Good 'Cue on 66 /What is KCBS Anyway? Boars Night Out

Came across an entry in the "You Gonna Eat That?" blog about a barbecue contest in Victorville, Ca., this past weekend. As you know, I am somewhat of a fan of this cuisine. It seems that the "Four Q BBQ" team competed against 20 other teams in a KCBS-sanctioned contest called the "Go for the Gold Route 66 BBQ Championship".

They had to compete in four categories: chicken, pork ribs, pulled pork (my own personal favorite, but HEY, I'm originally from NC, the home of pulled pork!!), and beef brisket. Evidently, they are a fairly new team, but were happy with an 8th place finish. The Grand Champion was "All Hogs Go to Heaven" and Reserve Champion was "Otis and the Brisket". I liked those names.

I was wondering, could KCBS be the call letters of a radio or TV station, since I know that west of the Mississippi they begin with the letter K, east of it with the letter W? Looked it up and it stands for Kansas City Barbeque Society. The organization claims 6500 members, 260 sanctioned events, and ten million fans. Their goal is the "celebrating, teaching, preserving, and promoting barbeque as a culinary technique, sport, and art form. Our goal is to have barbeque recognized as America's cuisine." Well...they get my vote!!!

At their website, they had, under Contests, a list of the top tens at recent contests. I figured that there might be some more interesting team names, and there were. At the Mississippi Springfest competition in Ashland, Ms., on May 5, some teams:

Smokey Mt. Smokers
Snail Slow Smokin'
Big Green Eggs and Ham
Bad to the Bone
Mason-Dixon Swine
Boars Night Out
Kinney's Kountry Kookers
South Wind BBQ

'Cue Guy & the Ribs. --RoadDog