About my post below, that is an example of gentrification of sorts – the gentrification of cuisine.

My partner actually thought of that idea, and it’s a good one. Real barbecue is cooked for a long time on an open air smoker using (usually) real oak or similar wood.

I guarantee none of those restaurants are doing that. They just could not afford to keep the doors open and do it that way.

What they are selling is yuppie barbecue that is designed to replicate the experience of authentic barbecue in acceptably posh surroundings without having any of the real flavor or essence that makes great barbecue great.

Most yuppies who can afford to eat at those places will have no idea that they’ve been conned, that they aren’t eating anything like real barbecue and might not even like it if they did.

Anyway, here’s what real barbecue made in a real smoker looks like. Notice how the ribs and barbecue in the yuppie restaurants’ photos look absolutely nothing like this, because many of them haven’t actually been smoked and if they were, it was for far too short a time.

Now that’s falling off the bone properly cooked and smoked barbecue. From here.