Twenty-four hours from now, you’ll be congratulating America for another stellar year of existence. And just in case your plans are still a bit up in the air, here are five things to help ring in USA’s 236th birthday. Yes, one of them involves some ostrich.
You’ve got the whole hog. A small mountain of charcoal. All that’s needed: bags of wood chunks to properly smoke your swine. Preferably in flavors like Downeast Hickory, Wild Apple, Sugar Maple, Mountain Mesquite and Acadian Oak. You love pig that tastes like Acadia.
The problem: after your secret family recipe for BBQ sauce killed last year, Mom said that was the last time she’d give it to you (tip: start writing it down). The solution: Redbones, who has pints and quarts of their famous hot, sweet and tangy sauces standing by in Somerville.
Most days, a normal jar of pickles will do. On the Fourth, you need something a bit bigger for you and your friends. Like, say, four-gallon barrels of homemade dill and spicy pickles from pickling maestro Grillo’s in Cambridge. Should last you till at least 8pm.
You had regular burgers last Fourth. And the one before that. And every Fourth, actually. So this year, change it up. Savenor’s is selling four-packs of everything from wild boar and bison burgers to elk and even ostrich burgers. Jefferson was a known elk fan.
And if you’re celebrating from your lake house in New Hampshire, you can embrace the state’s lenient home-explosions laws with this fireworks-finale package, featuring humongous angled bursts of reds and greens. Note: if you get caught setting this off on your roof deck in Boston, we don’t know you.
