BBQ with white bread

[joiei]

Why do ALL bbq joints in this part of the world serve up slices of white bread with their bbq offerings? Rancho has a good point about serving it with corn tortillas. Have these smokers never beheld a different style or type of offerings? I have to realize that I am not going to make a sandwich out of the pulled pork or the sliced brisket. I have seen that done more often than I care to remember. But please, something besides Sunbeam sliced, heck they don't even offer the split butter top loaf. Heck, to wrap up some nice pulled pork in a corn tortilla with maybe a sliced radish and some chopped tomato, yum. I wouldn't even need sauce.

 

I do have to go with the potato salad, although most often I will go for the coleslaw, I have had way too much bad potato salad at bbq joints.

[Jaymes]

I think (as I very patiently pointed out to Rancho) (four times), the smoked meats, in central Texas anyway, come from a German/Polish/Czech etc. heritage, which doesn't suggest corn tortillas.

 

And although we do frequently wrap up sausages in tortillas, we don't serve them with smoked brisket.

 

I mean we would.

 

Except that that's just weird.

 

 

[rancho_gordo]

So I'm here in lovely Texas and thanks to Jaymes, I am a huge fan of TX BBQ. But as cute and quaint as the bad white bread is, I kept thinking it would go way up a notch with corn tortillas. or maybe good white bread. The thin, vinegarey chile sauce can't be German and smoked meat is neutral enough to be enjoyed with a tortilla. The ranch beans are fab and potato salad goes from good to vile.

We were having bbq again and as much as I wanted it, I also craved a good green salad. You would have thought I suggested serving monkey meat in its own skull!

I didn't think it was so odd but I do remember a dutch friend making Mexican food with basmati rice and I thought that was pretty odd.

By the way, I'm here at Jaymes' daughter house and her son in law is outside deep frying a cajun turkey while drinking beer and listening to country music on the AM. A big pot of "queso" is simmering on the stove. I am very happy.

 

[rancho_gordo]

 

From Smitty's

[Wilfrid]

Oh, that is a thing of beauty.

 

The ordinary white bread deal isn't confined to Texas, though, is it? Long before I became a resident of this pleasant land, I was in a party of Britishers who were served BBQ for lunch in Kansas City. Fine meat, but none of us could understand why we were given this awful bread to accompany it.

 

BBQ restaurants in New York dutifully trot the stuff out too.

[Sneakeater]

I hate to New Yorkify everything, but this sounds to me a lot like complaining about the bad commercial rye bread at Katz's.

 

PS -- I've never had barbecue of any style in any part of the South that wasn't served with sliced commercial white bread. I don't think barbecue comes from what we might call a bread culture. It certainly doesn't come from a tortilla culture.

 

PPS -- I WANT that link and brisket.

[Suzanne F]

Cheap white bread functions better as a napkin than a tortilla would. Absorbs more grease.

 

You're expected to eat it?

[rancho_gordo]

I got Jaymes' son-in-law to admit a tortilla would work well until he discovered I meant a corn tortilla. I'd gone too far.

A "breakfast taco" here is sausage and cheese on a flour tortilla.

This morning we had biscuits and gravy and I'm sorry, but I am converted to being a Texan. One savory and the other a plain biscuit with butter and syrup. Better than a pancake. Ding dang, ya'll, it was hard to stop at two.

I still maintain that good bread would elevate the BBQ to a thing of perfection.

[malarkey]

I'm sorry I'm missing this gathering. Next time!!

 

[rancho_gordo]

I'm sorry I'm missing this gathering. Next time!!

 

I was not happy when I heard you were out of town!

[Suzanne F]

I got Jaymes' son-in-law to admit a tortilla would work well until he discovered I meant a corn tortilla. I'd gone too far.

A "breakfast taco" here is sausage and cheese on a flour tortilla.

This morning we had biscuits and gravy and I'm sorry, but I am converted to being a Texan. One savory and the other a plain biscuit with butter and syrup. Better than a pancake. Ding dang, ya'll, it was hard to stop at two.

I still maintain that good bread would elevate the BBQ to a thing of perfection.

 

Hell, you can get biscuits and (sausage) gravy in south-central Vermont. True, it is crumbled sweet Italian sausage, and the cream gravy is made with real heavy cream, but that doesn't make it bad. Usually I get that once a summer, and spend the rest of the day in total, sweet lethargy.

[rancho_gordo]

More meat. I want more meat.

 

This wasn't Vermont, in any sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Suzanne F]

True. The BBQ in Vermont sucks. All that, otoh, looks great. Even the brisket behind the chunks of sausage that looks a little green.

 

And is that your older kid? Adorable.

[Lippy]

I don't know about tortillas, but I always thought that biscuits would go better with BBQ than the white bread or even the cornbread you are sometimes served.

[splinky]

the spongy white bread is meant to soak up the grease. it's cheaper than paper napkins, doesn't leave napkin lint on the meat and it doesn't fall apart like biscuits or cornbread.