The Kansas City Bar-B-Q Trivia

 

Kansas City is the home of the first barbecue restaurant in the United States.  Henry Perry opened the city’s first barbecue restaurant in an old trolley barn.  ​According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Henry Perry was known as the “father of Kansas City barbecue” and dubbed the “Barbecue King.” Perry sold slow-smoked meats wrapped in newspaper for 25 cents in the Garment District in the early 1900s.  According to the Barbecue Hall of Fame, line 1 of  Perry’s death certificate, records his occupation as the “Barbecue Man.”

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