ABT Origin?

[Greendriver]

o.k. before you say anything, I did just do a good search of 3 pages of ABT threads and did not find how this ABT thing got started. Anyone know? Got my curiousity up doing a batch over the weekend and I prep a little different so as to leave the stem for a handle as you can see in the pics. I make a little bombay hatch door in em and this time I was using Corned Beef for the meat so I decided to use the slices to wrap the cream cheese up with and stick all that in the door. They were too d a m hot initially and we put em in fridge and cooked them again in the oven and lo n behold they were just right the 2nd time.

 

[bigabyte]

The first time I had these was back in the 70's. I was a kid, and my parents made some on the kettle grill, using indirect heat. This is still how I prefer to make them today, offset on the grill instead of the smoker. They just called them "stuffed peppers" though. The first ones we tried did not have bacon, but future ones did.

We were not the first to hear of them though. Some friends of theirs from Dallas gave them the idea, and they said they ate them quite a bit down there.

I first heard the name "ABT - Atomic Buffalo Turds" roughly 8 or 9 years ago when I first discovered online BBQ forums (this is not my first forum, but it's the only one I seem to hang out at any more). I don't know who came up with the name ABT though.