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Written by Chad The Elder   
Tuesday, 25 September 2007 12:26

In the interests of fairness and balance, True North readers who get their gastronomical guidance from the Bensonhurst Bomber should be aware of this stinging rebuttal to his recent post on John Hardy's BBQ:

I have mostly ignored Captain Ed’s new group blog about Canadian politics, True North, for two reasons: 1) I don’t care much about Canadian politics and 2) I’m still bitter that I wasn’t invited to contribute posts on U. S. College Hockey. Those Canadians think they’re the only ones who know hockey.

Now I can add a third reason to ignore True North: They don’t know good BBQ when they eat it. At least that is true for The Bensonhurst Bomber, who wrote a hate-filled review of John Hardy’s BBQ, one of the greatest restaurants in the BBQ capitol of North America, Rochester, Minnesota. This is especially sad for Dave Aeikens (who despite living in St. Cloud, knows more about hockey and BBQ than all of the contributors to True North combined) and myself, because of the efforts we have put in to educate the Bomber on the finer points of BBQ. (For those of you wondering about his moniker, Bensonhurst is, I think, his home borough in Winnipeg. The Bombers refer to his favorite Canadian Football League team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.)

You will most definitely want to read the whole thing.