Smoking Meat Questions and Discussion

View attachment 171163Pleased with my first attempt with the snake method. I wrapped the coals about 2/3rds of the way around my kettle, 2 deep with 1 coal on top. I went for 4 hours and it really wanted to go at 250. Next time I’ll probably just put a coal on top for every other. I didn’t even need 70% of the coals I had set up, but they will be good to go for next time.
You cooked them to a certain temperature or timed? They look wonderful.

Football traditions.

I was at Iowa state around the time when juicy wiggle started. It started the officially 2018 season with the night game against WVU. The dance was something students in the front were already workshopping a bit but it really didn’t catch on until that night game. It was the perfect storm of atmosphere, throttling a highly rated team, and song that fit.

Football traditions.

Not sure what song you're referring to on the shoulders/grinding one, but can maybe help in varying degrees on the others.

Whoop whoop is actually named "Cowbell"... don't know if there's more of a story to origins / crowd motions but I think it just started as a drum cadence for marching band and I know it's been a thing since at least 2001. Google AI seems to indicate mid 90s origin, which seems believable, but I'd want outside verification before stating as fact.

Juicy wiggle was released in 2015 and I think got adopted fairly shortly thereafter but maybe not immediately. I might guess it became a staple 2017ish. My recollection is that I was originally aware of the song's existence from following new music as a DJ, but it had largely faded / never gained critical mass in terms of mainstream popularity before becoming a standard at football games.

"Don't know the words" is actually "Go Cyclones Go". Which I think was an original composition written for the band some decades ago... lyrics adapted/swearing added by student section at some point, and popularized to the extent that the revised version is what everyone knows it by.

Football traditions.

I very rarely post anymore (hell, I can't even remember the last time I did), and I just react like Hot Wheels does with all his "Dumbs" in the politics forum (everyone else is saying what I'm thinking so why say anything at all).

But I'm curious as to the origins of some of our traditions at football games.

Where did the grinding/moving the shoulders to the beat come from? I don't know the song's name (I know, I should), but you know exactly what I am talking about.

Where did the "Whoop Whoop" with the increasing speed of the drums come from?

And most of all, when did "Juicy Wiggle" become a thing?

Years ago, my father and I were at the game, and the then moved student section (that season) started doing the Juicy Wiggle.

I was so confused. Still am about it's origin.

I still love the "Shoulders to The Beat" (I didn't know what else to call it), and "Whoop Whoop" though.

They can never be replaced.

Yes, I know I will get some sh*t for this given my username, registration date, etc (Yes, I know I should have known the answers already), but I was never really curious until now.

Also, can someone please explain the origins of "Don't Know The Words To This Stupid F*** ing Song"?

I first heard it at the UNI game as a 26 year old student in the student section in 2013, and I got angry. Show some respect.

Apparently it's a long running joke though, so I understand.

What's streaming that's good TV/movies

Rushed home tonight to start the new Tom Hanks WWII series on History Channel. Woof. It's really bad. Should have known better, it's just the usual History Channel simplistic crap with a bunch of their usual talking head "historians'. Disappointed that Hanks debased himself to narrate this crap fest.

I guess if you're 12 years old and know absolutely nothing about WWII it would be "okay".
Good to know, I had that on my calendar but YoutubeTV doesn't have that channel, so I was trying to figure out how to watch.

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