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Texzilla58

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  1. My grandmother would buy hog lights for about a six cents a pound. If you don’t know what lights are you’re missing out. Lungs. Pig lungs. Awful.
  2. Some actors get typecast from a single role. Roundtree got tabbed with a riff for his career. Most folks couldn’t set him or his name without the guitar lead from Shaft coming in their head. I knew David Porter in Memphis, and met his Stax writing partner a couple times. Isaac was in his Black Moses persona at the time. Before he became Chef.
  3. The thread is about old fashioned hamburger stands. Ain’t no fucking brioche in any of them.
  4. According to Jerry, Dak is the greatest qb he’s ever had in every element. So he’ll give Dak a huger contract and Parsons will be the highest paid d player in history. The rest of the tess as m will divy up the remains $2.8m in cap room. I would trade Parsons right now for big draft picks.
  5. We know folks like you. Sugar in the bbq sauce kind of folks. Even the French don’t eat a fucking hamburger with fucking brioche. No one knew what brioche was a couple years ago. Now WalMart has a all kinds of brioche shit. Brioche flavored shave cream next to the pumpkin spice.
  6. My wife was a realtor in Portland and got a call about a problem house. This was back before the internets when you had to go inside to eyeball a place. She asked me to go to help measure and photo the place. It looked like that trophy room but it was the whole house was filled with dead animals from around the world. Hundreds of them. Elephant leg tables. Every big cat. Bears. It had been on the market two years and had flipped thru some big name house sellers. The owner was a bachelor dude in his late 50’s. The house was a very cool early 60’s ultra modern custom that was stunning but for all these dead animals and that he was a heavy cigar smoker. She asked him “why do you think the house hasn’t sold?” He started yammering about the polarizing design of the house, the small kitchen, the small closets. She said you need to get every one of these damn animals out of here for one. Then paint and rip the carpet up. He said he wasn’t going to change a thing. We left.
  7. Jub exemplifies a face made for radio. His head appears to still be grown if like the elephant man. Jr’s wife is pretty stylish and fashionable and could have made sure he didn’t wear his Towncraft Suit Separates from 1989. I think those are pleather shoes. Or even Corfam, a shoe material I believe made in the 60’s by DuPont to cover the Apollo command module.
  8. Baileys is a unknown gem in downtown about as old school as you can get. We’d eat there occassionally. That beer at Angelo’s might have been the coldest beer on earth in those double frosted glasses. Ate there about once a week for years. A regular spot for taking out of town business visitors.
  9. My opinion should have no bearing on what you eat. That sounds like a great sandwich with the exception of the Mac, which I don’t like on any burger or sandwich. my issue would be with brioche maintaining structural integrity.
  10. I worked in restaurants in high school and college and figured out quickly that while I loved cooking and food, there was nothing about being a chef I wanted to do. Is like anything else. Folks say do something you love and you’ll never work a job. Bullshit. Lots of scratch golfers out there; few can get on a tee and hit the ball in front of a gallery. I was in the music business in Memphis; met tons of great musicians who either couldnt deal with a band or couldn’t get on stage or couldn’t entertain. And folks have a couple of dinner parties and get told, “you should open a restaurant!” A year later they have lost their house and are bankrupt. It’s why I have such respect for a pitmaster that can make something as different as a brisket perfect and the same across 20 of them a day. I don’t know how they do it. But that extraordinary craft doesn’t translate into business expertise.
  11. Horns 27 Weird underwear. 16
  12. It’s not just bbq. Most new restaurants are failures because they are opened by morons with a lack of experience and equal lack of capital.
  13. Uhh I’m not going with the most awarded cast but one I can’t imagine with others in it. Besides Dazed and Confused, I’m going with American Graffiti The Quiet Man Bullitt
  14. I agree with the exception of Diane Keaton. I find her annoying and a stiff actress. She doesn’t seem to meld with the cast at all. Unpopular opinion I know. The rest is perfection
  15. I’d add that there is a difference between knowing how to run a restaurant business, and how to run a barbecue restaurant business. There is a reason old timey barbecue was basically built around butchers selling meat scraps, that was basically a little extra profit to help pay for fuel and labor. Regardless of how much revenue these joints bring in with $35/lb brisket and $6 sides, their margins suck balls because of high food costs, waste, labor, fuel. Add the stupidity of moving from a cheap trailer or shack to fancy real estate, a couple of bad days can flip your month into the red fast. Pecan Lodge was so good in the Farmers Market. The move to Derp Ellen has killed quality. I don’t know how they survive. Hurtado and Heim both seem hell bent on pushing their enterprises over the edge with new locations and expanded hours. Can Dayne’s support the move to Brix. Will Sunbird make it in bricks. There was a reason bbq was often a shack on the wrong side of town with a pit, a Coke box, and a rack of chips. Because they didn’t make much money. You want to make money sell breakfast (eggs and hotcakes).
  16. Like a lot of old men having their first kid, they are insufferable. Yeah Jr, we dealt with diapers in our 20’s. In the meantime post some nekkid pics of your hot wife.
  17. Like I said I didn’t choose to go and wasn’t paying. The place was packed. It boggles the mind sometimes. It’s like seeing a full parking lot at Dickeys in bbq rich Ft Worth.
  18. I think we have a bbq bubble about to bust out. Cracks are starting to show. The Valentina’s situation I think is common. Have successful trailer, get the big head from Daniel Vaughn and the food media, get some investors and take on a massive bricks operation, and the lines go away. They also didn’t move down the street but down the road and I imagine didn’t budget shit for marketing and thinking their fanatic customer base would follow them anywhere. Nope. Hurtado was shut down a few weeks ago by Ft Worth Health inspectors. Fucking arrogance in thinking you’re a big time operator, and can make a go in a proven shit location that ran Derek Allen out of the industry. Ft Worth area is oversaturated with great bbq joints. With inflation hitting so many they have to be seeing a slowdown
  19. Sounds like you’re overcooking them then peeling. I usually torch them or put on direct flame to chat the skin, put in the paper bag to steam a minute or two. They can still get fragile. I have that Matt’s cookbook and it has lots of great recipes and stories. I also really like Grady Spears chicken chile relleno from Reata. If I get really fragile chiles I say fuck it and just lay em out and make a casserole.
  20. These three are either stupid, or complicit in fucking their people. Sounds like their whole operation is a bust out after using it as a money laundering operation.
  21. The biggest issue with mushroom sauce: fucking mushrooms.
  22. Brioche sucks ass for any kind of burger. It’s crumbly and usually falls apart a quarter way into it. And it’s sweet. Just use pound cake or two slices of Texas sheet cake if that’s what you want.
  23. For the same money buy the fancy stadium tour. It’s way better than a game.
  24. How old is he? Why introduce him to the disappointments in life that goes with being a Cowboys fan?
  25. How old is he? Why introduce him to the disappointments in life that goes with being a Cowboys fan?
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