Are you like me? Have you always considered the intrawebs a wasteland littered with cat videos and naked? As it turns out, there may be a practical use for this contraption after all, because it can apparently guide us to meat.
I consider barbecue, particularly the smoked pig available in my home state, to be the finest food one can dine upon. The people who prepare it properly are part craftsman, part chef and part crazy dudes who play with fire. The only problem with barbecue is knowing where to get the good stuff. Lots of restaurants have barbecue on the menu, but it unfortunately is often of the generic, crockpot, cafeteria, overly-sweet goopy variety. You often have to rely on reviews you've read or word-of-mouth, but if you're in area you aren't familiar with, it can be a total crapshoot...that's if you can find a barbecue joint at all. This is where the intrawebs come in. I got a press release the other day about a new online SC barbecue restaurant locator. It can provide directions, street views, phone numbers, hours of operation, reviews and more for the hundreds of barbecue restaurants in our state. You can also type in your address, select a distance you're willing to drive and it will show you every smoked meat eatery that fits your search criteria. This may rank right up their with air conditioning and pie as mankind's greatest, most useful inventions. I've gone to the site and messed around with it a little. What I've been able to gleen thus far is that I work in area that is severely underserved where barbecue is concerned. I typed in "Chester" and set a 10-mile radius...I got nothing. By upping it to 25 miles I was given ONE flippin' restaurant. I work in a meat desert. Someone please bring a mustard-based, porcine oasis here. HEP!!!!! Anyway, have a look at the website...the full press release is below. The South Carolina BBQ Trail just became easier to navigate thanks to local SC barbecue blog destination-bbq.com. The SC BBQ Locator Map is the latest enhancement to the blog that covers all things SC BBQ. In addition to the map, there are restaurant reviews, video profiles, and an events calendar tracking BBQ festivals and competitions statewide. South Carolina boasts over 270 barbecue restaurants, so there is likely more than one near you right now. The question is: Do you know where to find them and what to expect when you get there? Many concerns those searching for good barbecue may have are alleviated with one quick look at the free, interactive map. Searchers can tell what a BBQ place looks like, when it is open, and discover how long it will take to get there. Many of the restaurants have also been reviewed on the website, which is the #2 ranked blog on Urbanspoon. “The map was born out of frustration, honestly,” said James Roller, publisher. “We were in Myrtle Beach for our son Camden’s baseball tournament and decided we needed to try a new barbecue restaurant,” Roller said. The restaurant they decided to try was closed when they arrived on a Sunday afternoon and Roller and his wife, Heather, discovered there was no easy way to find another good barbecue location. “Riding down 701, Heather was searching Google and even our printed copy of the SC BBQ Trail Map, but nothing was simple,” Roller said. “We never did get any BBQ on that trip, and that’s when we decided to create the map.” The SC BBQ Locator Map at destination-bbq.com will locate every restaurant in an area you choose, show a photo of the building, provide basic contact information, reveal the operating hours, show the distance from your current location, and even give a street view look at the surroundings. When searchers find the right place eat, the map will even provide turn-by-turn directions and show the route. The map can be found here: http://www.destination-bbq.com/sc-bbq-map-locator/
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