Which BBQ Style Are You?
Which BBQ Style Are You?
Roots n Blues is coming up which means all kinds of BBQ will be waiting to be gobbled up
Roots n Blues is coming up which means all kinds of BBQ will be waiting to be gobbled up
What's your favorite city?
What's your favorite type of meat?
Which is more important, the sauce or the side?
What are you looking forward to the most at Roots n Blues?
Finally, the most important question: St. Louis Cards or KC Royals?
Sweet Carolina Pork
Sweet Carolina Pork
Pork is popular in North and South Carolina, specifically pulled pork and a whole hog. Wells says the Carolinas are known for “pig pickin’s.” “Literally, they will cook this hog and then lay it out and people walk by with forks and pick meat off of it,” Wells says. The sauces in the Carolinas vary: The classic Carolina BBQ sauce is mustard-based, which traditionally doesn’t go over well in the Midwest. But Carolina BBQ can also have a vinegar-and-tomato-based sauce.
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Memphis Cole Slaw
Memphis Cole Slaw
Although Memphis style uses pork and hickory wood like Carolina style, the difference is in a classic BBQ side: coleslaw. Putting coleslaw on top of pork dishes is classic Memphis tradition. Wells says the slaw used in Memphis usually has a vinegar base. Coleslaws elsewhere typically use a mayonnaise base.
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Texas Beef
Texas Beef
Texans love their beef. According to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, in 2015 Texas ranked first in the country for highest number of cattle and calves with 11.7 million. Wells says Texas BBQ uses mesquite wood or post oak wood, which is “literally” the wood you make post fences with.
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Kansas City Sauce
Kansas City Sauce
“If it moves, we cook it,” says Wells about Kansas City BBQ. She says Kansas City is the “melting pot” of BBQ and it’s where all the regional styles come together. The typical sauce in Kansas City is sweeter, with a tomato base and sometimes made with molasses for extra sweetness.
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St. Louis (Sort-of) BBQ
St. Louis (Sort-of) BBQ
Sorry, St. Louis, but Kansas City gets you on this one. St. Louis is not a style of BBQ. “I don’t know where they got into making themselves into a BBQ capital,” Wells says. “St. Louis style” is actually a butcher cut of meat.
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