In honor of National BBQ Day, the #QuestionOfTheDay is: beef, chicken, or pork?
And the results are in from yesterday's poll of favorite BBQ meats:
50% Pork
28% Beef
22% Chicken
Which means, of course, that the 28% who answered beef were the only ones who answered correctly. ๐
@LnzyHou I have lived in the South since 1975. And I still prefer beef.
I also don't like iced tea. I'm a rebel.
@GaryPoole @LnzyHou You better work some salmon into the mix, dead and red all the time isn't the way.
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou One does not mix salmon with BBQ.
There are *rules*.
@GaryPoole @LnzyHou Tell it to the Cath lab technologist.
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou I have nothing against salmon, mind you. I eat it a lot. I like to grill it and serve with a fresh mango salsa as a recent example.
But itโs not BBQ. Period.
@GaryPoole @LnzyHou Don't mind me, I'm off on myself. I'm down 20 and I want more. I'm eating like a scientist now and exercising. I have to be old but I don't have to be fat. PS that salmon looks tasty
Oh that salsaโฆafter 7 yrs on St Croix with literally 75+ varieties of mango ๐ฅญ, I adore anything mango! Looks delish.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole How was that place? My friend in grade school used to go there with his family.
Loved it. But living in the Caribbean is not for everyone. Either you adjust to being a white minority or you will never understand its magic.
The West Indian culture is amazing.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole I'm an Italian northerner living in the southern USA, what better conditioning is there?
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole You know the south where sometimes you can find Locatelli cheese and then you go on sabbatical for a few years till someone stocks it again.
@GaryPoole @LnzyHou PS I drink unsweet tea, a renegade move in the south.
We southern Yankees drink it half and half with lemon, no straw.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole I try to use no straws or bags but the servers toss them around like one of Pavlov's dogs. Still waiting for hemp bags America, best idea ever, but noooooooo.
When I order a beverage I request no straw. If they forget and bring to the table, I refuse it.
A plastic straw embedded in the eye socket of a sea turtle is not an image you ever forget.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole I do the same but it still goes to the trash
Not if paper wrapped. After traveling to FL and back, Iโve learned to repeat the straw statement twice. Servers do it by habit and often have in their aprons.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole That would be great but I am confident if pristine on the table? It's in the trash, path of least resistance.
@LnzyHou @MidnightRider @GaryPoole
This was a pleasant little thread I stumbled across. ๐
Except for the straw and sea turtle part. ๐ฎ
@Novels56 @LnzyHou @GaryPoole
I'm with you. Animals are innocent victims, we know who we want to have straws in the eye socket but the universe has yet to deliver. ๐
@MidnightRider must keep our fingers crossed ๐ค๐ป
@Novels56 @LnzyHou @GaryPoole On another dive trip? I used to have a decent breath hold and duck dive. We found a fish trap with the sea float gone, just on the seafloor chock full. We dove on it it we bent the door all the way open, you're free ! Go fourth sea creatures! Thankfully the green moray just left it and me alone.
@MidnightRider thankfully! Whew! I canโt swim so Iโll never be able to do anything like that.
@Novels56 @LnzyHou @GaryPoole don't think I'll ever dive again. But I do move struggling worms on the pavement to the grass and watch them go. I think to myself "It's like you're their savior god". Yeah I know it's weird.
@MidnightRider not weird at allโฆ.๐
@Novels56 @LnzyHou @GaryPoole I don't like seeing anything in pain, especially if I can immediately stop it.
@MidnightRider @Novels56 @GaryPoole
Morays scare me. I donโt know why. I think they are sightless. Right?
@LnzyHou @Novels56 @GaryPoole Like all other SeaLife if you're cool they are. I believe they are nearsighted not blind. Watching them breathe while diving is a trip, very cool. A very stupid dive leader at club med poked one on it's head, it shot out of the hole and nailed him. Up top, hey Thomas, there's a tooth in your wetsuit. (dickhead)
@MidnightRider @Novels56 @GaryPoole
My son was a Caribbean dive master for 9 years.. He wonโt let anyone in his dives touch ANYTHING.
@LnzyHou @Novels56 @GaryPoole
Mad respect, that's a high bar level of training. A member of any dive resort or dive shop should set an example for the proper respect for our oceans. Young guy or not the Club Med dude was a dick. He was French so we started calling him "dumb" ass instead of Thomas (which he pronounced like toe mas) We used a French accent. He'd wave back, "hello". The next day the entire village was saying " hi Doe mas"!๐
@MidnightRider @Novels56 @GaryPoole
Now an IT manager in Philadelphia, he and his wife have not been in the water for years. They have planned a two week dive trip in Fiji in September ๐
His heart is broken by the accelerated death of the coral reefs in the Caribbean and other places.
He fears it all will be gone in his lifetime ๐ชธ๐ก๐ฆ
@LnzyHou @Novels56 @GaryPoole He could be right. I'm glad I was able to see it. If I was in control of the place it would run different but much like Mr. Mongo "rider only pawn in game of life".
@MidnightRider @Novels56 @GaryPoole
He belongs to a dive master online group who report conditions around the world. The pace is horrifying.
@Novels56 @MidnightRider @GaryPoole
Exactly the response I was hoping for. If you are shocked by my post, you may join me in the anti-plastic straw effort.
No plastic straws.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole I picked up an entire mesh bag of glassware off the Club Med beach snorkeling. I said to the "chef de la village". Why don't you give away 2 free drinks for every full bag of sea glass and trash? Oh wait I forgot the world hates common sense, never mind.
I collected sea glass for 7 yrs on St Croix. I love it.
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @GaryPoole That sounds like a GREAT idea, not only great for the environment, but it would cost them almost nothing and it would make great PR.
@LnzyHou @MidnightRider @GaryPoole
"federal ban prohibits six categories of plastics from being manufactured or imported for sale in Canada. Stir sticks, cutlery, takeout containers, plastic grocery bags and straws all fall under the new rule, which took effect in December. Such products will still be able to be sold in Canada for the next year."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/federal-plastic-ban-compostable-1.6723337
@NorthernInvader @LnzyHou @GaryPoole Nice! I am trying to get to Ontario this summer, I hope life goes that way. ๐ Canada
@NorthernInvader @MidnightRider @GaryPoole
Amazing leap forward. I wonโt patronize a restaurant that uses styrofoam carry out containers. Wonโt take plastic flatware/straws/bags.
Get them where it hurts. Boycott restaurants who donโt care.
No sir. Salmon is not a BBQ protein
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole It's great with Costco butt rub meant for pork, I promise you.
@LnzyHou @GaryPoole I wouldn't lie to you, add a twist of lemon you're welcome, it's fantastic.
A rub makes sense. Itโs only seasonings not sauce
@GaryPoole @LnzyHou born and raised in ATL and I have never liked sweet tea. I must be an outlier.
@GaryPoole
Clearly you donโt live in the south. We are all about the ๐ท๐๐ท๐๐ท๐๐ท๐๐ท๐๐ท