AOL’s City’s Best is running a poll to find the best barbecue in North Jersey. I’m really surprised to see Famous Dave’s leading the pack since it’s a franchise whore these days. Big Ed’s Barbecue, where I spent over 7 years of my life working for, is just trailing in second. Voting ends in just about a month.

Update: Ed’s is inching closer.  22% to 25% with a month to go. 

I was asked by Shangning.net to respond to a ‘blog question game.’  While I don’t normally participate in these sort of things,  I figured I won’t be such a Grinch this year.  However, I’m responding on my terms, which is just responding to one of the questions.  The one question is, “What sort of food would you like best?”  I won’t be asking any of you, in specific, to do this on your site, but if you’re reading this and want to do it, then head on over to shangning.net to see the rules and the rest of questions (holy run-on sentence, Batman).

First, I love food (who doesn’t), so this is actually quite hard to answer.  Growing up, I loved a meal my mother would make quite often — chicken cutlets, mashed potatos, and corn.  This was a comfort meal for me, and still is to this day.  It certainly helps me recall many fond memories growing up.  Especially the many times of running in from playing outside to eat dinner, shove dinner down my throat only to then run back outside again to play. 

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…and he came to me in the form of a bag of Rold Gold Baked Cheddar Mini Sticks Pretzels.

I don’t know if these things really are all that great, or if I’m just being fat (my money is on I’m just being fat), but these things really are Jesus in pretzel form.

And no, these don’t leave you with Jesus-breath.  You know, Jesus-breath — that taste left in your mouth after you finished the Eucharist.  Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I’m surely going to hell.