Chris Lilly of Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Alabama, is competing at Barbecue Fest. He’s also working the rounds as the official pitmaster of Kingsford Charcoal.
Chris is a renowned barbecuer — a cookbook author, two-time Barbecue Fest Grand Champion, a contestant on Food Network’s Best in Smoke.
So I ask him about selling out to Kingsford. He politely laughs at my very rude joke and notes he’d been using Kingsford since he started barbecuing, years before the company approached him.