“There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
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“I normally have them cooked on the barbecue, but I enjoy onions!”
Prime Minister Tony Abbott pictured biting into an onion ... again http://www.smh.com.au/national/prime-minister-tony-abbott-pictured-biting-into-an-onion--again-20150812-gixsju.html, August 12, 2015.
2015

“You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?”
Source: Lullaby

“We have just lost the South for a generation.”
I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come. Very widely quoted as an aside to an aide, upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
For example, in a speech by Barack Obama at the LBJ Presidential Library https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/remarks-president-lbj-presidential-library-civil-rights-summit in 2014. But no report cites anyone who heard (or claims to have heard) LBJ say this, and the earliest attribution is 25 years after the fact. See "We have lost the South for a generation": What Lyndon Johnson said, or would have said if only he had said it https://capitalresearch.org/article/we-have-lost-the-south-for-a-generation-what-lyndon-johnson-said-or-would-have-said-if-only-he-had-said-it/.
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Lyndon B. Johnson / Misattributed
1960s, Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)

“The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker than Amanda's twat is Carolina barbecue.”
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 11

"Mike Ness: 'Meat's Not Green'", video interview with peta2 (28 April 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dg73SRrNjA.