Best/Worst Cities for Barbecue HAHAHAHAHA

Just got back from Graceland and it was awesome. No BBQ yet.

 

They used to be ubiquitous at airports and travel plazas on I95

 

There are Sbarro stands in most food courts in (second-rate) casinos. They're next to the Nathan's hot dogs and Subway.

 

I guess if you're in a shitty casino, you don't care about having the shittiest non-St. Louis pizza in the world.

 

Surprised by all the hate for Bono’s. My grandparents lived in Jacksonville and we grew up on Bono’s when we visited. I don’t know if it’s gone downhill as it expanded, but it was great in the 70s and 80s. I guess if you don’t like tart mustard-based sauce it won’t be for you. But love it or hate it, you gotta admire a Jewish guy (Lou Bono) making a fortune selling pork to the gentiles (though my grandparents - who are buried right near him - only let us order the chicken and beef).

 

We had a Bono's here, it's recently changed names but kept the same ownership. Don't know if it's related, but man, it sucks. No matter what the name.

 

I arranged to go to Memphis and Dallas last summer. I visited both the museum in the Texas School Book Depositary and the museum across the street from the Civil Rights Museum that focuses on King's murder. I did not even know that the museum about King's murder existed until I went to the Civil Rights Museum but it is quite well done and interesting.

The curators of the King museum were skeptical that James Earl Ray did not have co-conspirators. They made the point that after the shooting Ray went to Canada, bought at least four fake passports, then hid out in London. He was arrested when he was going through British immigration to catch a flight the Brussels. British immigration officials noticed one the extra passports in his luggage.

Which leads to two questions the museum asks.

1. How did Ray, who was a back country thug, acquire the street knowledge to become an international fugitive.

2. Where did he get the money?

 

There is an excellent Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham. There's also a walking trail including historical markers covering a number of significant sites of shitty things that happened in the 50's and 60's here. The city once known as "Bombingham" has embraced the fight for Civil Rights.

 

The FBI contracted the killing of MLK is much more believable than the CIA and Mafia conspiracy to kill JFK

 

I have never believed that Oswald was part of a larger conspiracy because after Kennedy was shot, Oswald took a bus back to his rooming house. The CIA, the Mafia or any other group that wanted to kill the Kennedy would sure as hell not had the hit man try to escape on Dallas mass transit. They could have easily arranged for a car for Oswald to drive out of Dallas.

Ray, on the other hand, had a car and a lot of fake identification. He quickly went to Toronto, bought fake passports and went to London. No one has ever determined where the money for Ray's travels prior to the murder or his escape came from.

 

Shouldn’t this list be based off of the trees in the region and the meat available in the region?