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  1. 20 hours ago, C-Man said:


    I feel Pecan Lodge dropped off substantially when it added all the additional dinner hours. It was still lunch-only when it opened in Deep Ellum IIRC. I don’t think Justin and Diane are ever there anymore. The consistency just isn’t there. I’m going with a couple bbq committee members on Monday after our meeting with the Fair Park operators — thinking of having our 2022 Cook-Off/Concert down there — and I’ll report back. It was TM Top 10 four years ago and not even Top 50 in 2021. That says a LOT.

    The best in DFW that I’ve been to: Cattleack, Goldee’s, Panther City, Terry Black’s and Hutchins. I’m going to Hurtado next week. I feel Slow Bone is just behind this top group. Pecan Lodge is behind them all. I wanted to love Heim because the Mockingbird location is right near my house but it’s just not great. Burgers and sausage are terrific. The rest isn’t. I think Heim is more about making money at this point and I don’t have a problem with that.

    Curious to hear your report back on PL.

    I was touting Hutchins years ago before it was popular but havent been in almost 2 years at this point. Cattleack is amazing, but as I said, I just don't have the patience for that type of cluster anymore in my old age. Time is money.

    What is up with Lockhart Smokehouse (Bishop Arts or E. Plano)? Do they still exist? The best Dallas BBQ I ever had was at Lockhart Smokehouse sometime around...2012 maybe 2013, at the Bishop Arts location. They are never ranked or discussed or anything.

    For many years the Plano location was a solid business lunch spot that was fantastic and more than a few steps above Hard Eight/Ten50 which is where most of these wahoo consultants who went to like A&M and Baylor and out of state, thought was good bbq.

  2. 2 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    Oh and they'll do it while claiming they don't like cuss words.  My question for awhile has been, if you say Shoot instead of Shit or Frig instead of Fuck, but we all know that you wanted to say shit or fuck, are you really avoiding cussing?  No.  The answer is no.  Your silly word replacement doesn't change the intent of your speech, and therefore you are still cussing.  Jesus cares about your intent, motherfuckers, so get ready to be judged!

    I think it does change it just by virtue of being less vulgar. 

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  3. 7 minutes ago, YChang said:

    You’re not that obtuse… clearly you can tell he’s trying to put on a positive spin. Come on Donkey. 

    My comment was speaking to the lack of respect (i.e. insulting our intelligence) that he gives instead of speaking frankly with some candor. Someone up thread made the comment of it being like Coachspeak or press conference nonsense and I agree. We hate being condescended to by coaches because we have eyeballs and brains and this is the same thing, the coach of the USA is saying "Our loss had nothing to do with our lack of offense or inability to move the ball, but I don't know what it was, I'll need to look at the game film". Biden is basically Jason Garrett.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    as much as this endgame makes sense, it will never happen barring a total collapse and rebuild and i don't know exactly what that looks like or how it happens.  also the gop would somehow have to "go along to get along" and that will never ever happen.

    the reason the gop works is because they have a unified mission - nothing.  they are obstructionists.  they decided that the country was done evolving sometime in the late 1950's, and pretty much everything they do is in aid of that. 

    people who say "the country is moving right" say that not because entire chunks of the population's views are changing. they say it because the people who are already on the right are moving further right.  race, religion, women's rights, voting, whatever you choose - it's regression politics and the goal is inefficiency. 

    gop claims to want smaller govt/less govt control.  you do this by convincing the public that the govt is bloated, slow-moving, and inefficient.  you prove this out by (1) obstructing progress trying to be made by dems in office (see what's happening currently with 2 bills that poll extremely with americans) and (2) by doing nothing when you're in office. 

    then you can turn to the voters and say, "see, i told you."

    It's a story as old as time; Democratic-Republicans versus Federalists, etc.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I've never been to Pecan Lodge, but after seeing them featured on one of those national cooking channels, I had no desire to even make the effort.  It just screamed "we're gonna reinvent the wheel and you're gonna love it".

    I've eaten PL since it was at the Farmer's Market and over all these years I've never experienced the decline that has become codified in BBQ critic narratives. Maybe I've just gotten lucky and gone on lucky days or maybe it's like fashion and will be fashionable again on a cycle in a few years when it's trendy, but Terry Black's brisket is noticeably sweeter (less smokey) and the sweet pepper bark of ribs is trying too hard and the sausage has no hint of crumble/course ground and the greasy snap of the casing. That's quintessential sausage to me (Lockhart-style) and it's non-negotiable for my standards that a BBQ spot excel at brisket and sausage as 1a and 1b.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    Complete opposite experience for me. As is the case with apparently all the TM folks, given they dropped PL out of the top 50 and put TB in there. And pretty much everyone else I've heard weigh in on the topic.

    yea, I don't know man. Had a BBQ snob friend from out of town have the exact same experience as me (opposite of you) over TX/OU weekend as well.

  7. 8 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

     

    No doubt. The problem with the democrats is the very dynamic of their voter base. They’re a cross section of corporate whores that are smart enough to avoid the insanity of the GOP, feminists, LBGT rights activists, environmentalists, people who loathe the military industrial complex, so on and so forth. That’s too big of a tent for a major party to function.

    This has been my diagnosis/hypothesis for the past year. Way too many personalities and interests to align on a fuzzy consensus versus just general platitudes (e.g. CHANGE or HOPE or Not DJT).

    I look at foreign country politics and think that is the future. Many, disparate parties that alone cannot carry a majority or a win, but must work together to create coalitions and deals (which are fluid/dynamic) in order to build a majority. It fosters cooperation, deal-making, give-to-get, etc. and punishes inertia and stone-walling because if you don't move to make a deal perhaps a coalition of your competitors are.

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  8. Joe Biden quoted on CNN saying "I don't think the results in the elections last night had anything to do with what I'm doing or not doing". wow. Is he really that oblivious or a liar now?

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  9. 41 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Terry Black's in Deep Ellum is great, much better than Pecan Lodge nowadays. And the line is nothing. Yes, went to Slow Bone the week the new Top 50 came out and it was very, very good.

    I disagree; went a few days ago before a Mavs game-- regretted it because it was average at best. Regretted not going up the street to Pecan Lodge where I've never had a subpar meal (the last one a month ago or so which was way better). I agree with @Stunns38 on this one.

    Brisket PL>>TB

    Sausage PL>>>>>>TB

    Pork Ribs PL>TB

    Sides - who cares, but I would say a push

    The one positive thing about TB's is it is always pretty sparsely populated and kinda dead, so lines seems short. 

    I want to try Slow Bone and don't have the patience for Cattle Ack anymore. 

     

  10. 1 hour ago, Poe It Up said:

    Last night was really bad news for Trump. Republicans flipped Virginia because they kept him at arms length. There’s now a clear path for them to regain control, he’s toast. 

    "Trump being off twitter was a help because people forgot what his behavior was like and it was a detriment to democrats, because they had no fodder to stir fear and doubt"

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  11. 8 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Who is saying that? Who is currently an office holder or candidate and making that argument? Please be specific here, or at least give a REAL and concrete example. 

    My point is that y'all are voting based on your feels, and not based on actual policy outcome or actual reality of an issue. 

    It sounds to me like y'all are just getting an amplified and dishonest representation of those grievances. That is of course, unless you can give me a less aggy answer than "it's just a feeling, I can't point to any specific thing"

    I think CNN said something interesting, "The problem with Democrats is they made this about Trump and Trump was not on the ballot. And this was the canary in the coal mine"

    It sounds like this was a good wake up call, potentially, to pivot the message as Dems have wrung all the mileage out of the political position of alternative candidacy e.g. "anyone but Trump" or "anything is better than trump so vote for me".

    Obviously the calculus changes in 2024 if Trump the man actually runs, but this might be an "a-ha!" for mid terms in 2022....you actually have to do/say something in 2022 instead of just be a warm bodied alternative to overt and obvious Trumpism.

    CNN: "Democrats kept Trump at the center of their campaign and lost; Republicans kept him at arms length and won"

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  12. 13 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    You're wanting me to agree with and accept your straw man CRT fears. None of your concerns are founded in reality, and when we talk about specifics and not general feelings and rhetoric it's consistently boiled down to "well I didn't know about Emmit Till!" or some other fundamental lack of knowledge on your part. Or conversely, your fears and concerns are NOT what CRT is about, and your fabrication of an alternate set of facts preempts any possible discussion.

    It's just pure fucking propoganda. Should we start talking about how the nazis really weren't all that bad and the Holocaust didn't actually happen, like Texas school districts are starting to under new laws? Where does the rejection of reality end?

    Okay. I'm just saying you'd do good to read what Longhornmatt said because in my opinion he very eloquently and pithily nailed the CRT issue as a political issue, which is what your question was in your post.

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  13. 6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Is CRT just the new """economic anxiety"""? Because donk doesn't understand what it is by his own admission, but he and others like him sure do have some strong opinions on it. 

    Longhornmatt explained it better than I ever could, read this again, slowly:

    Everyone focus groups attack messages, and if you don’t understand how lots of people can be troubled in good faith by things like CRT without ascribing it to ignorance or dirty tricks then you’re as much in your bubble as the guy applauding Tucker Carlson every night.  

    And I’ll preemptively suggest that saying, “Well, actually CRT in its academic form is defined as ______, so you and anyone else using it to describe what actually is happening in practice instead of what it’s supposed to mean must be a stupid racist rube” is not a great counter and campaign slogan.

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  14. 4 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Trumpkins and the GQP are batshit crazy and bad at governing, and their craziness and incompetence got people riled up when they were in charge.  

    The Woke Brigade, however, is also batshit crazy and bad at governing, and now their craziness and incompetence are getting people riled up since they are in charge.  

    Yes, I just made a “both sides” post.   But it doesn’t take a sinister plot to make Americans pissed off at the people in charge.  Everyone focus groups attack messages, and if you don’t understand how lots of people can be troubled in good faith by things like CRT without ascribing it to ignorance or dirty tricks then you’re as much in your bubble as the guy applauding Tucker Carlson every night.  

    And I’ll preemptively suggest that saying, “Well, actually CRT in its academic form is defined as ______, so you and anyone else using it to describe what actually is happening in practice instead of what it’s supposed to mean must be a stupid racist rube” is not a great counter and campaign slogan.

    This guy is going places.

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