Originally Posted by TMOliver

Any resemblances between the pork patty in a McD's McRib and at least visually, the BK facsimile are less than tenuous. BBQ, be it beef or pork (or other meats), is a cultural icon to those of us who live/have lived in the belt across the US from whence the culinary tradition came and in which it survives in classic form. Sloshing some thick, gummy, over-sweetened glop atop baked, prepared meats in not BBQ, and practitioners and regular consumers thereof are not worth the wood it would take to immolate them at some gala auto-de-fe purging us of heretics.