With so much barbecue fluff on television these days, it was nice to see a serious discussion of smoked meat on . . . The Simpsons? The writers obviously did their homework for last night’s episode.

In a classic The Simpsons episode, Lisa the Vegetarian (season 7, episode 5 ), Homer invites a number of his friends over for a huge BBBQ (the extra B is for BYOBB), much to the disgust of Lisa who ...