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This Week’s Greatest Hits from the Young & Hungry Blog: July 4th Edition
It’s a short work week, and we at Young & Hungry Central have just the thing you need: beer and dining recommendations for the Fourth. We also have something for your reading pleasure:
The top blog posts of the week.
- Obama Ate Here: The Working Map (with apologies and gratitude to BrightestYoungThings)
- What Did Your $10 Ticket Get You at the Safeway Barbecue Battle?
- On July 4th Weekend, Buy American Beer
- Breadline Busted on 19 Health Code Violations, Ten of Them Critical
- Dairy Godmother’s Owner Doesn’t Want the Obama Bump That Ray’s Hell Burger Got
Photo by cristinabe via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License
What Did Your $10 Ticket Get You at the Safeway Barbecue Battle?
It’s no secret that I love barbecue. It’s the result of living in two regions — Kansas City and Texas — with celebrated ‘cue cultures. To say I was excited about visiting the Safeway Barbecue Battle on Sunday would be an understatement.
The organizers of the event sent me two tickets in the mail. Had I paid for them, like almost everyone else at this outdoor meat fest, they would have cost me $10 each. I used one and went solo to the massive event, which stretched five blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue NW. I didn’t bring much money with me and, since I had lost my check card recently, didn’t have access to any cash from the portable ATMs on site.
I almost starved to death.
I have to admit that I was startled by the fact that my ticket got me next to nothing to eat. I had, perhaps foolishly, expected that the contestants in the barbecue battle would be, at the very least, offering samples to the public. That was not the case — at least when I was there on Sunday afternoon. Most of the samples available were products that Safeway, the sponsor, was pimping.
Regardless, I decided early on that I was not going to pay Famous Dave’s or Old Glory any money for their crappy barbecue. I was going to eat freebies only — or I wasn’t going to eat at all. I wasn’t here for the music, after all. I was here to eat.
Here’s what I ate:
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