Quote Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah View Post
We grill year round here too but I don't think I ever heard of the lettuce thing at all in Florida.

Tell me you haven't taken a sip of beer and thought about grilling cantaloupe?

Ewww!

There is quite a bit of food that makes me wonder about what prompted the originator to do it! The grilled lettuce thing is probably a Nor Cal invention. You can go on some nifty winery tours, they will feed you a grilled lettuce at a tasting, You are so drunk you don't realize what you are eating until someone asks,

--------------------------

We have tons of different people and cuisines out here. The Pacific Rim is a wonderful place. (We just have to get N Korea to behave). There are some stores in the 'towns'-China, Korea, Thai-where you have the cooks out on the sidewalk with a smoking BBQ.

The Mexican supermarket up the street pulls out a GIANT BBQ into the parking lot and starts grilling chickens. The grill surface holds about 20-25 whole birds, they also do marinated skirt steak for tacos and burritos.
When I walk to the store and the wind is right, you can smell it about 2.5 blocks away.


I have to go on about the grilling thing. One of the most special things about So Cal grilling, is that where there is a will......

The huge steel barrel BBQs are VERY popular- You can find one on every block. I have seen people put together some wild contraptions in order to make a grill.

I passed by a GF program where he was doing a seaside party in Mexico. He was 'laughing' at the grill he was using.

In typical Mexican fashion, someone took a steel tire rim, welded some rebar legs onto it and voila! Instant BBQ! It was really cool -I wish I knew how to weld! I have seen everything from a paint can, with holes punched in the sides and a scrap piece of chicken wire for a grill,s to someone taking a steel barrel, splitting it lengthwise and adding a grill made of steel screen door
material.

I love my heritage. If it holds hot coals?

The other thing that cracks me up is around the summer holidays you see guys with giant BBQs in the bed of their trucks, heading for the park.

They don't mess around with the small stuff!

Back to the grilled lettuce, when you see someone with a 'Cah Lee fuh Nee Ah' accent and they try to pull one over on you by giving you something that we eat out here, do not believe them.

Oh, people do pay 15 dollars for one shrimp, 12 toothpick slivers of mango, two olives and a squirt of Sriracha sauce and swear that it's the best thing on the planet.

They are the ones to blame for grilled lettuce.