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>Dry / wet rubs, spice mixes, smokers, steamers, woods, charcoals -- whatever; the geography doesn't magically make a pit in the ground to roast or smoke meat over suddenly uniquely differential to the others.
>In a world where you can get any meat you want delivered to your door, any wood you want delivered to your door, any charcoal, cooking utensils, spice mixes, rubs, marinades delivered to your door etc., arguments about barbecue seem silly and small.
This is objectively untrue.
Some meat cuts are harder to acquire in some countries.
Some types of wood are unique to a particular region, so again harder to acquire.
Some styles of BBQ require special utensils and grills that are also uncommon.
Some spices and marinades are difficult to get right, and again some ingredients are hard to source.
Finally, local expertise is sometimes required, it's not just a matter of looking at a YouTube video.
Yes, hypothetically, you can spend an insane amount of money and get everything you need exactly right but in practice most places that imitate foreign food will just replace certain cuts/ingredients/wood/utensils with whatever is easily available because they are running a business, not a charity.
And then it stops being an authentic experience.
Same deal with Tex-Mex vs Mexican food.
Or any other place that seeks to emulate a foreign food.
Just because you *can* get an authentic Texas BBQ experience in Dubai doesn't mean you should.
Most likely it will not be authentic in some way or another.
Or it will be ridiculously expensive the more authentic it gets.
