'cue redux
The bill that would have made the Lexington Barbecue Festival the official state food festival has gotten watered down.
How do you water down such a thing?
Make it the official food festival of the Triad.
"This is not any reflection on other barbecue in our state but just saying that this is the official food festival of the Piedmont North Carolina," Sen. Stan Bingham said explaining the bill to his colleagues.
Still it met resistance.
Listen to the Senate debate here.
Update: "We saw we weren't ever going to get it passed," Bingham just told me. Making it the official festival of the Triad was the only way to get it passed the Senate, he said.
No word on if the House will accept the changes or * sigh * send it to a conference committee.
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