This week on a new episode of Barbecue Intervention…

I’m worried that the term “barbecue” is being applied too loosely. That the word is being cheapened in some way. And since this city can’t trademark the word barbecue, I think we have to go in an even more powerful direction — reality television.

Barbecue Intervention would be a weekly hour-long program in which we send a local pitmaster to another city in order to help people understand what they’re eating isn’t really barbecue. We’ll shoot the pilot in Hawaii, where Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que will be opening shortly.