It’s officially grilling season. So, what are YOU cooking up? A recent poll found our favorite food to grill is burgers, with over 70% of the vote. And an informal BuzzFeed poll backed that up.
Over 15,000 people voted on popular barbecue food match-ups. For each match-up, you can only pick one . . .
1. Burgers or dogs? Burgers got 78% of the vote, hot dogs 22%.
2. Chicken or pulled pork? 47% said chicken . . . 46% said pork . . . and 7% wouldn’t touch either of them.
3. Sausage or ribs? Ribs won with 56% of the vote.
4. Potato salad or coleslaw? 66% chose potato salad.
5. Macaroni salad or mac-and-cheese? Mac-and-cheese of course won with 77% of the vote.
6. Watermelon or pineapple? 69% said shut up, it’s obviously watermelon.
7. Baked beans or cornbread? Cornbread with 58%.
8. Grilled veggies or corn on the cob? Not even close. Corn on the cob with 70% of the vote.
Yelp Ranked the Top 10 BBQ Cities in the U.S.
Happy National Barbecue Day! It’s supposed to be the unofficial start of grilling season. So if you already fired up the grill last weekend, be embarrassed. You totally jumped the gun. (???)
It’s only been a thing for about a decade, and no one’s sure who came up with it, but probably someone trying to sell grills.
May is also National Barbecue Month, which, supposedly, the Barbecue Industry Association came up with in 1981, also to sell grills.
Anyway, Yelp just celebrated National Barbecue Day by ranking the Top 10 barbecue CITIES in the U.S. They based it on reviews of the top barbecue restaurants. And the top two are both in Texas . . .
1. Austin
2. San Antonio
3. Kansas City, Missouri
4. Memphis, Tennessee
5. Charleston, South Carolina
6. Greenville, South Carolina
7. Honolulu. It’s good if you like Korean or Hawaiian-style barbecue.
8. Tulsa, Oklahoma
9. Durham, North Carolina
10. Nashville
Memorial Day is the “unofficial start of SUMMER,” but also a popular first day to fire up the grill. So if you’re waiting another week, that’s okay too.
