"Florida BBQ"?
What a BBQ joint means to me The MAP Imagine for a moment a cash-only, styrofoam only (even if you "dine" in), plastic-fork only restaurant with red-checkered plastic table cloth on plastic tables. What it's about to me is the land and the people. People who refused to be poor planted a flag in the land and, keeping their costs low, tried to cultivate a taste for the land itself. The dirt grew the corn; the corn fed the cattle; the cattle were butchered into brisket cuts, tongues, cheeks. The pigs, same thing. Sometimes a chicken gives its very life for your sustenance. In the modern era, this is not exactly how it happens. Beef comes from Publix or H-E-B, not your farm. The cow wasn't fed with your corn, either. Even so, most BBQ joints focus on the meat, and it is a way of doing business that invites the hipster snob to focus only on the brisket, because everything else is obviously shit. South Florida I know of only two BBQ joints down there. The Georgia Pig on 44...