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Pop quiz: how did grilling become an American tradition? Why charcoal?
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK You don't know but I do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181676) |
Date: August 13th, 2025 12:36 PM Author: Texas School Book Suppository Charcoal is a biproduct of the auto-industry, which is why Kingsford is based out of Michigan. Backyard grilling probably became popular due to the rise of the suburbs and people having more time on the weekend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181682) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:36 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Swing and a miss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181686) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:39 PM Author: Faggottini Schechter Poultry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181693) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:40 PM Author: Upper Middle Class Dad in quarter zip golf pullove Stfu chink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181696) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:19 PM Author: Ricky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182623) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:21 PM Author: slippery socio-emotio-economic slope (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182633) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:51 PM Author: Gefilte Fish Vindaloo Why charcoal? A charcoal suit, white shirt, red or blue tie, and black Allen Edmonds Park Avenues are the classic go-tos for acing the interview and landing a coveted 2L biglaw summer associateship. It's seen as slightly more conservative (safe) than navy, which is the only other acceptable choice. However, you need to think like a lawyer here. If there's even a 0.0001% chance that your interviewer looks down on navy, why would you risk it? Would you subject a client to that type of unnecessary risk? No. At least, a good lawyer, the type of lawyer that works at a white shoe law firm, wouldn't. Save the navy and the flashy dark brown half-brogues for the 3rd or 4th week into the summer, once you've established yourself. Until then, charcoal all the way.
P.S.: For the love of God, please do not wear an expensive watch either interviewing or as an associate. Partners look down at this type of flamboyance and will wonder if they are paying you too much. Clients will react poorly to seeing a first year associate with a Submariner while they are being charged $600 or more per hour of your time. Law is a fickle beast, and you must treat it with the respect it deserves. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:27 PM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182757) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:52 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181736) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:54 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK PS charcoal was made by car companies but it's not by-product of making cars. No one burns wood in an oxygen-starved environment to make a car, lmao. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181739) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 1:02 PM Author: Texas School Book Suppository Fuck off you literal literal psycho-- that is what I meant. It came out of the auto industry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181767) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK The charcoal was made using scraps from the wood used to make car wheels. They had all this wood but it had no obvious use. You can't use charcoal in place of regular coal because it's much less dense and leaves a lot more ash.
So yes, charcoal was made from leftover wood, but it was made to generate profits.
That's entirely separate from how grilling became an American tradition. People had to own grills before there could be consumer demand for charcoal |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:18 PM Author: slippery socio-emotio-economic slope (gunneratttt) charcoal has been around for millennia you fucking retard. we've been making charcoal deliberately since pre-history because it's a convenient, relatively smokeless fuel for heating and cooking.
the automotive industry made generating charcoal cheaper because of useful byproducts. plenty of industries have byproducts that serve as useful secondary products. ever wonder why whey protein is so popular?
you're so fucking stupid and deranged it's unreal. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:51 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182683) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:55 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) We noticed what a great job it did grilling Jews. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181744) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 1:56 PM Author: Candy Ride Our heritage from the American Indians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49181964) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:52 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Not far off the mark, but nowhere close to correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182686) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:52 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Hint: it had an awful lot to do with the auto industry, but the charcoal was an afterthought. No one knew demand for charcoal would take off the way at did, lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182687) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 6:57 PM Author: grievance officer Automobiles used to be powered by charcoal-fueled steam engines. It was popular in the early 20th century to take a drive into the countryside to picnic, and cooking meats with the automobile's firebox was a convenient way to prepare hot food. When automobiles switched to use internal combustion engines, the practice continued, but with special purpose charcoal grills. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182700) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Close but you don't really get into the causality of how it became popular to take a drive into the countryside and cook food. Note that this ONLY happened in America. When English and German people got cars, they didn't think to drove into the woods and cook a bunch of raw meat.
Moreover cooking is usually a woman's job. Grilling is the only time it's considered "manly" for a man to cook, and we never expect women to do it. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:46 PM Author: Candy Ride People don't drive into the country to bbq. They do it at their house or maybe a park. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182826) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:37 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Yes but that's not how it was marketed and made popular by Henry Fucking Ford. He wanted people to buy cars, not cook in their back yards.
Also, car sales accounted for most of Ford's profits. Charcoal was never a big moneymaker for the Ford Motor Company, there was just nowhere else you could reliably find sacks of charcoal back then. Sorry xo economists. Really, I'm sorry. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:36 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK https://peteshardware.com/did-you-know-that-henry-ford-sold-barbecues-with-his-model-ts/
Ford used the grills to advertise its cars. But stores didn't carry charcoal so you had to go to the Ford dealer to re-up, and "King's Ford" was the name of a Ford dealership that sold a lot of charcoal (and Royal Oak should need no explanation). But the whole concept of "grilling" was a marketing scheme by Henry Ford, used to sell cars. That's all he was trying to do. He wasn't trying to get into the charcoal business. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:39 PM Author: Earl Dibbles Jr (πΎπ£) Spanish naval tradition around the Gulf of America, also birthed BBQ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762022&forum_id=2#49182808) |