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Earning a college credit, barbecue style

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Four college boys from Alabama cut a 17-day, five-state swath across the southern United States eating barbecue pork ribs and writing about it on their website. That's earning a college credit in English from Birmingham-Southern College the hard way.    

"Our project will focus on the cultural origins, differences in style and significance of Southern pork barbecue through the framework of food and travel writing," says their website, which they claim received 125,000 views on Feb. 13 alone and was featured in 120 newspapers the following day.

The "captain" of the team, political science major Art Richey, "hopes to work in politics for a couple of years before entering law school."

He's a Democrat, so he'd better get used to pork. BP
 
 

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