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True - but when's the last time you saw a contestant on "The Biggest Loser" woof down a slab of ribs?

Absolutely. It's a by product of that and how many calories one burns when one gets one's ass up off the couch.

Calories in vs calories out.

I resemble that remark ! Now, where did my clicker go ?

"Authentic down home Southern barbeque with websites? Wi-fi? Follow them on Twitter?"

Supposedly, Sweatman's doesn't even have a telephone, or didn't until recently. Still awaiting replies from Sweat vets. I suspect that Bourdain liked Sweatman's for something horrifically fatty that we would never order. But I like the idea of going to a place that's not near a strip mall and is open only on weekends.

The two hotel employees who had never heard of a supposedly fabled barbecue place less than 20 miles away were both: 1) young and 2) white. A young black employee did not reply. So with utmost respect to all, I ask if barbecue preference in South Carolina might contain an underlying racial element, or perhaps a generational divide.

DonDiego is thanked for steering us away from Dukes of dubious heraldry.

Weight loss and gain is different for everyone. Everyone has a different Metabolism. I know many people I can use as examples to show it's not as simple as what a person eats. I have a brother who is almost 29 and never works out. He's not an active person in the sense that he doesn't workout, play sports, not outdoors a lot, and has a desk job. I am not saying he is a person who eats complete junk food, but he doesn't go out of his way to eat healthy either. He eats out a few times a weeks, and also eats in with his wife a few times a week. He drinks a lot of pop/soda. He probably weighs 170 pounds at most..... Some people have better Metabolism and some people are lucky or unlucky with family genetics. I agree that a lot of it does have to do with what/how you eat, and how much you workout and stay active. Just trying to point out that there many other factors too.

Bard, you do know that Anthony Bourdain has pig on the brain at all times. His astrological sign is one of a pig (just joking) and I swear that man has not met any pork flesh that he would not fall down on his knees to eat.

I agree with Snidely about vinegar on BBQ, there IS no place for it.

Like Bourdain I could wallow with a nice jucy BBQ'd pig about now.

Is bardolator trying to ruin a perfectly happy thread on purpose?

Arthur Bryant, a gentleman of the Black persuasion, founded Arthur Bryant’s Restaurant in the 1920s. He served anyone who entered. It remains a mecca in the Kansas City area. He ran it until 28 December 1982 when he collapsed at the restaurant at the age of 80.

It's all about the sauce, man.

My dear DD, Mr Bryant wasn't the only one who served anyone. There are quite a few places down south where race didn't matter, only people looking for some good food.

DonDiego has no reason to doubt chefantwon, . . . but he couldn't find a cartoon with them in it.