Subject: Re: [Harp-L] blues history (and the Barbecue)

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Smo-Joe writes:
 
"Here's what happened. Og & Zog (neanderthal men) knocked down a  large  
herbivore. They hung it from a tree and gutted it. Then  the sky  
suddenly got black and lightning struck the tree. One  large limb fell  
to the ground on fire, while the quadruped hung  from the other limb.  
That was it. To try and credit it to any  one country or people is  
just silly.

smokey-joe"
 
.....you're too funny...I love it.  Just what I was thinking  too.  Haven't 
people been grilling meat over wood, peat or  coal for eons?  I daresay even my 
Scottish ancestors were out on  the moors roasting mutton, venison and 
salmon, all of which could  constitute "barbecue" in idea if not in name.   'Course 
they  were playing bagpipes and not harmonicas at the time...probably not the  
blues.     :)
 
Elizabeth