> wrote in message
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> Yeah, very surprised by the complexity...
>
> I was working in VA (just outside DC) a few years ago. There was a farm
> near my office complex. One of the farmers would smoke a large pig
> every day in a homemade smoker he kept right by the road. At lunch
> time, we would all go over there to get $5.00 plates of pretty decent
> Q. By 2:30 he would sell all the meat and always had a pretty
> impressive wad of cash (income tax free).
> When I lost my job, I stopped in for my last meal and thought to myself
> "..this guy with a 3rd grade education has the best gig in town and
> sleeps much better than me....".
>
> Nat


If you read the history of barbecue, there were many people that did that
sort of thing. Probably the best food you can get. Today, they'd take you
to court and take away the family farm in court costs and fines.

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