The organizers of Meat Week know what you are thinking. Eight straight days
of eating barbecue? Could this be real? Yes, yes it is.
“We know it is stupid,” said Derek Atkinson, the organizer of the New York City
chapter of Meat Week. “It’s eight nights of barbecue. It’s unhealthy – it’s
horrible for you. But it’s delicious. But it’s about getting together with your
friends and eating the hell out some smoked meat – and sometimes potato salad.”
Meat Week was conceived by two bored coworkers in Tallahassee, Fla. Back in
2005, Erni Walker and Chris Cantey were using a word generator on Cantey’s Web
site that came up with the “holy combination” of “meat” and “week.”
“From the day we sat down and wrote ‘Meat Week’ in our planners, that was the
day we decided to do this weird thing, and we decided that every year for the
rest of our lives we’d do Meat Week now,” said Walker, who now works with Cantey
for a production company in Los Angeles.
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