RTP-area local music and culture

[John I <not AT hotmail.com>]

Bo Williams wrote:

> 
> On 1/4/06, John I <not AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lisa Drake wrote:
>>
>> > In article
>> > <469e988e0601031545rcb72b0eta58f7d86615206a AT mail.gmail.com>, 
>> >  bowilliams AT gmail.com (Bo Williams) wrote:
>> >
>> >> >From a review of Blue Ribbon BBQ (the only decent BBQ joint in
>> >> >town): 
>> >>
>> >> "The pulled pork is also smoky, and thus inauthentic, but justly
>> >> popular."
>> >>
>> >> What the... I mean... what... help. The amazing thing is that you
>> >> even TASTE the smoke, after the perfectly good hog has simmered in
>> >> ketchup under a heat lamp for four hours.
>> >>
>> >> Bo Williams
>> >
>> > When you live in Boston you should eat a lot of cheap lobster and
>> > clams, not BBQ.
>> >
>>
>> Yes!  And when you move to Raleigh, you shouldn't complain about the
>> bagels!

> Fuck all y'all- I demand, as an American, decent BBQ in every corner of
> our fair nation. Anyone who says otherwise is settling for less than
> they are entitled. Does it not say in the Federalist Papers that "our
> new nation will be one in which even the lowliest Yankee can live high
> on the hog?" 
> 
> Also, fuck lobster. Seriously. Why anyone elevated a bottom-feeding
> armored tank of a sea creature to the dizzying heights of the surf and
> turf platter is completely beyond me. You come here for the clams and
> the oysters, not that trash.
> 
> Bo Williams, patriot
> 


Note that clams and oysters are filter-feeders and in that vein not 
dissimilar to the more highly-evolved lobster, the tail of which is 
delectable and the bisque divine.