THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, November 4, 1996 TAG: 9611020019
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 25 lines
My husband and I were born and raised in Portsmouth and lived there until about seven months ago. We now live in Alton, Ill., a small city located directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Mo. We genuinely appreciate your sending us your editor, Cole Campbell, who now works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Truly, that was very thoughtful.
But what we really need is some Southern-style pit-cooked pork barbecue. There are no grocers in the Illinois/Missouri region who sell genuine Southern-style pit-cooked pork barbecue. A few of them think they sell barbecue, but it's really a pork chop drowned in red barbecue sauce. It is not true Southern barbecue.
We surely do enjoy living in Alton (even if no one here uses the word ``y'all'') but we wish to warn other Virginians who are headed to the Midwest, bring your own barbecue. And please, bring us some also.
ROSEMARY THORNTON
TOM THORNTON
Alton, Ill., Oct. 18, 1996 by CNB