BBQ Battle Washington DC

So we dudes on foods checked out the BBQ Battle in DC this past weekend. Never been to a BBQ competition before, so I was pretty pumped. I was expecting something similar to what you see on the Food Network competition shows - checking out all the competitors and tasting all the competition bbq. Too bad this was not the case.

What we experienced instead was lines, lines, lines. It was basically a street fair with a bunch of random vendors with huge lines. Crab cakes were great there, but I shouldn't be eating crab cakes at a bbq event. The bbq that I did get to eat was decent, but nothing mind blowing. The one bbq vendor that won multiple awards had lines that were at least 1 1/2 hours long. Still had a great time in beautiful DC hanging out with the dudes. Also, all the competition bbq looked and smelled phenomenal. Next time you go to a cooking competition, make sure the competitors will be sampling their own food...