Dine on swine

By Joe McAdory

Published: March 30, 2009

I was afforded the luxury of judging ribs Saturday afternoon at the Boda Getta BBQ competition at the Ag Heritage Park on the campus of AU. Not a bad gig. Each judge was given ribs from six different cooks (I call them BBQ artists) and scored the ribs on tenderness and taste.

I believe Saturday’s big winners were the teams Jiggy Piggy from Auburn and the Opelika Porker Tour. The judges were winners too. Once we finished scoring our sample bites, we ate all the rest of the ribs. It was like a rib buffet, with each rib different from the other. It’s by far the most cholesterol I’ve consumed since January when I ate a double chili cheeseburger and onion rings at The Varsity, but I don’t care.