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Great barbecue exists in Brooklyn. I’m not alone in the opinion that Hometown Bar-B-Que is destination-worthy. Pig Beach’s sweet-glazed ribs are some of the best in their genre, and Izzy’s Smokehouse is an undeniably ground-breaking Kosher barbecue joint. But it doesn’t matter, at least not to Twitter. In the case of Brooklyn BBQ versus the world this past weekend, the only things that registered to a meme-wielding public were an unimpressive brisket photo and an intentionally misleading headline on a four year-old story. “Why is Brooklyn Barbecue Taking Over the World?” was the headline tweeted from Munchies around lunchtime on Sunday. “It isn’t, and it never will,” seems to sum up the collective outcry of the 10,000 comments (so far) on the tweet. A North…
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