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  1. At 2" thick, they're impressive, particularly if you haven't had one before. I'm looking forward to this.
  2. I keep laughing thinking that's under $20 worth of meat. I can't believe I haven't done these before.
  3. My WSM hasn't gotten much love since I got my offset, apart from being the Thanksgiving workhorse. That changes today. I'm having a first go at pork steaks. Running with no water pan for a direct fire cook with the DigiQ to hold it at 250F. Wish me luck.
  4. Got to try J-Bud's in Tyler today. Not elite to the extent most Surly BBQ aficionados would bang. But pretty solid nonetheless. Lots of samples given out too. So I can attest to the fact that the turkey is tasty and the green beans in "brisket gravy" slam. Corn elote was good as well. They had beef ribs on offering today, but contrary to what you may have read about me above, I opted not to partake.
  5. Look, it was hot and I was hungry. But the fact of the matter was that despite driving through Taylor regularly for the last 20+ years, I'd never been to LM. So I definitely was ordering a beef rib and wanted to try the rest of tray so to speak. I didn't finish it and pick my teeth with the bone though. About two-thirds of it made its way to Wurstfest with me and ended up going home with my always-hungry, college-aged son, who probably consumed the remaining meat in one, duck-like gulp.
  6. East TX Rust BBQ in Gilmer appears to be doing it right. It's a bit of a drive, but not too bad. I'll probably give it a try at some point. Brisket Love in Lindale is decent. There's also a new-ish food truck in Tyler called J-Budd's that I've been meaning to try. It's been a bit sporadic in its open hours to date, but I think it's recently opened Monday--Saturday. He does a brisket gumbo that looks pretty solid.
  7. Skip it. Go to Stanley's and Sunbird. Sorry, @TXSooner518. Or go. I mean, it's a rib joint. It's a'ight. So, Y'all's BBQ. It's a little shack near a house off of 31E near Tyler. A really friendly African-American family owns it. The sides are made from whatever is fresh in their backyard-garden. Homemade desserts. I think I paid $7 for a brisket-loaded baked potato and some sausage. I ate it over three days. So, yeah. This place fucks. I suck and never have eaten at Pat Gee's. But Nick Pencis, who has owned Stanley's since 2004, used to be in a funk band called Greyhounds (an Austin band now). They released an album while they all were living in Tyler in the early 2000s, and one of the songs on the album was about Pat Gee's. Nick was one of the first few people I met when I moved to Tyler. I remember Stanley's when they first built the deck (no roof). I used to get calls to help supply mics and mic stands when they'd try to have live music in the early days. This is my older son. He ended up working for Stanley's for two years when he was in high school. His first concert and past his bedtime.
  8. Hell, after I left, I took a wrong turn on the way to Wurstfest trying to go the back way and avoid the UT game traffic by taking back roads and ended up in Lockhart. I was like, I fucking can't. Because I was a big, fat fuck gearing up for Wurstfest with my college freshman and his roommate. But, shit, I figured I'd at least get some sausage at Smitty's. And I paid $33 for a 9.89/10 plate at Stile's Switch a couple of months later. At some point, nostalgia gives way to value-for-money. I get that. But lay off Tootsie.
  9. Louie Mueller BBQ and Country Tavern are similar: old joints that kept doing things the same and have kept things on pretty well. And, as an aside, I know they're proud of those rib$$$, and I know you like that place, but I've never been much of a fan. But, I'm still kind of glad places like it, Y'all's BBQ, and Pat Gee's are out there in this area and still surviving in the era of level-up BBQ, of which Stanley's and Sunbird are the local torch-bearers with a few pretty decent places up north of I20 nobody really knows about outside of the area. /edit: Really like what Sunbird is doing. I ate Bryan's BBQ at Bodacious before he left. I went by the trailer when it was in White Oak. Unfortunately, I had to take it to go and while I remember its being good, BBQ never is as good after 30 minutes in the car in a Styrofoam container. I need to just make the short drive at this point. I'm so lazy.
  10. Usually, I don't order a beef rib anywhere unless I'm sharing a tray, which had I not been solo would have worked better in my probably ordering more brisket. So it evens out, I guess. Order: 1 beef rib, 1/2 lb fatty brisket, 1/4 lb sausage, potato salad, unsweet tea. Like $108. The 1/2 lb of brisket was one thick-cut, sad-looking thing. Signed, Fat ass
  11. I have a friend who's a big weed/hemp lawyer based in Austin, who has, no doubt, been knee-deep in trying to fight this off for years now. The last session, I messaged her and asked about it all, including the "what if" question. She was like, "We're fighting it tooth and nail, but worst cast scenario, there's always the internet." So, there's that.
  12. Look, if this is between a drip machine and an espresso machine, then it doesn't really sound like you want top of the line either way because the either/or question seems like it pulls the matter to the center of the cost scale. As mentioned above, I have that rice-cooker Z-brand of drip machine I mentioned above. It's good for drip, has a mechanical mild/bold lever, and is super easy to program. If it lasts, it'll be good ($129). If you don't care about the lever, get the old 12-cup Cuisinart. Ours lasted 24 years. For inexpensive super-automatic, we're 15 years and counting on the Gaggia Brera. It's not the best, but it's very good and doesn't require effort when all you want is coffee.
  13. I've mentioned this before, but for posterity's sake, I ate there last November. The beef rib was very good, but I don't know that it lived up to the hype (and LaBBQ's was far better). The brisket was the most disappointingly bland thing I've eaten in a while. No bark. Flavor seemed pretty meh, too. It was tender. I mean, just do what you do to the beef rib. It would be fine. The sausage was pretty old school meat market, which is nostalgic, but not particularly delicious. I dropped over $100 for lunch on that with 1 side. For the sake of the old joints hanging in there, I'm okay with Top 50 because we're spoiled with BBQ in Texas and it's all relatively good in the known places. But if they'd dropped to honorable mention, I would have understood why. Still, I hope they're open for another hundred years.
  14. Sorry to neg you (I'll balance it out somewhere). But that was the only appropriate reaction. IYKYK
  15. Willie Nelson Patsy Cline Waylon Jennings Johnny Cash Jerry Reed (outside pick because while it's not a classically great country voice, I sure do like it . . . son). *Honorable Mention: Johnny Lee and Sturgil Simpson
  16. Add good, freshly (locally) roasted beans to this equation, and it's almost impossible to screw it up with a reasonably-good, semi-automatic machine.
  17. How I imagine it started with Elmo and Katie:
  18. Mine give me woefully when I use the hand with which I'm petting them to reach for my coffee cup.
  19. My bingo card looks like a damned Mad-Lib. Everything hits, and I keep losing. /USA
  20. So fast-forward many years. I'm having a get-together for my birthday at a brewery. We'd invited my friend and his family, but they were out of town. About halfway through the gathering, the band takes the stage, and it's the music teacher's band. I felt bad for her because a large portion of the audience consisted of people we'd known from our kids' elementary school and the situation was not a well-kept secret by anyone at the time. I recall being very thankful my friend and his family hadn't been able to attend. She came up and said hello at the end of the night, acknowledged the awkwardness, and had a piece of cake. Note to self: Check the live music bill next year to see which band is playing.
  21. Welp, I got four good years out of my Pixel 5, but the battery is self-destructing and pushing the screen off the body. Pixel 9 on the way. Hopefully, it gets here before the 5 explodes in my hand Sent from my rocking time bomb
  22. C'mon, Gus. Your family (and your Surly Family) needs you!
  23. And now I want to go eat at Stanley's and drink Shiner. Weird. Honestly, I just heard about that East TX Rust place in Gilmer last week, and really would like to try it since it made the Honorable-Mention list, but it's in Gilmer.
  24. Church of Brisket, right there.
  25. 88--early 90 is my favorite era of obtainable, vintage, Fender guitars.
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