Tweet of the Day, The Internet Unites! edition.

9 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, The Internet Unites! edition.”

1. There’s a statewide barbecue shootout here in town (not remotely near Brooklyn). I can assure you that *that*, whatever that is, wouldn’t be recognized as anything other than “what’s left on the tray after having seconds”.

2. Because the world doesn’t know any better?

3. That is possibly the least inviting spread since summer camp lunches: The meat is rubber, the rolls stale, and the pickles store-bought. The beer was the only thing giving me hope, but mason jars are for strong spirits, not your organic hops flavored tea.

   1. Oh, mason jars work just fine for beer, been to plenty of restaurants in Texas that used them for such. Reading on the web, the place in Brooklyn that they’re copying seems to be a bastardized clone of BBQ from Lockhart – sold by weight, served on butcher paper, smoked with a dry rub, with just a few tricks to make it more upscale. The rolls straight out of a bag from the grocery store are even a fairly normal variation, though it’s usually just a few slices of white bread straight from a plastic bag in Central Texas.

      The brisket doesn’t look that bad, though it’s the less flavorful flat cut rather than the point, but most folks outside of Texas use the point to make burnt ends anyways. I’d have to taste it to see if they used an acceptable amount of rub and smoke, and smoked it slow enough to get the flavor fully infused, but the fact it’s not slathered with sauce to overcome the weakness of the smoking technique like most places outside of Texas do would give me hope.

      1. I will sign off on mason jars for beer if they come with a pitcher. That’s fine. It lets you calibrate your beer consumption, then.

         1. I’d rather like to see the volume of the mason jar. If it’s 12oz, then .. okay .. but if it’s anything less **where’s the rest of the can?** .. and I don’t much like beer.
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            Mew

4. Other than the disappointingly small serving of meat and lack of a side dish, that doesn’t look *too* bad, to me. Seems very unflatteringly lit, though. Sauces are probably in bottles on the table, and, at least, it looks like a pint jar of beer.
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   Really unflattering photo, though.

   1. Also, ‘Brooklyn-style barbecue’ is a term that practically asks to be mocked. It conjures images of insufferably be-flanneled tweeness.

      1. Only “lumbersexuals” (i.e. metosexuals, only kitted out in plaid flannel and sporting beards) would think “Brooklyn” is far enough from the center of the universe to know jack or squat about ‘cue.
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         Don’t get me wrong, it’s *possible* to get good ‘cue outside Alabama .. can even find some in Texas .. but .. the only barbecue in Brooklyn should admit where it’s true roots are .. Alabama, Carolina, Memphis, Texas, or .. a lumbersexual.
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         Mew

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