BBQ

[LEFT]

was rummaging around for this shot for (well, a long time) because of a discussion simebody was having sumplace about something that had to do with BBQ....

It's billed as the worlds largest pit and is drug around like an 18wheeler. It's big enough for a body to stand up inside of. Me'n a few of the Bros thought it were impressive enough to pose fer a picture up next tuit.

I can't imagine anybuddy not like'n BBQ. Here in Texas, you can't travel more than a few feet without see'n or smell'n some...

ANy favorites? Best I ever had was in Memphis not long ago (may the God of Texas BBQ forgive me).

I'm like that. All about the Memphis style BBQ Ribs kiiiiinda thing.

(Blue's Cafe if yer passing through)

[LEFT]

HOOT! stumbles on this pre-haircut pic (did I really look like that!? it aint no wunder it looks like I'm sitting all by myownself!) enjoying BBQ ribs and an ice cold Shiner Boch....

[Stormcrow]

I've lived a great many places, but alas, I've never been to a "BBQ Heaven" type of place. Someday I'll try the real thing I recon.

[Copernicus]

I concur, bro - Blues City Cafe are the best I've ever had.. and I've had quite a few!

[Baldy]

Left, the people I work for, own a ranch in Texas. It's next to the one they used in the TV show Dallas. He had a caretaker/ranch foreman that made some of the best deer sausage I've ever tasted. Once every year they brought him and his family up here to do a big BBQ. They would slow smoke the briskets and sausage and then serve it with his wife's Texas style BBQ sauce on the side. (Plus all the other fixings.) They would normally, at home, use Mesquite for the wood, but up here they had to make do with Hickory, Oak and Apple.

Flat out, hands down, the damn best tasting BBQ in the world.

Unfortunately, he (the foreman) died a few years back and his son took over for a while, but he had a falling out with the family (that owns the co. that I work for) and we can't get it anymore. Damn shame.

Nothing like great Texas BBQ.

[TOAO]

I like Burrell's in Santa Ana

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THE DRUMMER'S BARBECUE
There was a time when former Stax drummer Fred Burrell had a barbecue empire going, with four county locations. Now he's back to just his original Burrell's Rib Cage, a shack on a Santa Ana residential street where you dine in the yard the way barbecue is meant to be eaten. Since 1981, Fred has been wood-grilling beef brisket, tri-tip, baby back ribs, pork ribs, hot links, ham, pork tips 'n' ends and such at this über-funky barbecue mecca. Fred hacks off cuts the animals don't even know they have. Meat's in just about everything but the sweet potato pie, which, when fresh out of the oven, can just about make you sob with contentment. But back to the meat: it's slow-cooked and melts in your mouth and mind. This isn't dry-style barbecue, either. Fred's a slatherer, swamping your banquet in a sweet dusky sauce of his own devising. It is the stuff of legend, and legends eat the stuff: the walls are crowded with photos of celebrities eating Burrell's 'cue. 305 N. Hesperian, Santa Ana, (714) 547-7441.

[LEFT]

then again...may have been the company, Cop

NAR...

brisket, yard bird and sausage is good local to me

not to say I aint up for a ride across the desert to eat like a movie star, right?

Baldy, I'm bet'n a nice heart felt note would score you some of that!

[SharBare]

Quite the lean mean fightin' machine in the first pic there, LEFT, my good lad.

Mmmm, bet the Q outa that beast was the bomb!

[TOAO]

Texas has asada & alpastor

[Copernicus]

We do BBQ down here in Florida, but not beef brisket. We eat a lot of pulled pork, chicken, ribs and wings

[LEFT]

Texas has asada & alpastor

...you know I gotta look that up, right?

[Buschman]

"was rummaging around for this shot for (well, a long time)"

You need to sort all your pics out and put them in nice labelled desktop folders.

[Baldy]

Most people in this area cook eastern NC style. Which is slow cooked on a big gas, or wood cooker and coated the last hour or two with a vinegar and pepper sauce. No sugar in it, so it won't burn. Not my favorite by any means, but I can eat it. They mostly pull, or chop it up. Most of the time, it is a half, or whole hog, though we do see a lot of the Boston butts.

Since we can't get real Texas BBQ up here, my normal favorite is large beef ribs, the ones with lots of meat, cooked med to rare, on a grill, brushed with the closest thing we can get to a real Texas sauce: Sweet Baby Ray's original, for the last few minutes and served with extra sauce on the side.


Left, as for sending him a note, the father is dead, as is the mother that used to make the sauce. The son crawled down into a bottle several years ago, ran his wife and children off, got fired and disappeared. No one I know, knows where he is now.

For a while I had a source for deer and pork mix sausage in Lafayette, La. But they quit selling it a couple of years ago.

[LEFT]

bummer about all that

(think Johny Cash)

....you've been every where, ainthcha!?

[Baldy]

Nope, not yet. But I have been through most of the South. :bigsmile:

[Copernicus]

Wellllllll, more than 22 years ago, a certain two people on their honeymoon decided to rent a jeep on Maui and drive the road to Hana. They got totally stoned in their condo before the trip started out early morning, and began the drive, when we realized there wasn't going to be anyplace to eat for awhile.

There was one small "town" a few hours into the ride, that had a sign as "last stop" kinda thing, so we stopped in there to eat up. They had some really good barbecue ribs.. and Boo has a shot of me, dark sunglasses on, stoned, with damned barbecue sauce all over my face.. I was feeding the munchies, I guess, LOL. I was very skinny back then, too. Pic is funny, if I can ever find it, I'll scan it for ya!

[LEFT]

HOOT! (we were ALL very skinny back then!)

I hope you can find it.

[Buschman]

Cop was skinney once? Naw,..I am not buying that...LOl

[Baldy]

I was skinny once, had hair then also.

[Copernicus]

What HE said.. although, I started losing my hair when I was 18

[Baldy]

Started losing mine at 16.

[LEFT]

I still have hair AND I'LL BE SKINNY AGAIN!

well, proberly not...but there are these magic pills that you take before sleep and it turn dripping saturated fat into lean muscle...no really...says so right on the bottle...

[ozzman62]

Mr . Left...I have a nice BBQ , But Damn , That is a Grill to be reckoned with .


(Gotta build me one ) Before I pass .

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