G.A.S. (Gastronomic Appreciation Society) Barbecue is a group of folks from Kansas City in search of...well...we don't know exactly what we're looking for, but we're definitely on a quest.

Our journey began when Jeff Anderson, Jeffrey Couch, Dave Ellis, and Rick Moehring sat in Hayward's, the only place Anderson, Ellis, and Moehring had ever gone for lunchtime barbecue, eating barbecue. Couch boasted to the guys that they hadn't tasted barbecue until they'd eaten at Bates City Bar B Que. A debate followed as to where the best barbecue could be found. Anderson, Ellis, and Moehring called Couch's bluff and made him take them to Bates City.

It was during the drive back from Bates City that G.A.S. Barbecue was born. Moehring and Couch talked about a barbecue odyssey that would include all kinds of over-the-top experiences...most of which have serendipitously come to pass. Couch also thought it would be funny to call their group the Gastronomic Appreciation Society or G.A.S.

So...we, and our colleagues, convene once a month and travel to a local (meaning anywhere we can get to over an extended lunch hour) barbecue establishment in order to review it. We think it's pretty great to be doing something we're passionate about and for which we know no other group is doing, to the best of our knowledge, in the entire Universe. We're also proud of the fact that our group brings together various folks from around our campus who either don't know each other or don't normally get a chance to interact. Unfortunately, judging from their absence at subsequent restaurant jaunts, it seems they'd rather keep it that way.

You may have noticed that there is nothing fancy about this site...because as Arthur Bryant said, "You don't get fancy with barbecue. When you get fancy, you get out of line."

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