{"id":3230,"date":"2018-08-13T20:52:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2021-05-08T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:40:56","slug":"in-praise-of-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/in-praise-of-messy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of &#8220;Messy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Big-Rib-Plate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3231\" src=\"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Big-Rib-Plate-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Big-Rib-Plate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Big-Rib-Plate-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Big-Rib-Plate.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I was in high school, I had an English and philosophy teacher who tried, mostly in vain, to drum up enthusiasm for reading the classics.\u00a0 Like a mantra, she\u2019d repeat,<\/p>\n<p><em>Remember\u2026they\u2019re not GOOD\u00a0 because they\u2019re OLD.\u00a0 THEY&#8217;RE <strong>OLD<\/strong> BECAUSE THEY\u2019RE <strong>GOOD.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think I have a comparable understanding about eating barbecued ribs.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not GOOD because they\u2019re MESSY.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>THEY&#8217;RE MESSY BECAUSE THEY\u2019RE GOOD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people have a special passion for barbecue.\u00a0 Old friends will argue over what makes the best ingredients for a rub.\u00a0 Like some political debates, because of such strong feelings, barbeque fundamentals can represent a taboo subject between, otherwise, the best of friends.<\/p>\n<p>To brine or not to brine?\u00a0 Smoker or charcoal grill with woodchips?\u00a0 Can ribs even be properly prepared on a gas grill?<\/p>\n<p>My paternal grandfather kept a kosher diet in his home (per Grandma Sarah\u2019s rules) but, on occasion, would enjoy a heaping plate of ribs at Russell\u2019s, a nearby barbecue joint.<\/p>\n<p>I have friends that maintain a predominantly vegetarian diet at home but go <em>hog wild<\/em> if they go on a meat eating spree.\u00a0 Spare or baby back pork ribs represent their indulgence of choice.<\/p>\n<p>I have not experienced Kansas City style barbecue, but I am pretty well-versed in Texas, Carolina, and Chicago style.\u00a0 A few years ago, I spent a glorious weekend with a friend in Memphis delighting in traditional offerings from Central BBQ and The Rendezvous.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that the Summer of 2018 was already into August and I had not yet fed my rib craving, this weekend, my goal was to find a willing partner in crime, to join me at Lillie\u2019s Q, a Chicago barbecue staple that markets it\u2019s vinegar, tomato, and mustard-based sauces in many states.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh!<\/p>\n<p>Eating ribs are delightfully messy.<\/p>\n<p>Even the language and etiquette around clearing a plate of barbecued ribs suggest untidy, unbridled consumption.<\/p>\n<p>If you seek out a nice steak or portion of fish, you order a prime cut or fillet.\u00a0 You eat a SLAB\u00a0 of ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Even though a serrated steak knife is usually employed to separate each rib (and attached meat), ribs are usually eaten with your fingers.<\/p>\n<p>With tangy, mildly salty collard greens and sweet potato fries, and a full assortment of sauces, sipping sweet tea from a Mason jar &#8212; Lillie\u2019s did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Not especially restrained when eating anything I enjoy (my dry cleaner can point to geographies on favorite sweaters where spatterings of salad dressing landed), any attempts to try to go slow and be neat when disengaging reddish-brown sauce doused chunks of meat from rib bones are abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>When eating ribs, It feels like permission is automatically given to let it all hang out. You can forget about whether your chin is streaked with barbecue sauce.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have time to be self-conscious.\u00a0 When you\u2019re happily engaged in a minor tug o\u2019war, pulling flesh connected bones apart, all you can think about is smelling and tasting EVERYTHING.\u00a0 You\u2019re very in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t help but laugh at yourself, at the thought of WEARING your dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Napkins are, thankfully, cheap and in ready supply.<\/p>\n<p>Licking your lips and savoring sweet and smoky sauces, remembering the flavors of the falling off the bone tender meat consumed hours earlier, is no small thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, I had an English and philosophy teacher who 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