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2004-06-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Americans are fat, so we shouldn't be like them... sorta.
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Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-06-15 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 They're way behind the curve on this one. Nobody cares about fat burgers anymore, it's carbs, carbs, carbs.
Posted by Anonymous5220 2004-06-15 7:06:22 AM||   2004-06-15 7:06:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 nothing better for a low carb diet than a barbecue and a low carb beer!
Posted by B 2004-06-15 7:56:25 AM||   2004-06-15 7:56:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Mmmmm, beer!
Posted by Steve  2004-06-15 9:07:15 AM||   2004-06-15 9:07:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The British have not yet fully adopted the macho approach to barbecuing beloved of American men

Yeah, I always bbq in drag.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-15 11:08:16 AM||   2004-06-15 11:08:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ..it's carbs, carbs, carbs.

Actually, to order meet air pollution requirements, it now has to be fuel injection, fuel injection, fuel injection. ;)
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-15 12:47:40 PM||   2004-06-15 12:47:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I still have old webber grill BAR.

LOL.
Posted by Shipman 2004-06-15 12:50:11 PM||   2004-06-15 12:50:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah hell.... why not.

I don't BBQ!
Why not?
I have a Lucas Grill.
Posted by Shipman 2004-06-15 12:51:18 PM||   2004-06-15 12:51:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Home Depot has Charbroil "Big Easy's" on sale Ship - $200 plus they provide a full propane tank

mmmmm Carne Asada tonight!
Posted by Frank G  2004-06-15 12:58:08 PM||   2004-06-15 12:58:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL at Howard.

Perhaps the author is referring to the fact that we Yanks don't raise our pinky finger daintily when grasping the fork and tongs ?
Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-06-15 1:00:47 PM||   2004-06-15 1:00:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The term Bar-B-Que , at least in Alabama, refers to a large gathering (50 to 100 people) where food is cooked in yhe open. Not just meat but camp stew and corn on the cob. What individuals and small groups do is called "Grillin' Out". The term is reportedly from French meaning beard to tail. Maybe. Could be from Spanish babacua meaning "big meat eat with lots of tequila.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-06-15 3:06:01 PM||   2004-06-15 3:06:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 DB, you can call it what you want but unless you actually use the fancy ketchup (aka Sauce of the Gods), it ain't barbecue. It's just grilling.
Posted by BH 2004-06-15 3:56:26 PM||   2004-06-15 3:56:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Barbeque....reminds me about the song of the Aussie Barbeque:

When the Summer sun is shining
On Australia's happy land
When countless spires of smoke inspires
Many a solemn band
See Australians glumly watching as their lunch goes up in flames
By the smoke and smell, you can plainly tell
It's barby time again

[Chorus]
When the steaks are burning fiercely
And the smoke gets in your eyes
When the snags all taste like fried toothpaste
and your mouth is full of flies
Its a national institution, its Australian through and through
So come on mate, and grab your plate
Lets have a barbeque

Oh the Scotsman loves his haggis
The French eat snails and frogs
The Greeks go crackers over their mousaka's
And the Yanks all love hotdogs
The Welsh just love to have a leek
The Irish love their stew
But you just can't beat, the half cooked meat
At an Aussie Barbeque!

[Chorus]

There's flies stuck to the margarine
The bread has gone rock hard
The kids are fighting, the mozzies are biting
Who forgot the Aerogard!
There's bull ants in the esky
And the beer is running out
And what we saw in Mum's coleslaw
We just don't talk about!

[Chorus]

Oh and when the day is over
And your homeward way you wend
With a queazy tummy on the family dunny
Many lonely hours you'll spend
You'll find yourself reflecting
As many often do
Come rain or shine, its the bloody last time
you'll have a Barbeque!

[Chorus]
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-15 4:24:34 PM||   2004-06-15 4:24:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 They throw on the marbled beef and jacket potatoes, and garnish the meal with lashings of sour cream, creamy dips and salty crisps.

Translation please? Was this was supposed to be a folksy recounting of an AMERICAN barbecue? What is a jacket potato? And I'm guessing that crisps are potato chips or french fries? Fun though.

I have never heard any chef or gourmet recommending turning and returning meat...might be healthy but chews like shoe leather.

American obesity isn't mostly diet-it's mostly lack of exercise.
Posted by jules 187 2004-06-15 4:36:39 PM||   2004-06-15 4:36:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 BBQ: If animals don't want to be eaten, they should stop wearing meat. Where's mucky?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-15 4:42:53 PM||   2004-06-15 4:42:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 There's flies stuck to the margarine
The bread has gone rock hard
The kids are fighting, the mozzies are biting
Who forgot the Aerogard!
There's bull ants in the esky
And the beer is running out
And what we saw in Mum's coleslaw
We just don't talk about!


What's esky?
Posted by Shipman 2004-06-15 5:54:02 PM||   2004-06-15 5:54:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 grillin or bbq'n it all works..nothing better than a sunny day, a beer, the grill and some good friends
Posted by Dan 2004-06-15 6:20:02 PM||   2004-06-15 6:20:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Whoever "chars" the meat just ain't doin' it right! Besides, she's bitching about something else:

"The British have not yet fully adopted the macho approach to barbecuing beloved of American men, whose sole contribution to cookery is - beer in hand - to don an apron when there are guests to admire and applaud their handiwork. "

How insulting.

And funny, she goes on to give all kinds of tips on how to grill--bet her editor made her do the story. And from the looks of her, she really needs to ease up and enjoy a beer and some good barbeque.

I was just thinking . . . I'm 100% certain that we Americans and Aussies know what we're doing. Personally, my life is so stressed, I would LOVE some fun grilling and partying.

About getting fat--it's not the barbeque, it's lack of exercise, like jules says.

NO BARBEQUE, GRILLING, or BEER = thought police. I'm sick of it.
Posted by ex-lib 2004-06-15 7:24:19 PM||   2004-06-15 7:24:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The "esky" is the cooler - taken from "eskimo". I think this is true, though I am Canadian, not Australian.
Posted by hedgehog 2004-06-15 9:57:11 PM||   2004-06-15 9:57:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I was just thinking . . . I'm 100% certain that we Americans and Aussies know what we're doing.

There's no doubt about that. Let's put it this way: the American South is to smoked pork what France is to wines, only more so.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-06-15 10:22:08 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-06-15 10:22:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Right-o hedgehog. The esky is the insulated cooler.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-16 1:59:46 AM||   2004-06-16 1:59:46 AM|| Front Page Top

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