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March 25, 2008:
The Church of Barbecue, Epistle I
Like my father before me, I worship at the Church of Barbecue. I live in a place with long, serious winters, so I don't get to practice my faith year-round, but I try to make up for it. The instant the temperature creeps above 50 degrees, or even remotely feels like it's warmish, out comes the Hasty-Bake or the Weber (more about these two essential pillars of my faith, and the differences between them, later) from the garage, and on go the ribs or the steaks or the chickens or the game hens or the ducks or the pork loins or the sausages or what have you.
Though I consider myself to be an observant and devout practitioner of my faith, my father is the undisputed High Priest. Daddy's brisket has been known to make grown men and women fall to their knees, their eyes rolling in their heads, incoherent groans of ecstasy issuing from their mouths. And that's nothing compared to the fervor elicited by his whole smoked chickens or his bone-in pork loin with mango sauce. It was my father who introduced me to the mysteries of our faith, and who continues to inspire me by his righteous example.
Barbecue is a messy, complex religion, with various branches and offshoots. My family and I are members of the Dry Rub Communion. Think of us as the Protestants of barbecue — the protest being against all that needless drowning of innocent meat in goopy, over-spiced tomato sauce. Surely no beast deserves such an ignominious end to its existence, and no diner (with the possible exception of a few members of our current Administration) deserves to have such heresy practiced upon them....
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If the dog they'd known for years could change so drastically, Wiggums and Kit wondered, could their own identities reliably persist?
It's not as if Bandit had been pining for feline companions. Fup arrived and — presto! Different dog. Was some kind of voodoo at work? How else to account for the turnabout? Might one day some wayward mallard or turtle show up and cause a similar transformation in one of the cats?
Kit feared a looming existential crisis. If you couldn't reliably conform to your own expectations, how could you ever trust anyone else to stay the same?
That Saturday marked the end of Fup's first week in Boring. After dinner, Wiggums broke down and asked, "What have you done to our dog?"
Fup shrugged.
"Until you got here," Wiggums continued, "Bandit wouldn't let Kit and me into the living room. And now, this." With a clenched paw, Wiggums poked the dog's hind end. Bandit merely sighed.
And so Fup addressed the German shepherd directly. "Tell them," she prodded, "what I did to you."
Bandit's eyes opened wide. We weren't going to talk about this, they seemed to be saying.
"Tell us," Kit pleaded.
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