At the Maryland State BBQ Championship (mdbbq.com), all vendors are
required to compete. You can't get samples from all the competitors
(health regs, you know), but you at least know that if you're buying
from a vendor, you're buying from a competitor.

I don't know how much worse the product that the vendors sell is
compared to what they submit for the competition. Although I've
judged at this event, I haven't bought from a vendor. Besides, the
judging is blind, so I wouldn't know which vendor's Q I was eating,
anyway.

But...if you can get to Wildwood, NJ, you can get to Bel Air, MD, and
I recommend that you do so August 12-13.

--THC

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