I've already been told to say "They're great."

Oh please pray for me this upcoming Saturday. We've been invited over to my wife's uncle's house to celebrate Mother's Day weekend for my wife's grandmother.

Quick background. My wife's uncle is the one that laughs at the thought of "smoking" ribs or pork butt on a smoker for hours. He has told me each time he gets a chance that "I can do it in quicker time in the oven or crockpot, not spend all day and it tastes just as good or better."

Well low and behold this weekend he's conveniently doing ribs. He does his in the oven wrapped in foil then throws them on a gasser grill for the last ten minutes and baptizes them in sauce. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what's going to happen. While eveybody is eating he will (in a loud voice) single me out and ask "How do they taste? They're just as good as yours aren't they? And I don't have to sit there and spend all day doing it." Because that's how this jackazz is. Yet my wife has already instructed me to simply bite the bullet and tell him they are great and not to say anything and if he's asks if they are as good as mine just tell him yes and move on. I don't know if I can do this. :doh: I really don't. I understand not starting an argument or an awkward moment over something as silly as ribs but I hate to give this guy ANY satisfaction. Oh Brethren please pray for me this week.

It makes me mad because the guy tries to make the process of low and slow seem stupid and unnecessary. Which in turn cheapens the hard work I've put into learning how to turn out good quality Q. I don't care how someone cooks their ribs. But don't try to cheapen and make a mockery of how I do it to make yourself look good. Especially when "you" can't produce or replicate the same product.