"UNDERSTANDING MAN"..("THEY WILL COME")..(63)

How Did It All Become The Reality That It Is Today?....Well...Read On My Fellow Beings.... Who Can Consume Information And History At Just One Sitting....There Will Be No Second Helpings Here...Sorry To Say...So...Eat It... Up While You Can

"Let Us Go Back Into The Pastly Time Of Our Yesterdays"

"When The First Spanish Explorers Visited Haiti"
"They Got Their First Glimpse Of The Native Dish There"
"They Saw That The Natives There...Were Building Raised Frames For Cooking"
("Initially...To Keep Wild Animals Away From Getting At The Meat")

"And The Name Given To This Kind Of Set Up?".... "Was Called...Barbacoa"
"So...After Them seeing This New Way?"... "The Spainiards Would Do Their Cooking... In This New Style"
"And...They Adopted........ This Same Name That The Natives Used"

"Later... When This New Form Of Cooking..... Made Its Way To The United States"
"It Became Known With A New Twist On The Word...................."Barbecue"

"And...By The Year 1800?"...."Politicians... Also Jumped On The Barbecue Bandwagon"
"What A Great Idea... For A Political Rally!"(They Thought)
"If We Have A Barbecue?"...It Would Be A Great Way To Prevent People From Leaving"
"So...Between The Food.... And The Wine?"
"The Gatherings Never Lost......Not Even One From... The Gathered Throngs"

"So"
"In 1840..William Henry Harrison...A Candidate For President"
"Held A Mommoth Political Barbecue"
"After All The Speeches... And After It Was All Said And Done?"
"18 Tons Of Meat Was Consumed By The Very Large Gathering"
"Along With 557 Gallons Of Wine To Wash It All Down"
"So...Its Needless To Say ...That Ole William... Won The Presidential Election..... A Week Later"

"It Wasnt Until The Early 1950s"
"That The American General Public.... Took Up The Idea ....Of Cooking In Their Back Yards"
"The Original Word "Barbacoa"....Became "Barbecue"....And Then.... Shortened To "BBQ"

(Also...Back In Those Days)
("Most People Realized That If You Feed People...They Will Come")

"Kinda Has Me Thinking About That Slogan.... One Hears..... From Time To Time"

("The Way To A Mans Heart"..."Is Through His Stomach")

(Actually..In All Reality..The Proper Way To Be Saying This Is)

"The Way To A Mans Brain"......................."Is Through His Stomach"