NC lottery introduces BBQ-scented lottery tickets

[ChrisSmolinski]

In the never-ending effort to make buying a lottery ticket new and fun, the N.C. Education Lottery has come up with this: Tickets that smell like barbecue when you scratch them.

Lottery officials will unveil their new BBQ Bucks scratch-off tickets Tuesday at Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue in downtown Raleigh and at Queen City Q in Charlotte. The $2 scratch-and-sniff tickets will bring a chance to win up to $25,000 and to enter a secondary drawing for one of 10 prizes of 100 pounds of pork and a Big Green Egg to grill it on

North Carolina lottery officials say their tickets will smell like “smoky BBQ,” side-stepping the issue of whether it is eastern or western style.

Full article: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article33019527.html

[JCMaxwell]

Better be Lexington style! 

[Pigmeat]

Oh Hell no! The eastern style is the only way to go.

[JCMaxwell]

Yeccchhhh!

[Fansome]

Santa Maria style is clearly the best.

Oh Hell no! The eastern style is the only way to go.

[Zoidberg]

BBQ?  What is that?  Barbecue lite?  Barbecute?  Sounds like something east of Texas involving syrupy sauce and not enough smoke.   

[JCMaxwell]

...  Sounds like something east of Texas involving syrupy sauce and not enough smoke.   

That may describe eastern NC style, not Lexington style - vinegar based, no syrupy stuff, and just the right amount of smoke.

[ChrisSmolinski]

I find myself agreeing with Fansome, Santa Maria BBQ is quite delicious.

[Fansome]

http://www.mclintocks.com/menus/diningdinner.php

I find myself agreeing with Fansome, Santa Maria BBQ is quite delicious.

[refmo]

I'll have a lotto ticket and a packet of tums, please...

[Pigmeat]

Lexington ain't nothin' but molasses and vinegar. It poisons thousands of people each year. Follow the way of the land of the Nahunta, vinegar, peppers and a few secret spices.

Goldsboro is the place to go and Wilber Shirley is the man to know.

[Zoidberg]

I find myself agreeing with Fansome, Santa Maria BBQ is quite delicious.

Had to Google that.  I approve.  Seasoning sounds not to unlike a Texas style rub, and with more tender meat grilled hotter and faster.  Texas is usually a dry rub, although the secret mixtures vary (I use dry mustard - mostly due to my kin's German heritage - coriander, garlic and onion powders, cracked pepper and kosher or sea salt).  And we tend to favor brisket, which is fatty and tough unless slow smoked and covered.

Honestly, though, I like all barbecue and BBQ.  I spent some formative years in Georgia and developed a taste for the sweet sauce pulled pork and an orange soda - but not too often.  Trying not to kill my pancreas.

[Pigmeat]

Santa Maria BBQ? A California knockoff of a Great Plains flatheaded farmer's burnt beef bake-off! Slathered in ketchup so you don't have to taste what's underneath. You could be eating old boots and not know it in that slop.

BBQ is made from one thing and one thing only, a whole hog smoked for hours, and not with mesquite. No pig meat, no bbq. It's the Eleventh Commandment!