Help name a barbecue blog?

August 5, 2013 9:47 PM

It's that time again: name that blog. It's a single-topic one: my quest to go from amateur barbecue hobbyist to -- who knows -- maybe entering a few competitions. Want to play up the angle of having grown up in Alabama but only gotten interested in BBQ while living in Yankee territory. My brainstorms haven't coalesced into something snappy yet. Help me, clever wordsmiths!

A few keywords that have been knocking around my head:

Regional: Alabama, red, red state, "barbecue belt", Mason-Dixon, Yankee, blue, blue state, Pennsylvania/Philly (though I will be moving within the next few year but hope to continue this past then). Can't think how politics would play in, but I was the weird outlier liberal then, but a totally middle-of-the-road liberal up here.

Having left the south: Exile, escape, escapee, refuge, refugee, runaway, expat, "makes good"

Various barbecue terms/slang: smoke ("blue smoke" is an especially good thing, but "blue _____" is a bit of a cliché), pig, pork, pork butt, rack, ribs, baby back, spare ribs, charcoal, low and slow, pit, pitmaster, hickory

Other: Patrick (my name), Dali (my dog's name)

Note: no Crimson Tide references-- I'm from Auburn. (Tiger/war eagle/etc ok, though I'm not a big college football fan.)


Somehow I can't turn all of this into a short, snappy, clever title. I find it amusing that I lived in Alabama for 15 years, couldn't care less about barbecue, and hated the place in general, but then got really into southeastern-style BBQ after buying a smoker on sale one Fall. I think it makes for a good running theme, and I'd love a title that hints at that. I just can't think of one. (Well, I can, but I don't like them very much.)

Needs to have an unused domain name (ideally .com) and hopefully an available twitter handle.

Thanks, clever people! (Best answers get to swing by to taste the fruits of my labor.)

posted by supercres to Computers & Internet (33 answers total)

"... butt seriously."
posted by scblackman at 10:00 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]

Meat themed:

Aporkalypse Now.

Swine, women and song.

PorkTalk.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 10:11 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

PostsouthernBBQ.com

AwayFromDownSouth.com BBQ

wtfyankeebbq.com
posted by Monsieur Caution at 10:12 PM on August 5, 2013

Blue 'Bama Q
Yankee Smoke
posted by carsonb at 10:13 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

The Persistence of Smokery
Camellion BBQ
Auburning Man
posted by argonauta at 10:25 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

BamaQue
posted by 26.2 at 10:47 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

Blue State Blues(moke)

Bama BBQ in exile
posted by lunasol at 11:17 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

Best answer: "Scalawag" is the closest there is to an antonym of "carpetbagger," and it has picaresque charm. The Scalawag's Smoker, or just Scalawag Smoke?

Alternately, Home is where the Hardwood is.
posted by mumkin at 11:43 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

BBQ Expat
or worse yet:
BBQ Expatrick
posted by nightwood at 12:01 AM on August 6, 2013

- Butts and Racks
- Once a Smoker
- Belly Food
- The Pitmaster Diaries
- Sweet Bones Alabama
posted by MuffinMan at 12:06 AM on August 6, 2013

Best answer: Also, The Blue Smoke and The Gray

Or, if you're happy with your mefi username, one might imagine a verse of your theme song that goes:

Bammity dude likes barbety-que,
He smoke-a the meat, make white sauce for you, and…

Maybe neologize and just call it Barbety-que. It's short, available and a certain kind of fresh.
posted by mumkin at 12:18 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

Pork on my Fork
(The) Hickory Pig
posted by Salamander at 1:16 AM on August 6, 2013

Pork Points
The Smokehouse
The South Rises Again
Tupelo and Tasso
posted by atchafalaya at 2:23 AM on August 6, 2013

Pitmaster in Exile
posted by h00py at 3:02 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

“It Came from the Pit”
posted by misteraitch at 3:11 AM on August 6, 2013

Alabama Smokes
posted by The Michael The at 4:16 AM on August 6, 2013

Trial by BBQ
posted by lovelygirl at 4:22 AM on August 6, 2013

The Alabama Newbie
Pitmaster Patrick
Southern Roots
BBQ in my Blood
posted by yawper at 4:30 AM on August 6, 2013

Blue Smoke, Red Meat
posted by jon1270 at 5:15 AM on August 6, 2013

Back to the Smoker
posted by h00py at 5:20 AM on August 6, 2013

It's A Noun, Not A Verb
posted by slkinsey at 5:25 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

I don't have a specific title for you, but how about playing off the idea of a"reverse carpetbagger?"
posted by Broken Ankle at 5:27 AM on August 6, 2013

Where There's Smoke
All-fired BBQ
Blue Smoke Signals
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:45 AM on August 6, 2013

Fire It Up, All Fired Up, Firing Up?
posted by dubadubowbow at 6:36 AM on August 6, 2013

Smoker in the Front, Pickler in the Rear (you will also have to make pickles. But this is easy and they go well with BBQ)
posted by boo_radley at 7:49 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

Oh! Wait! Are you doing any wet BBQ? How about "The South shall braise again"?
posted by boo_radley at 7:59 AM on August 6, 2013

Gettin' Up in My Grill
posted by aught at 9:18 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

Pork Relocation Program

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Smoker

Above the Barbeque Belt
posted by teleri025 at 2:13 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

Yankee Skewerer
Blue State BBQ
Blue State, Blue Smoke
Pink in the Center
Juicy, messy, delicious Yankee
posted by theora55 at 2:56 PM on August 6, 2013

The Smoke Ring
Tiger Rub
Lee County Line
Toomer's Smokes (maybe too soon)
Plains Style
Shug's
posted by halfbuckaroo at 5:51 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

E Porkibus Unum
posted by argonauta at 6:11 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]

"BBQ Fantasies" came up in conversation the other day and I thought hey that might make a great band name. Maybe it would be a good blog name?
posted by ropeladder at 7:21 PM on August 6, 2013

Response by poster: I think mumkin gets me. I love the Reconstruction-era perjorative slang. (Also points for the S&O.)

Thanks, all! (mumkin, IOU one BBQ.)
posted by supercres at 8:22 PM on August 6, 2013