The Second Best Steak in the World (Santa Barbara, Santa Maria: houses, trendy)

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by TrueTimbers

(Watch out now, you are likely to get manure on your shoes, we better get you some boots... cause next up is a field trip for you..)

Better that we all get boots for ourselves so we can slog through all of his **** without getting any on us.

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Better that we all get boots for ourselves so we can slog through all of his **** without getting any on us.

Make mine rubber, because if I have to decide between grass-finished, grain-finished, pasture-fed, or salad-stuffed beef cow leather, I'll miss the show.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

Tell us dear user, just off the top of your head, without googling, what are cows fed?

It depends on the operation, but they aren't fed "salads" as we eat them. But like I said, I was speaking about what cows consume naturally. Feeding cattle things we can eat ourselves is a practice that only makes sense in today's era of wasteful excess (which will end...), traditionally cattle made sense because they could convert something we can't eat into food.

The cattle I grew up around? Grasses...they were pasturing cattle. Sorta amusing getting chased by them...can get pretty aggressive when their are calves. Didn't grow up around feedlots, thankfully.....

[.highnlite]

Your take on feed is exactly what you want it to be, in order to make your point. Your limitations are, that you really know nothing about the subject. You know those cows went to a feed lot before the slaughterhouse doancha. It is the American way.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

Your limitations are, that you really know nothing about the subject. You know those cows went to a feed lot before the slaughterhouse doancha. It is the American way.

Sure thing dude...

[Think4Yourself]

I did like Santa Maria style BBQ when I lived on the central coast but it is really a grilled meat product more than BBQ as BBQ must be smoked using indirect heat. Still, a tritip grilled over coastal oak is indeed a delicious treat.

[.highnlite]

Grilling is an eastern term, not used in the West. Barbecue a verb meaning to cook meat over an open fire. What ever they do to meat back in the east is not barbecue, and if I am not mistaken they use barbecue as a noun, for the meat.

In the west Barbecue can be used as a noun, for the apparatus used to cook the meat, generally followed by the word pit, as in The Barbecue Pit, this is the the proper use of the term as it was originally used by the Indians of the South East and Caribbean,

Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida, and entered European languages in the form barbacoa. The word translates as "sacred fire pit."[1] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks.

The origin of Santa Maria Style Barbecue is from the Rancho days, when a whole steer would be thrown upon coals to cook. One of the characteristics of the highest level of civilization ever achieved by mankind. The California Rancho period.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Think4Yourself

as BBQ must be smoked using indirect heat.

That's what tejanos say. We tend to not follow their traditions.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by TrueTimbers

Just think what a bus load of city folks could do to that field when they figure out it is not just "grass".. Some folks like to stick wheat grass in various places...
Wheatgrass Enema to Replace Friendly Bacteria and Nourish

That might have a worse effect than the cows on your winter wheat, a bus load of city folks in wheat grass heaven... Rolling around and shoving it up their rears and all... That would make a real mess of that field...

$4 plus a shot at juice bars in the city.... Lucrative business, pays more juiced than by the bushel of grain..

You could set up a sign charge a fee, run some extension cords out for their juicers and what not... Bus the city folks out let them have at it...

If it has the same affect on them city slickers that it did on my Herefords they don't need to do nothin but wait And rubbers won't save you, might want to try rain gear and goggles

[Think4Yourself]

highnlite, I'm well aware of the origins and have had it numerous times since I used to live very near Santa Maria and so have eaten it many times in Santa Ynez, Santa Maria, and other locations nearby. Like I said, it does taste good but, sorry, people on the west coast really don't have a clue about real BBQ. If it isn't smoked it isn't BBQ. End of story.