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One more reason to hate the BBQ battle. I went one year; never again.

The worst part of this event is that there is absolutely no interaction between the general event-attending public and the actual BBQ competition. Due to health department rules, the competitors can't sample or sell their product to the public, so the only BBQ available is some real mediocre stuff from vendors who do the fair-and-festival circuit. Otherwise you can sample the latest in processed foods being pushed by the main sponsor (which are in many ways the antithesis of the craft of BBQ that the competition is about) and look at the marketing tents put forward by major corporations with little or no connection to barbecue or even to food. In the end it's a (highly commercialized) mediocre street fair that you have to pay to get into--hence the blocked-off streets.

Blocking off the streets to vehicles is one thing; closing off to pedestrians for a commercial event of dubious public benefit is quite another.

by thm on Jul 16, 2012 12:49 pm • link • report

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