Huskies vs. Rock Chalk BBQ Sauce
Tonight when the Huskies play the Kansas Jayhawks in Kansas City, it will mark the first time they have taken the court against a defending National Champion since February 5, 1998, when they lost 112-81 to Arizona.
That UDub team went on to the Sweet 16.
This past year, the Mariners went 3-6 against the Red Sox, and the Seahawks got smashed by the Giants 44-6. In September the Husky football team lost to possible BCS Champion Oklahoma, and probably would have lost to defending state champion Lewis and Clark High School.
The Blazers play the Celtics for the first time on December 5.
As pointed out to us by Sports NW Seth via Bob Condotta's Times Husky blog, upon their arrival in Kansas City the Huskies ate BBQ at Arthur Bryant’s.
We went there in May, and the food was as good as the Husky Football team is bad. Our group got one of everything on the menu, which came with a loaf of wonder bread for soaking up the sauces, and the grease that started sweating out of our pours.
We ramble about the history and post pictures of Arthur Bryant’s after the jump.
Kansas City BBQ probably started in 1908 when Henry Perry, who never got over the fact that his name looked like it should rhyme but didn't, started selling slow-cooked ribs around the intersection of 18th and Vine.
In the 1920s and 1930s Kansas City Mayor Tom "Wide Open" Prendergast (a nickname his family is still trying to erase through legal means) did not care about a lot about things like laws; consequently clubs in the area had no regulations and were able to stay open later, which gave birth to the Kansas City jazz scene, and musicians Charlie Parker and Count Basie.
This led to a ton of people in the area late at night, which means if you’re selling food there, you’re going to make money.
As Perry’s business grew, his employee Charlie Bryant took over and increased it even more. Eventually Charlie’s brother Arthur took over the shop in the mid-1940s.
Today Arthur Bryant's is the city's signature BBQ restaurant in a city teaming with sauce.
Their sauces are so common that the airport stores even have a large selection of three-ounce bottles for those going the carry-on route, or who are just bad at shoplifting.
Also Kansas City has a kick-ass art museum.
