Big Brain, master hog cooker from Ubon's Crocheting/Pinochle Club Championship BBQ Team sends along a link to an article which fact checks some of the more outrageous claims that Obama made last night.
It's worth a perusal, especially considering that it was done by the Associated Press.
Thanks Big B!! See ya in Memphis next month!
Today is Veteran's Day and for those of you who don't know what it means, here is a word for word email from my friend Brian (Brain from Ubon's) about Veteran's Day:
I do not have a forum for this like you do. I have never told you this, but my family has a longstanding tradition of military service. If you don’t mind, I would like you to honor them on this most special of days.
My Uncle Bill Webb – US Army – served in Desert Storm I.
My Brother Mark Campbell – US Army – served in Desert Storm I.
My Cousin Dallas Allbritton – US Army – he has not been to a “real” war, but he is just a couple of years short of having his 20 years in with the National Guard.
My Cousin Scott Smira – US Air Force – he just got back from Kosovo, but he spent 1 ½ years in various countries.
My Cousin Kevin Smira – US Army – Somolia.
Our Friend Scott Welch – US Air Force – who is serving in the present Iraqi war
And finally, my Great Uncle Captain Harry White – US Army – World War II.
Let me tell you a story about Captain Harry White. He was my grandmother’s only brother, and he is the reason that I have the place to live on that I do. My great grandfather Percy White bought the land that we now know as the River Place because he wanted a farm for his son to raise registered shorthorn cattle on. The barn that is still standing on that place was built in 1937 by my great grandfather and Harry. It is made out of oak boards that were transported from the back of the property by oxen.
When World War II broke out, Harry White joined the Army. Harry White had a college education and a job. He was also an only son, so he could have avoided the draft if he wanted to. He didn’t care, he joined the Army to fight for his country. He was sent to the Phillippines. From December 8 – 10, Japanese forces took over airfields in the Phillippines. To make a long story short, on March 22, 1942, Douglas MacArthur was flown to Australia . He then wired the people of the Phillippines that “he shall return”. Sadly, he was wrong. On April 9, 1942, General King surrendered US and Phillippine troops to the Japanese, against MacArthur’s orders.
My Great Uncle, Captain Harry White, was in the middle of all this. He marched in the Bataan Death March. Emaciated, sick, starving. On October 7, 1942, Captain Harry White died for his country in a Japanese prison camp. A POW. We do not know the details. We do have a small journal that was returned to us. You can tell by the writing as the days go by that he was getting weaker and weaker. Captain Harry White is buried at the Manila American Cemetary in the Phillippines. Please remember him and all that are like him. A great American who died for us. Never had a wife, never had a kid, never really ever had a house that he could call his own.
Unselfishly. Went. And died. For us.
POW’s, MIA’s, Veterans……………….
Never forget….
Cooking competitions are tough enough, but add the name Jack Daniels to it and you've got a whole 'nother level of predicamentation. I'm making up words again.
Gary, Leslie, Brain (Brian actually, but I always type Brain, so from now on, it's Brain) and the gang of BBQ pirates known as Ubon's were invited to cook in the Jack Daniel's 20th Annual Barbecue Invitational held in beautimus Lynchburg, Tennessee.
78 teams from across the nation were invited for the BBQ extravaganza, all with a state championship under their belts . Our home state of Mississippi was represented by two teams, Ubon's out of Yazoo City and Natural Born Grillers from Olive Branch.
Brain and the gang are very well known for their specialty, which is whole hog cookery, but in this competition, the items are pork shoulder, ribs, brisket and chicken. If you ease over to Ubon's website, you can catch a glimpse of the seven or eight trophies they've won over the years. Actually it's more like 100 and 8 trophies plus or minus 50 or 60. Or as my old man likes to quantify large numbers: a bunch!
I've been in my fair share of cooking competitions, but mostly chef vs. other chef dabber-doos which are kinda the same, but not really. There is the preparation, the planning. The travel, possibly. The worry and the minute to minute dilemmas that invariably crop up. The unpredictable malfunction, the screw-up and the occasional destruction of something, whether it be food, machine, or person. Add to this mano a mano competing style, several hundred more cooks and helpers, then mix in about 72 hours worth of hardcore drinking and you've got the grim potential for monumental screw-ups!
But not with Gary, Leslie and Brain at the helm of the fire pit. Even with all the drinking, all the carryin' on, all the hijinks during the long hours of manning a slow-cooking dead animal, they've got the moxie, the wherewithal and the what-have-you to keep it between the charcoal briquettes and somehow, someway, somewhere they won 2ND PLACE PORK!!! (Thanks for the correction Linda! Somebody 'round here cain't read!)
*scratching head*
I guess they simply known 'dey bidness.
Congratulations to Team Ubon's for another great turnout! Good job!
Oh and one other item. . .Ubon's also won Grand Champion 2 weeks ago in Cleveland, Mississippi at Octoberfest, but you can read all about that over at Linder and Cudi's place.
At Cleveland (photo stolen from Linder's blog):
. . .for a change.
I saw Brian from Ubon's BBQ cooking team this weekend. I stopped by his house with Beatrice on Friday night to have a bite to eat, chit-chat and to catch a glimpse at a hog he was cooking for his son's fraternity. I've been sworn to secrecy over what I saw and a chef's word is his word, so don't be coming to me mining for answers!
Brian told me that he and his compatroits with Ubon's have been invited to the Jack Daniel's 20th Annual Barbecue Invitational!!!! You might be saying, yeah so what, it's just another BBQ contest. Possibly. Until you recognize that this in an INVITATION ONLY event, so just over 60 teams from across the world will compete. And they are ALL winners.
Good luck Brian, Leslie, Gary and everyone else on the team! I have plenty of faith that y'all will bring home a trophy to a proud consti. . .constiuenc. . .to the people who love you most!!
More bacon sandwiches than you can shake a stick at!
This is what Brian from Ubon's BBQ in Yazoo City cooked this weekend.
This makes my pork shoulder look like a bologna sandwich on a stick. And not even thick cut bologna.
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