Silly New Yorkers think vegan fruit sandwich is 'barbecue'

[TexasTowelie]

Chickpea and olive

This week the New York Post reported on another culinary leap from the Big Apple that will make Texans and other barbecue aficionados recoil in terror.

Or at least laugh their butts off.

According to the outlet, a vegan pop-up vendor at Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg food market is serving up a barbecue sandwich “smothered in Carolina barbecue sauce and topped with bread-and-butter pickles, slaw, shallots and horseradish aioli,” but instead of meat they’re using unripe, roasted jackfruit.

Most of us likely remember a few creations that previously came from the north and caused a ruckus this year. New York chefs thought that guacamole needed to invite peas to the party, for one, and that just won't stand.

Read more: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/life/food/article/Silly-New-Yorkers-think-vegan-fruit-sandwich-is-6556116.php

[longship]

1. Glad to kick, because it looks very yummy.

However, as an omnivore, I must also post this:

Glad to R&K for you, TT.

BTW, can I get a sharp knife with that? It looks bigger than my head and my mother always told me, "Never eat anything bigger than your head." And who doesn't listen to ones mother?

[hobbit709]

2. As the old Pace commercial used to say "Get a rope"

[Javaman]

3. meh, anything tastes good smothered in BBQ sause.

that's no great leap of logic.

my sister is a vegetarian and every year for xmass I send her about 6 bottles of various BBQ sauce from here in Texas.

she loves the stuff.