BBQ Wrap Up

Jake loves ribs It's taken a month to calculate exactly how much was eaten at the 1st Annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, but here are the numbers:

- 2194 pounds of whole hog
- 2302 pounds of pork shoulder
- 2275 pounds of pork ribs
- 1200 pounds of chicken wings
- 6,840 slices of white bread
- 5,400 cans of Coca-Cola
- 1,800 bottles of Dasani water
- 7,440 cups of Brooklyn Brewery�s Blue Smoke Original Ale, Blanche de Brooklyn, Brooklyn Lager, and Brooklyn Light Ale.

Champion pitmaster Mike Mills called it �one of the most awesome events� in which he�d participated. �In barbecue language, it was a 10, and that means unsurpassed.� Awesome!

Read Gothamist's extensive coverage of the event.

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By Jen Chung in Food on July 8, 2003 3:08 PM

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at203

More BBQ is coming in August... http://www.bbq-nyc.com/

I love BBQ. After a trip to Nashville last year, I couldn't believe how my northeast upbringing had deprived me of such smoky savory trips.

I think everyone has the BBQ bug. My father just built his own smoker out of an aluminum trash can and a hot plate.

Jen

1) Yeah, the "10" thing I didn't understand, but unsurpassed I got.

2) The rain was annoying, because we had to hold umbrellas, thereby losing one hand for drink or 'cue, but we worked it out where Jake would hold the umbrella while I ate and we'd rotate. But no deep fried oreos here. We could have gotten deep fried Mars Bars at A Salt and Battery, though.

greg.org

1) I'm confused. What's the conversion rate for a 10 "in barbecue language"?

2) Generally, I'm jealous, and still traumatized by the sorry sorry bbq festival we got roped into attending in DC last summer. It was like going to the good ribs restaurant, then feeling obliged to go to the other ones, while baking on a treeless, closed-off Penna Ave. The one saving grace: deep-fried oreos.