Bill's Barbeque Review

Sick Pigs, Sick Us?

Have you ever felt like you were caught between Scylla and Charybdis, those two islands in the Bermuda Triangle, where one has a volcano and the other's got a water park that's never been inspected?  I'm talking about my last post ("Healthier Pigs, Sicker Us?") and my point is, if making pigs healthy causes people to get FLESH-EATING BACTERIA!!!! and if au contraire you let the pigs be and they catch the flu which causes people to catch flu too and some of them (mostly here illegally anyway) sicken and die, what do you do?
I'll take my chances with the swine flu every time.  Besides, if you can trust the government, they say you can't catch the swine flu from pigs, even though pigs are swine (Google it if you don't believe me).
Unless-- (and I don't know how big an "unless" this is for you, in your personal situation, which I do not presume to judge) --unless you go doing something you shouldn't do with pigs.  Such as not using hand sanitizer after you load up your smoker, or things of that nature.

Red Alert

RED ALERT: It has come to Bill's attention that an aggressive campaign to eradicate genuine Southern barbecue has "done snuck up on us," to coin a phrase. This campaign is being waged by a commercial oufit calling itself (of all things) "Southern Pride." This company markets an automated "cooker" that purports to save costs and time. It's phoney baloney, and baloney's not even barbecue. "Southern Shame" is more like it!   Barbecue by definition is pork slow cooked over hickory coals in an open pit--if you don't believe me, check your Oxford (Miss.) English Dictionary!  They claim to have closed over 1000 open pits!  Bill will no longer review any but genuine open-pit establishments. But Bill will be compiling a blacklist of "pseudoque" places. You know who you are and you are warned!