Was a bit under the weather but I am lurking.

Glad you're back and feeling better, Jack.

I hate when that happens. (being under the weather , not Jack lurking.)



Sorry, I just love the barfing smiley. (notice I didn't say emoticon))

You'll know it is swine flu if you have an urge to wallow in a mud hole. Either that or you have been eating too much Bar-B-Que.

mmmmmmm BACON !!!!!

God I love bacon, aint nothin' like it.

My mother-in-law fixed me a nice big bacon egg and toast breakfast yesterday. What a great way to start your day.

Why does everything that tastes sooo good have to be bad for you ?!?!?!?!

I deep fry my eggs in bacon greas and they are soooooo good.

They'l kill ya, but you'll die happy and well feed.

What a way to go !!!!

Bacon is the crack cocaine of the meat world.


Chics just don't get it. I have women ask me all the time what to give their men for a present.

The answer is simple and univeral..... MEAT !!!

All they need to do is go buy the nicest, biggest most expensive piece of his favorite cut and maybe a Dungenses (sic?) crab or two and serve it up (wearing something from Victoria's Secret or such wouldn't be bad either). Some nice butery garlic escargo (sic?) or fresh Tuna or Wahoo (raw or seared) isn't a bad choice either (in addition to, although, I'm not quite sure how snails or fish would look in a thong.)


I'm a guy and I like MEAT !!! If you stab it with a fork and it goes "Moooo", it's done !!!! Put it on a plate and bring it to me !!!!

Some folks don't like eating animals.

Think about it: If we're not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?


( I'm hungry, can you tell? )

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate vegetables. - A. Whitney Brown

Oh, and too much barbecue? That's just crazy talk!

Glad to hear you're back on the mend Jack. Guess you haven't been tackling any projects during the down time?

I spend a year in Malaysia working for Motorola. Malaysia consists of 60% Muslim Malay's, 30% Chinese and 10% Indians. Food in this part of the world is excellent as it's the spice capitol of the world. The Muslims do not eat pork, the Indians do not eat beef, the Chinese eat everything. So there's quite a mix of flavors. I'll never forget having mutton pizza - mmmmmm. Actually, not too bad. I think it was Pizza Hut too. Don't remember the details, but the menu at McDonalds was strange also.

My Indian friends do not eat beef since they are Hindu. They choose not to eat pork as it's considered dirty and frowned upon in this primarily Muslim country. They've asked why us Americans are so nuts over hamburgers.

Then there's BACON. As you said kellysguy, there's nothing like it. It's got to be the best tasting meat on the planet. My Indian friends are wonderful people, but I'll never get over the idea of going through life never tasting Bacon. What a loss.

Mmmm wife fixed a bone in rack of pork loin last Sunday. Stuffed with fruit and drowned in port. Wow talk about heaven. Making me hungry for lunch already.

I've finally gotten a smoker with an offset firebox and am learning to use it.
I typically bring home over 100 pounds of salmon fillets from my summer fishing trip, now I have something interesting to do with it.

Soon I'll try smoking something else, maybe some nice ribs...

I'm not a vegetarian because I think what you eat should have the opportunity to escape before you capture it. Just because Cows and Chickens and Pigs can't get their act together is not my problem. And, yes, there is no such thing as too much BBQ - one of the things I miss more than you can imagine living back in Canada, though I've found one place.

Here BBQ is what you do, not what you eat

Since passing 40 I have found that there IS such a thing as too much barbcue, at least at one sitting.

LOL !!!

When I was a M.E major at U.N.O, I was a student worker for N.A.M.E dept. I was asked tto help a M.E proffesor's Chinese grad student build a wind tunnel. (I was the only SW in the engineering department that could actually make the stuff they designed.)

Nice guy, bad breath and stank in general. One day we went for lunch and I asked where he wanted to go:

"Me not know, you choose".



"How about a hamberger?"



"Me no like beef."



"What about Popeye's fried chicken?"



"Me no like chicken."

(BACKGROUND NOTE: clearly this guy has a REAL problem with food as this dude doesn't like Popeye's fried chicken. It's a staple here and MANDATORY! Eveyone my age was RAISED on Popeye's. "Popeye and Pals" would come on evey Sunday morning and the big thing was to get on the show in the gallery of "Pals" and eat the freakin' chicken. If you got on, you were an instant celebrity. We could have easily wacked this guy for this reason and got away with it. I was ready to at that point. It's only the BEST FRIED CHICKEN ON THE PLANET !!! I've been told all my life, "Eat all of your (whatever), there are kids starving in China", apparently NOT !!! If they are, why don't they eatfreakin' beef and chicken ?!?!?!?! The muthareaux sure doesn't look like he's been starvin' to me !!!! How the h--l is he supposed to describe what other tings taste like if he's never eaten chicken??? How you supposed to say "tastes like chicken" if you've never ate any?!?!?!?!

(pronounced: "mutharoo", a word apparently my Dad came up with for a substitution for the obvious. I've never heard it used by anyone else until very recently, so I'm formally claiming it as his. Not even memebers of my own family use it. I never thought much of it till my friends brought it up. He's been saying it since before I was born and that was 1969......AND WE ATE CHICKEN THEN TOO.... but Popeye's wasn't around yet.)

Maybe it was his bad breath getting in the way of all that crispy spicey chicken goodness. Popeye's is the closest thing to bacon you'll find this side of chicken.

("Me no like chicken".....where's my 45 ?!?!?!?!?)



"Dude, ya don't eat beef; you don't eat CHICKEN, WHAT THE H--L DO YOU EAT ?!?!?"



"Me like pork"



(so, me being the clown that I am)


"What about cat?"



"Me no eat cat."



"What about dog?"

......loooong pause.......



"Me might have eaten dog a relative house once BUT, me not know."



~SURE~ ~BUDDY~, ~WHATEVER~YOU~SAY ~ !!!




"Doesn't eat chicken."

It's unAmerican.

Only a communi... oh, wait a minute