June 29, 2004 Archives

Every now and then I'll get one of those emails from one of my friends with a bunch of questions that you're supposed to answer and send back to people you know. You know those things that are supposed to tell your friends (and other people you don't know) more about yourself, and things that they might not know about yet.

Got one of those today from my friend Mike, so I thought instead of spamming a bunch of people with it I'd just blog my responses. My responses probably won't be quite as entertaining as Mike's, but maybe someone will find it interesting.

One of the best things about South Carolina (next to living close to the beach and ocean) is the barbeque. I'm not talking about burgers and hot dogs on the grill. No sir. I'm talking slow cooked, wood smoked hunks of pig. Smoky juicy tender shreds of pork and slabs of falling-off-the-bones ribs. Mmmmm, oh yeah.

There's lots of places to get barbeque around here. I haven't been to all of them, or all that many of them. But the ones I have been to have all been good. I'd hazard a guess that you would be hard pressed to find a bad barbeque place around here.

But what's a guy to do when there's no barbeque place around? Well, you could do it yourself, but that takes a lot of time and babysitting. Definitely the way to go though if you've got a few hours to kill and are trying to avoid yardwork. But not everyone has that much spare time.

That's where the slow cooker comes in.