Now, now, before you read too much into the title... I'm talking about meat, people, MEAT. Briskets. Pork shoulder. Ribs. Slow-cooked for several hours over a natural wood fire, there is truly nothing better.
But while we're on the subject, here is my opinion on what you probably thought I was talking about:
It's now legal for recreational use in Washington and Colorado, and it's legal for medicinal use in a handful of other states. I think it should be legal everywhere. There is no reason for it to be classified as a Schedule 1 drug the way it is. Now don't get crazy, it's still extremely dangerous to get behind the wheel after toking a huge doobie, but no more so than the hundreds of yahoos who try to drive after they've had a few shots of their favorite intoxicating beverage. There are plenty of ways to give it the same legal-but-regulated status as alcohol or tobacco. Studies have shown that puffing on a spliff is a whole lot less deadly than drinking. Making recreational cannabis into a legal intoxicating substance with the same overall regulatory structure as alcohol would seem to make sense. Here's another fact: Cannabis doesn't make people violent, the way alcohol does. Legalizing it would not produce a spree of violent criminal behavior; it would instead produce a couch-ful of happy, hungry people. People who would love to eat some of this BBQ:
Here's what I'm thinking of trying today:
I'm going to take a few dozen strips of bacon and weave them into a mat. On this mat I'm going to spread out about an inch-thick layer of ground beef which I will have mixed with an egg and rolled oats (think meatloaf mix). I'll add a few chunks of chopped ham and maybe some fried pork rinds on top of that layer, and crumble brown sugar over the thing. Then I'm going to roll it up, tie some string around it, sprinkle some of my Dry Rub mix on it, and pop it in the smoker for a few hours. It won't need to be on the smoke all day like a more substantial cut of meat, but it should get a really nice smoky flavor.
I'll let you know how it goes.
