Huckabee attributes his success as "an Arkansas politician" to "knowing barbecue"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

January 26, 2008, 12:29 PM
Huckabee: Barbecue Expert?
Posted by Joy Lin

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/01/26/politics/fromtheroad/entry3755048.shtml

LAKELAND, FLA. – A man, wearing a big “Uncle Chubby’s” grilling apron handed Mike Huckabee a styrofoam box of beef brisket and ribs. Huckabee opened the box and stabbed his fork into the barbecue – lunch for breakfast.

“That really is good. Trust me, I know barbecue. You don’t get to be an Arkansas politician and not go to a few of these things.”

Huckabee made a morning campaign stop at the local pig fest, arriving before most stands had opened for business but not so late that he wouldn’t get mobbed by supporters, onlookers, and members of the press.

“Did you see his apron?” a woman nearby pointed out. “Don’t trust no skinny cook.”

“I’m all about it,” he said.

Huckabee, who is famous for dropping 110 pounds, still considers himself an excellent cook, having shared his methods to reporters since Iowa. When handed a bottle of barbecue sauce today, he announced, “Now I’m a connoisseur of good barbecue and good barbecue sauce. My own ribs – my family can tell you – are as good as you can have.”

At another point, he quipped. “When God intended barbecue, he meant it to be pork. Texans go out, they burn a bunch of beef, and they call it barbecue."

[hisownpetard]

1. “When God intended barbecue, he meant it to be pork." Well, when he re-writes the Constitution,

he might put a mention of that in it, too, since he's such an expert of what God wants.

Does God prefer ketchup or mustard on your fries, Huck?