HIGH PERFORMANCE GRILLING

Now, Them's Sum Good Eatin'

We like this thought by Edward Abbey — the American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and who writer Larry McMurtry referred to as the “Thoreau of the American West — who in a moment of candor admitted: “Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.”

To that end, we recently stumbled across (who would have thunk it) several entrepreneurs who were struck by the similarity of their favorite automobile and their favorite cooking appliance.

The first series of photos are images we enhanced after receiving them from a forward-of-a-forward-of-a forward email. (We’d love to give credit if you recognize the guy who built them, yeah, that’s right, it was a guy; no woman loves to eat this much!)

The blue barbecues are from MuscleCarBBQGrills.com. But potential buyer beware, there are quite a few postings on other sites who have shown this product who have plunked a couple of grand on one of these barbecues and are still waiting for delivery with no one answering their inquiries.

If you really just gotta have one of these, consider this unit from FabGrills.com:

So there you have it. A barbecue that looks like the engine of your favorite car. Is this a great company or what?

MANTIS: Next up, maybe we’ll combine food and women instead of food and motors. Then maybe women and motors. In the meantime, send us your photos that exemplify the Rodz Lifestyle.