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Brisketexan

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  1. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm a bit surprised that McCallum actually scored higher than those other three high schools.  My kids loved the place, but I figured Anderson (at least) would be #2 in AISD behind LASA.

    Poorly kept secret: Anderson is a bit of a shitshow.

  2. 55 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Karoline, Brisket ordering lunch at P.F. Chang's doesn't count as "staff" negotiations.  

    FUCK YOU.  I don't eat that PF Changs shit.  I go to real-deal chinese joints.  The kinda places you can get chicken feet and stewed tripe and legit dumplings.

    In other words, I am 1,000 times more qualified -- and more likely to be successful -- in any trade negotiations with China than any fucking member of this current clownshow admin would be.

    We just keep repeatedly shooting ourselves in the dick, slapping another magazine in the gun when we burn through the previous mag, and begging China out loud "won't you stop me from doing this?"  China's response...

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  3. Also, a study in contrasts, or alternatively titled: a study of the duality of Brisketexan.

    Yesterday was my birthday.  I celebrated in the following ways:

    - I road-tripped north because I had to be in court out of town.  Any birthday spent in a courtroom is a good day for a trial lawyer.  Seriously, good stuff.

    - I got a bit later start than I wanted, so my lunch needed to be quick.  So I stopped and had a meal of spicy tenders and red beans and rice at a roadside Popeyes . . . situated inside a truck stop . . . which was understaffed . . . and the Popeye's pisser was broken so I had to walk all the way back to the truck stop bathrooms to take a leak.  It was an A+ experience.  Of course they gave me extra tenders, because who the fuck can count at Popeyes?

    - on my way home, stopped to try to pick up a new firearm I had purchased and had shipped here.  Which is when the fact that DPS unilaterally changed my name on my TDL (they decided they needed to gringo-fy my middle name) finally caught up with me.  Federal databases have my name correctly (because, you know...that's my actual fucking name).  So, I need to bring in an ID with my actual legal name (my passport will do).  So, no birthday weapon for Brisket.

    - wife and I went to Red Ash for the first time.  The steak I had there was the best steak I've had in Austin.  Seriously, it was perfect in every way.  Perfectly cooked, well-seasoned, melt in your mouth tender aged beef.

    I figure this sequence belongs here because the anchor point was "birthday lunch at a truckstop Popeyes."  I may wear a tie to court, I may eat a fancy steak at dinner, but deep in my soul....I'm a truckstop Popeyes man, and always will be.

  4. 2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Leche quemada is the name of that type of candy.  And here's a blast from the past:

     

    r/Austin - a menu of a restaurant

     

    I would smash that Enchilada Dinner right here, right now.

    As I smashed many of them in the 1970s in SW Houston.

  5. Man, I have a lot of thoughts on this one, will try to tackle this weekend.  But to start, tip of the hat to OP for wrestling with this stuff.  Faith, morality, all of it....it's a journey, not someplace that you'll ever reach the end-point of and say "well, I've got this figured out and am doing everything right."  Just moving along that path with purpose and intention is the most important step.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    “We’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together,”

    ...says man whose administration has 1) characterized one of its largest trading partners as "America's 51st state" and repeatedly shit on that partner's sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation state, and 2) characterized its largest trading partner, a country with gleaming cities, manufacturing, and shipping, as "peasants."

    Yeah, I mean, wouldn't YOU want to sit down and work "happily and ideally" with that guy?

    Fart of the Deal indeed.

  7. 1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

    Trump's only "plan" is to strike a deal with whichever side stands to make him the most money.

    I mean....it's not even THAT well thought-out.  He thinks "I'm the mostest importantest person in the world, and my word is law.  So, people will do what I tell them to."  When he gets a response of "LOL....no", he doesn't have an alternate play.  There is no play here.  His only play is "In will impose a deal on you."  When the parties decline, there is no Plan B.

    The question is "Why won't an invader who won't accept anything less than total conquest, and an invaded country that will not surrender its sovereignty to an invader, just make a deal?"  The answer to the question is IN THE FUCKING QUESTION ITSELF.  

  8. 37 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    You should try an all day Italian party.

    I'll keep checking my mailbox for an invitation.

    But we DID learn about Italian eating the first time our son visited his Italian best buddy's family in Bologna.  He actually called us from the shitter -- "Oh my god I'm going to die.  I've already eaten mass quantities of the best food I've ever had in my life....and Gio just told me this is just the antipasti stuff.  The main meal hasn't even started!  What am I going to do?  I'm trying to shit to make room, I don't want to be rude."  To serve so much food to make my son cry uncle?  Well, that's a goddamned achievement right there.

  9. 7 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

    About 5 years ago I had a basal cell removed from my ear, but other wise have been scare-free. I’m fair skinned and fly airplanes for a living  so I’m in the “higher risk” category i suppose. I do get checked on the regular and have biopsies done on anything weird. Interestingly, around the time I had my cell removed, a friend on Facebook posted the same thing about her ear. But she’s Polynesian and not fair skinned. So I guess the moral is get anything unusual checked, high risk or not. 

    Blahblahblah, pics of polynesian friend.

    Dear lord, this place is slipping.

  10. 3 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:

    You still get a praline at the end of your meal at Molina’s in Houston.

    CSB: Molina's was the first restaurant I ever went to.  I mean, as an infant.  After I was born, that was the first place my folks went out to eat with little 3 week old Brisket.  Don't think mom offered me any queso.  Selfish bitch.

  11. 5 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    Girl dinner was a trend from like 2 summers ago. C'mon Surly, let's not look unchronically online.

    Also, @Brisketexan eating raw pork is a horrible idea no matter how you dress it up (e.g. cultural immersion, delicacy, sophistication, not being raised a wimp). I get doing it once is not a big deal, but parasites are a real thing and gross.

     

    5 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    Raw meat of any kind is risky, but in theory it can be eaten safely on the assumption it was inspected, handled, and prepared properly.

    Yeah, bottom line: food safety in Germany is MUCH more rigorous than here.  We had the same questions when she first had it (and then when we decided to try it).  It's not a sketchy random thing, it's on the menu at a LOT of places, and Germans aren't getting sick from it.

    I mean, if you have a compromised immune system, I wouldn't recommend eating ANY protein raw, but as for me....raw oysters, steak tartare, mett, sashimi, they're all on the menu at times.  Would I eat raw pork in the US?  Probably not.

  12. 1 minute ago, fuggled said:

     

    The ACLU should get on this via a Bivens action for violation of constitutional rights of the attorney and the represented party.  The lawsuit should include a subpoena of records of both ICE and AT&T regarding his wifi service on that day.  And it should seek injunctive relief against ICE 1) shutting off the wifi of any suspect or affiliate of same (like their attorneys) without a warrant, and 2) enjoining ICE from questioning any legal counsel without specific basis to investigate conduct beyond the provision of legal services.

    This is classic gestapo shit, and if the feds had done so with respect to a J6 accused and his attorney, every single Trumper would be up in arms about it (and justifiably so).

  13. 15 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    I find the New Orleans pralines are sugary creamy and Mexican ones are chewy.

    NOLA pralines come both ways.  And as a kid, I recall mexican restaurants that had different recipes coming both ways, too.  I prefer the sugary/crunchier ones.  But yeah, that's a tradition that ended a while back.  Can't remember the last time I saw a "free praline at the end of your meal."

  14. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    What is the fucking deal with VAT?  The only one with which I am familiar is Europe's, and it applies equally to domestic or imported goods purchased for consumption or use in Europe.

    I cannot figure any way in which it affects trade balances.

    It doesn't.  The problem here is that the people bitching about them are so, so, so dumb.  FFS, it works pretty much like a sales tax, and nobody claims that Texas's sales tax - which tacks 6.25% onto every shoe sold here, whether it was made in Austin, Boston, or Shanghai - skews any trade balance.  Because it doesn't.  At all.

  15. 30 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    It's all vibes.

    At this point, that statement is rock-solid truth.  That's because "reality" is so insane and impossible to calculate at present and predict in the future that it simply cannot form a basis for any business or valuation decisions.  When objective reality goes "poof," all you HAVE LEFT to base your decisions on is "vibes."  Which, of course, is a terrible place for an economy to be, because "vibes" aren't real either, and thus they can change 180 degrees in an instant without any external, objective event to cause that direction change.

    The market and many stocks were more disconnected from reality and fundamentals than was healthy.  The Trump admin's approach to uprooting and trashing the entire global economy not only does not improve that situation to tether things more closely to reality, it actually makes things worse in that respect.

    There's nothing about Ron Vara's approach to things (and that's exactly what we're seeing implemented here -- an economic approach that comes from a LITERAL pathologically lying madman) that makes long-term sense or will make anything better.  It's all bad.  All of it.  Even the tiny slivers of it that MIGHT be somewhat good in a different or limited context (see, e.g., targeted tariffs having their place), are executed in such a way as to be super shitty.

  16. 2 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    Brisket is only good when it’s really good. 

    There's something to be said for that.  Unlike pizza, which even when mediocre, is pretty good, mediocre brisket is meh.  Really good, tender brisket with a great bark is a thing of beauty.  Tough and/or underseasoned/undercooked brisket is definitely meh.  Growing up when mediocre chain bbq was the norm (think Luther's and such in Houston, or the various Mikeska's restaurants), brisket wasn't something I particularly craved.  Once I found it done RIGHT, though....yeah, it's glorious.

    I can take or leave kolaches (that is, the sweet, fruit-filled etc.).  Klobasniky, though - again, done right, where the ratio of meat/filling to bread is right, are awesome.  But there is one variety that is worthless: boudin klobasnek.  Too doughy and starchy.  Even though I love both items, together, they just don't work.

    And Blue Bell can get fucked.  HEB Creamy Creations is better both in taste and ingredients.

    A lot of Texas's other food abominations are creatures of Texas being part of the south (jello salads and such) and also part of the midwest (go to far north Texas and the panhandle, and you might as well be in a kitchen in Nebraska, with NO seasoning or flavor).

  17. wish it was Van Halen
     
    [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention] I fucked up and can't directly reply to your post.  If I send a single email to a lawyer I know, can I make the same "attorney-client" claim? 

    If it’s an actual A/C communication, then you can claim that the device has privileged communications with your attorney.
  18. What I like about these massive, indiscriminate tariffs is that they give me the chance to make my bootlegger dreams come true with an infinite variety of cargo.  Maybe I'll smuggle lumber! Or injection molded dildos!  Perhaps cell phones!  French cheese!  Whatever the case, at some point in the smuggling journey, I need to utilize a sweet wooden Chris-Craft, because motherfuckers, it's all about the style.

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  19. 2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Maybe it had just been sitting too long,

    I suspect that had a part to play.  But let's not kid ourselves - they are not high culinary art.  The are a tasty, cripsy treat on the road.  Sure, best when relatively fresh, but nobody is going to change religion over them.  They are what they are.

  20. 2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Agree. Just not a very complex dish flavor-wise. Definitely prefer just your standard corn tortilla w onions, cilantro and assorted meats and salsas.

    Co-sign.  Except my family is northern mexican ranching stock....sure, we ate corn tortillas, but flour were our go-to.  Again, regional variations that piss off hipsters who want to believe they've found the one true authentic mexican food.  Corn tortillas are authentic as shit.  Flour tortillas are authentic as shit.  Just like new england clam chowder, fried chicken, and chili are each utterly authentic American dishes....which are very different from each other based on regional specifics.

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