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Munchies sent shockwaves through the Internet on May 4 when they posted an amateur-looking brisket spread with girthy whole pickles and Kings Hawaiian Rolls and stated that Brooklyn barbecue was taking over the world.
While New Yorkers thought they could declare victory in the decades-old barbecue war between Texas, Kansas City, the Carolinas, and Memphis with a cheap sneak attack, flyover country united en force and absolutely blindsided them like the Knights of the Vale in Battle of the Bastards. It was a total blood bath. But we all need to remember that this isn’t the first time New York has stolen food and declared it their own. New York foodies have a habit of creating “New York style” iterations of foods and then calling it the best simply because it was created in New York. One does not simply smoke some brisket and call it the best barbecue ever. Sometimes smoked meat is just smoked meat.
The most obvious time New York adopted a food, called it their own, and declared it the best was pizza. Of course, full disclosure, I’m a firm believer in the original, Neapolitan pizza, but just because New York modified a recipe brought over by Italian immigrants does not make it better. Not to say New York-style pizza is bad, but it is nowhere near the undisputed best of all pizza. As someone impartial with no skin in the game, I finally tried real Chicago deep dish last year and was blown away. It was really good. Maybe not as good as the first New York-style place my dad took me to as a kid, Pizza Town, but better than Sbarro, obviously New York’s best slice (I kid, don’t put a bounty on my head, damn Yankees).
But still, there’s a totally valid argument that the Neapolitan pizza is the best, as evidenced by Antico. You just can’t screw with a city like Naples, Italy that has actual laws regarding what flour you can use to declare your pizza Neapolitan. And yet the New Yorkers adopted their own version and called it the best, despite Italian immigrants elsewhere coming up with other iterations or just sticking with the original.
And I could even forgive that if it did not show a pattern of behavior on the part of New York to have major little brother syndrome and try to one-up everyone who came up with something they didn’t have. Don’t forget the Coney Island frank. The original Frankfurter sausage, for those who don’t know, was originally imported from Germany to be a street food for working class Americans. Pre-Kaiser Wilhelm Germany, of course. There’s actually a surprisingly intense debate as to where the first American hot dog stand was set up. Some say a German immigrant in the heartland, where a ton of German immigrants ended up. Of course, New Yorkers prefer the story that the first hot dog stand was set up in Coney Island, and that New York hot dogs are the best. Even though the Frankfurter originated in Germany. Convenient.
So first New York stole pizza from the Italians and called it the best. Then they stole hot dogs from Germany and called it the best. Now they’re trying to steal barbecue from the heart of America and call it their own. We cannot allow New York to continually claim what is not theirs and push it as the best. It is a hill worthy dying on. If not, we may see a future where New York steals fried green tomatoes, fried chicken, chili, stuffed avocados, fajitas, and, God forbid, beer, wine, and bourbon. We cannot allow New Yorkers to steal our culture and lazily claim it to be the best just because it’s “New York style.” It is time for the rest of America to take a stand..
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@5OClockShadow_
From color changing dresses to celebrity nudes to President Trump’s twitter to SJWs…this claim of NY BBQ is probably the most outrageous thing ever posted on the internet. You can get fucked, New York BBQ people. Our kids will have an entire chapter about this crime against humanity in their history books one day. I’m pissed and I’m going to have some real Texas BBQ for lunch now
Not to be “that guy” but the picture is total click-bait. If you read the munchies article, it said the BBQ at that NYC joint is all “weight based” so the author clearly asked for like 2 oz worth of meat. I could go to the same joint and pay for 3 lbs of brisket and fill up that tray. In fact, I might do that today for lunch
“Here’s $20, just fuck me up”
I see what you’re saying, but even then, look at that garbage. A gallon of sauce couldn’t make that meat wet, the bread looks store bought three months ago and would be better served as a throwing weapon, and everyone knows you get your pickles sliced.
that meat looks like the ‘get caught in the your throat and scratch its way down’ kind of dry
don’t know where that random ‘the’ came from, but the point still stands
Why would you pay for 3lbs of shit food after seeing a 2oz sample of the same shit food?
I can’t just get up and waltz over to Franklin bbq…if that Brooklyn stuff is the best NYC has, well, then so be it I guess…I actually haven’t done BBQ in NYC yet. maybe I won’t even try idk
You can buy a smoker and do it yourself.
Drive through some sketch ass neighborhood and find someone cooking t street side. 10/10 will be better than any bbq you’ll get at a restaurant in NYC.
The visceral reaction over this New York barbecue is beyond stupid and really irritates me, even though it shouldn’t. I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of the numbskulls and nimrods that are virulently attacking this four-year-old republished article and getting themselves all worked up about it didn’t actually get past the clickbaity picture and headline to read the thing. The author was simply noting that in his travels, he would order barbecue from places around the world and the chefs told him they were inspired by the barbecue made and served in Brooklyn as opposed to a place like Texas or Memphis, which really surprised the author. It was just an observation. But since this is the internet and the discourse over everything in this country has devolved online screeching and pissing matches, it was misconstrued to be some horrible affront to humanity.
And no, I am neither from nor live in New York so this isn’t some passionte defense I’m laying out. I just feel like it’s something that’s lost in this electronic cacophony of “DURRRR THAT FAKE NEWS HIPSTER BBQ AIN’T TAKING OVER THE WORLD”
Chill out, it’s going to be really embarrassing when you tell people that you got an ulcer from stress caused by a discussion about BBQ.
Whoa buddy.. deep breath… step away from the keyboard. It’s all ganna be ok. Jesus Christ man
Only a hipster would venture to these depths of analysis over a Tweet, you part of the Oakland, Mission, Portland, Hoboken, or Boulder hipster faction?
Dude, no one reads things anymore. Everyone knows that. *sets up trap for him to read something in order to respond and then slowly fades into the shadows and rubs hands together in excitement*
I truly am shocked by your anger and what you’re actually saying in regards to us shutting on New York BBQ
Reading an article rather than immediately taking umbrage with a headline? Where’s the fun in that?
That NY BBQ looks like the meal you’d get from FEMA after the economy completely implodes on itself. Then again, it’s fitting for NY since Wall Street is there and it will undoubtably cause this scenario to happen so maybe Munchies was trying to be “edgy” and “philosophical” lol
The fact that Kansas City, Texas, the Carolinas, and Memphis all agreed on a BBQ issue should tell Brooklyn all they need to know about how terrible their concept of BBQ is.
And yes, I listed those locations in order of how good their BBQ is, and I will still fight anyone who argues otherwise.
Looks like we’re gonna have to fight
Opinions usually can’t be wrong, but your opinion is actually incorrect
Pull up then
I’m not entirely sure I ever thought about what the opposite of a “sup?” comment would be, but I think this is it.
Sure, if you choose to interpret it that way..
Not going to comment on your wrong rankings but people always underrate Memphis style
GTFO with that dry rub.
I would put Memphis over Carolina, but not TX or KC. But maybe I’m biased after meeting Jim Neely in the Memphis airport location.
Ultimately it’s a battle over beef vs. pork and sweet-spicy sauce (molasses or brown sugar base) vs. tangy-spicy sauce (vinegar or mustard base). I fell in love with Carolina style at a pig pickin’ at a football tailgate.
As long as KC is first the order is correct.
That is the most pathetic, hipster-looking BBQ that I’ve ever seen.
That looks like a meal at Fyre Fest
I’ve lived in South Carolina and Texas and had BBQ in Brooklyn when I visited over thanksgiving. It’s the equivalent of Dickeys in Texas. GTFOH
Brooklyn BBQ might be a bigger fraud than Northern Fried Chicken.
That plate is laughable to a Texas native. Keep your grubby little fingers out of our barbecue, Brooklyn.
That plate should be laughable to any American who enjoys barbeque.
I’m pretty sure the average person could also make squirrel meat look more appetizing.
Take that’s squirrel home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato, baby you’ve got a stew going
One time @PaidHourly ordered biscuits in Manhattan and he vowed never to make that mistake again. They brought him corn muffins.
I can make better BBQ at home, and I’m homeless. I wouldn’t even hit that shit with my own needle.