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Barbecue spaghetti is a dish from
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, that combines
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with a sauce made from shredded smoked pork or
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, vegetables, and
barbecue sauce Barbecue sauce (also abbreviated as BBQ sauce) is a sauce used as a marinade, basting, condiment, or topping for meat cooked in the barbecue cooking style, including pork, beef, and chicken. It is a ubiquitous condiment in the Southern United ...
. It is served as a side dish in some Memphis barbecue restaurants. ''Southern Living'' called the dish iconic and "perhaps the city's most unusual creation". ''HuffPost'' called it "a Memphis staple".


Preparation and serving

Barbecue spaghetti can be made with pulled pork or shredded smoked pork. The sauce is "half
marinara Marinara sauce is a tomato sauce usually made with tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions. Variations include capers, olives, spices, and a dash of wine. Widely used in Italian-American cuisine, it is known as ''alla marinara'' ('sailor's style' ...
and half barbecue sauce", sometimes with onions and peppers included, and is simmered before adding the pork; the consistency is close to that of barbecue sauce. The spaghetti is cooked until soft, then tossed in the hot sauce. This dish is served as a side and sometimes as a main course.


History

The dish was invented by former railroad cook Brady Vincent, who opened a barbecue restaurant called Brady and Lil's. In 1980 Frank and Hazel Vernon bought the restaurant and renamed it The Bar-B-Q Shop. Vincent also taught the recipe for barbecue spaghetti to Jim Neely, who opened Interstate Bar-B-Q in the late 1970s; Interstate modified the sauce recipe adding the "extra back flap meat" from a rack of ribs and cooking it in a pot with peppers and onions. State Park restaurant in
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, serves a "Memphis BBQ spaghetti" that uses pulled pork in a marinara that uses a barbecue sauce as its base.


Similar dishes

According to John Shelton Reed, "Barbecue spaghetti is to spaghetti Bolognese as
Cincinnati chili Cincinnati chili (or Cincinnati-style chili) is a Mediterranean-spiced list of meat-based sauces, meat sauce used as a topping for spaghetti or hot dogs ("coneys"). Both dishes were developed by immigrant restaurateurs in the 1920s. Its name e ...
is to the Tex-Mex variety".
Filipino spaghetti Filipino spaghetti (also known as sweet spaghetti) is a Philippine cuisine, Filipino adaptation of Italian cuisine, Italian spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. It has a distinctively sweet sauce, usually made from tomato sauce sweetened with brown ...
is spaghetti noodles, tomato sauce mixed with
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or other sweetener, and topped with hot dogs and cheese.


See also

* List of foods of the Southern United States *
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List of regional dishes of the United States The cuisine of the United States includes many regional or local dishes, side dishes and foods. This list includes dishes and foods that are associated with specific regions of the United States. Regional dishes of the United States Barbecu ...
* Culture of Memphis, Tennessee *
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, another example of a fusion-cuisine spaghetti dish *
Filipino spaghetti Filipino spaghetti (also known as sweet spaghetti) is a Philippine cuisine, Filipino adaptation of Italian cuisine, Italian spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. It has a distinctively sweet sauce, usually made from tomato sauce sweetened with brown ...
, another example of a fusion-cuisine spaghetti dish *
Haitian spaghetti Haitian spaghetti (sometimes espageti, espaghetti, spaghetti a l'hatienne or espageti ayisyen) is a dish of Haitian cuisine typically served for breakfast. It typically consists of spaghetti noodles and hot dogs in a sauce made from ketchup and ...
, another example of a fusion-cuisine spaghetti dish


References

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