James Ijames transforms the tragic ending of Hamlet, allowing Fat Ham to end instead with the characters eating and enjoying barbecue together, before sharing in a celebratory dance and drag performance. This change to the ending of Hamlet holds utopian potentials, and this utopia is fundamentally linked, I will argue, to the use of the Southern Black food tradition of barbecue, and the communal act of eating. The Black, queer, Southern family at the center of the story can survive and thrive, free of the tragic cycles that have dominated their lives: the cyclical narrative of Hamlet, and the cycle of generational trauma and toxic masculinity embodied by Rev and Pap. In Fat Ham, the barbecue has been corrupted by these cycles, but it is ultimately transformed by the ending. This essay links the tradition of Southern barbecue to the Black, queer utopia that emerges at the end of the play. Fat Ham reclaims a Southern food tradition from heteronormative, hypermasculine men, and, in doing so, is able to perform a Black, queer, and distinctly Southern utopia.