Barbecue is a distinctly American art form, much like jazz music and feigning an understanding of jazz music. Celebrate patriotic cuisine with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get a one-year membership (a $25 value) from the Atlanta Bar-B-Q Club.
Atlanta Bar-B-Q Club brings lovers of all things barbecue together in a warm, delicious pit of education, discounts, and carnivorous camaraderie, earning it a glowing feature in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Join other saucy faces at the monthly “meatings,” held at local establishments, where guest speakers dispense grilling tips and antivegetable pamphlets while members eat and discuss goings-on in the barbecue community. Membership also dry-rubs meat lovers with 10% discounts to local member restaurants, an excuse to nickname yourself "Boss Hog," field trips to barbecue contests, and invites to private functions. Check the online schedule of events for upcoming club happenings.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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