Adding to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's woes in his attempt to become president is a new and unexpected issue. Adding to illegal immigration, the vaccination of prepubescent against sexually transmitted disease and Social Security is barbeque. According to Hot Air, while Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Perry found himself at the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston trying a little barbeque from Kings of Kingston, N.C. Perry incautiously opined he had tasted road kill that was better tasting than that. The statement has come back to haunt Perry. People in barbeque regions of the country -- the Carolinas; Texas; Memphis, Tenn.; and Kansas City, Mo. -- have their own particular forms of barbeque and jealously maintain their version's superiority over all others. People in North Carolina, for example, think pulled pork jam-packed in a vinegar based barbeque sauce is the best ever to be kissed by fire. Texans like Perry know beef brisket with a tomato-based sauce is superior to anything ever cooked since the first men discovered barbeque, which occurred very likely minutes after they discovered fire. Perry was no doubt indiscrete about his opinion of North Carolina barbeque and, truth to tell, rsther than harsh in his assessment. Pull pork may not be as good as brisket, but it is not bad, certainly not down to the level of road kill. That hardly matters next to the fact North Carolina is an early primary state that Perry will have to win should be hope to get the GOP nomination for president. That means he has a little fence mending to do with the pulled pork eating folks of eastern North Carolina. One suspects Perry, during his next campaign swing in North Carolina, will be obliged to sit down at a good barbeque eatery, like Kings of Kingston, and chow down on a plate of pulled pork, with the vinegary sauce and all the trimming. Then he had better pronounce what he just ate the best he ever had-outside of Texas. Hot Air also mentions an incident recounted in the Los Angeles Times in which Michele Obama s! ent a le tter to supporters in Charlotte, N.C., mentioning the great barbeque. Obama, ordinarily known as a health food nut, may have committed a major gaffe. Apparently everyone in North Carolina knows there is no such thing as good barbeque in Charlotte. Texas resident Mark Whittington writes about state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network.
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