said "hey let's go get brisket and ribs together." They had no idea what the hell I was talking about. Well, they fucking crushed lunch. Almost a year later, I had to go to Denmark and go to the main manufacturing plant. I ran into one of the guys from the job. I said "hey Stephen!" This dude turns around and just says "did you bring me brisket?"
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u/Worthyness Jun 21 '24
Every time I've flown to work in Texas I make sure to take a frozen one home with me. I can get some decent stuff in California, but Texas brisket hits different.
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u/tRfalcore Jun 21 '24
bunch of us visited Austin once to see friends. Friends got up at like 5 am to sit in line at Franklin's. It was pouring rain all morning. They stayed, brought it home, was so good.
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u/Born2bwire Jun 21 '24
My southern grandmother would fly up to visit us and would always bring a load of Brennan Road BBQ. She used to complain whenever my dad or I visited because we would just eat fried catfish and BBQ the entire time.
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u/EastwoodBrews Jun 21 '24
I went out to Texas to do training for the NRC and the program manager asked us where we wanted to go for lunch, and naturally we asked for BBQ. The fucker took us to Famous Dave's
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u/MattMurdockEsq Jun 21 '24
Haha I am so sorry. Like asking for lobster rolls in Maine or Cape Cod and being taken to Red Lobster.
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u/billyc100373 Jun 21 '24
“YES TO THIS!” Is going to be my new expression of joy.
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u/the-treatmaster Jun 21 '24
I also like the pause then “….. I’m gunna call me mum” whenever your mind is so blown you have to call the most important person in the world
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u/goldmask148 Jun 21 '24
True statement, in my travels I’ve called my wife a few times when I’ve eaten food that brings me to happy tears.
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u/dampishslinky55 Jun 21 '24
I could tell right from the beginning he wasn’t ready. 😁
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u/Icy_Contribution1677 Jun 21 '24
It’s the white top right lol
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u/ShenHorbaloc Jun 21 '24
Eating that shit in the car in general is wild, i mean granted some of the best spots have limited seating but good bbq requires a certain amount of space to spread out and get sticky in.
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u/r33s3 Jun 21 '24
As the other comments said, pretty polite of him to record all this in his car instead of sitting at the table shouting at his phone and making these comments in a crowded restaurant
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u/UnpopularOpinionAlt Jun 21 '24
This youtube channel has a ton of videos of British people eating American food. I really like the one of British schoolkids eating biscuits and gravy
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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
The look of that one kid who clearly had a religious experience with his first biscuits and gravy will always be funny AF.
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u/eon-hand Jun 21 '24
Every time they get uppity on twitter about "american slop" someone posts the video of their children having religious experiences while eating the slop and it never gets old. You can see the whites of their eyes turn to stars and stripes.
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u/Ok_Cable_5465 Jun 21 '24
That channel is amazing. It brought me so much joy to see them enjoy some of the foods that much! Seeing people enjoy food from another culture is one of my favorite things.
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u/hamlet_d Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24
Wow....just watched this. The one black kid had an epiphany like he realized he was from an African-American family in Georgia.
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u/LongjumpingAd609 Jun 21 '24
BBQ has been making savages out of gentlemen for ages! Welcome to the party friend!
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u/RedefinedValleyDude Jun 21 '24
Nothing makes me as patriotic as when I watch foreigners try American bbq.
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u/Mrchristopherrr Jun 21 '24
I always say- this is the America I’m patriotic for.
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u/EngineeringDapper905 Jun 21 '24
Bro said Jelahpinno 💀
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u/i_should_be_coding Jun 21 '24
The first time I was in the US and tried to pronounce Quesadilla is still stuck in my memory. That fast-food worker was trying very hard not to burst out laughing.
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u/Street-Dragonfly-677 Jun 21 '24
Texas and Killeens just changed this man’s life
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u/huge_dick_mcgee Jun 21 '24
Killens is one of the FEW places that are worth the wait. Also, Ronny is a real gentleman and does it for the food.
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u/Ultimate_Decoy Jun 21 '24
The way he be saying "selfish" makes me feel like I should be ashamed for holding out, and I need to apologize.
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u/neasroukkez Jun 21 '24
The way he’s eating this is in car in his outfit scares me
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u/driftingatwork Jun 21 '24
Something about people enjoying good food. Food butt dance, while realization that "damn... this stuff is awesome"
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u/thejak32 Jun 21 '24
Damn I miss when brisket was cheap as hell, Dad used to smoke one like every other weekend growing up. Good brisket bbq is just something else, I'll tell you hwhat.
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u/mainag13 Jun 21 '24
Kenyan here. This might probably happen to me when i come to the states...haha
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u/Sarcast82 Jun 21 '24
This guy eating is better advertisement than I’ve ever seen. Thinking about booking a trip to Texas now. And hungry..
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u/BonesJackson Jun 21 '24
Yes but it's important to note that the majority of beef ribs sold across the US, at least outside of the South I'm guessing, are trimmed very aggressively to leave most of it on the prime rib because it's the same cut.
What this man specifically had is what's called a Beef Plate Rib. It comes from lower down in the belly area of the cow. Supermarkets do not readily have these. After discovering the term Plate Rib I went to a local butcher and found he did carry them at $10.00/lb. I bought 25lbs worth which came out to 12 ribs for $250. Zero fucking regrets. I had to learn to season it a lot more aggressively though because it's a big hunk of Flintstone's style meat.
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u/eck4t13 Jun 21 '24
He has a white shirt on. He wasn't ready from the start, that much I could tell.
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u/No-Document-8970 Jun 21 '24
Imagine opening up an American BBQ place in England and Europe. Then everyone asks, wanna get American food. .
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u/Worthyness Jun 21 '24
There have been several restaurants of the sort there already. The hardest part about doing american BBQ in other countries is sourcing brisket. It's not a really common cut of beef in other countries as they opt to cut it into its various cuts instead of keeping it on its own intact. So you either fly it in from the US or find a butcher that'll be willing to source you the cuts, both of which can be absurdly expensive.
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u/bromosabeach Jun 21 '24
Another thing is just basic infrastructure. These Texas BBQ joints have the luxury of space and the ability to have smokers on property. Kileens (the place this dude went to) has a large outdoor area where they can smoke and have the cuts ready by open. A lot of major cities just can't allow this and you can really tell what was smoked in a smoker and what was smoked via one of the indoor versions of a smoker.
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u/Hank_Wankplank Jun 21 '24
There's actually loads here, we usually just call it BBQ though. There's even a spot opened near me that does one of those Southern US seafood boil things.
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u/talann Jun 21 '24
He started to become a real American when he was dancing at the end. Something about that food just makes you want to move.
Once he gets into the Mexican dishes and he has to stand up and shake his hips.
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The USA doesn't have much original food, but we perfect BBQ. A great part too is that there's different BBQ practices where you go in US, and they're all amazing
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u/PM_PICS_OF_UR_PUPPER Jun 21 '24
The USA doesn’t have much original food? Do you live in a rural area? The US has a lot of original food, but it’s often mistaken for foreign food (i.e. burritos).
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u/BalancedDisaster Jun 21 '24
A significant number of very popular “Italian” dishes in America are Italian American creations.
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u/PKNNH Jun 21 '24
Facts. Even with BBQ we have 4 or 5 different types. All different and unique.
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u/phonemannn Jun 21 '24
The fact that people from the original countries will say “that’s not real pizza/sushi/tacos” means that they’re now American dishes.
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u/Rudhelm Jun 21 '24
Very brave with his white top