Barbecue is the thing a Kansas City table has to survive, and sauce is what decides between paper and plastic. A plastic sheet takes a smear of sauce and wipes clean; paper holds it, darkens and tears when anyone tries. Three sheets to a pack means the cooking table can be stripped and re-covered halfway through the afternoon.
Fifty-four by one hundred and two inches fits the folding table most lots run, with enough drop at the sides to hide the legs and the bags stashed under them. Red is easy to find in plain stock, so the printed sheet is the piece that makes a table Kansas City rather than generic red.
On the table
- 54" x 102", three sheets per pack, for a standard folding table.
- Sauce wipes off plastic; paper holds it and tears.
- Strip and re-cover the cooking table halfway through the day.
- Plain red is easy to buy; the print is what names the team.
