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Texzilla58

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  1. 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.
  2. Horns 27 Weird underwear. 16
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The biggest issue with mushroom sauce: fucking mushrooms.
  13. 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.
  14. For the same money buy the fancy stadium tour. It’s way better than a game.
  15. How old is he? Why introduce him to the disappointments in life that goes with being a Cowboys fan?
  16. How old is he? Why introduce him to the disappointments in life that goes with being a Cowboys fan?
  17. I’ve had sliders on a griddled split Krispy Kreme donut. It just fell apart. I’ve also had it one on a larger grocery store bakery donut. Wasn’t a fan. What I really don’t like in current burger fads is the brioche bun. Brioche makes great French toast or bread pudding. Sucks as a burger bun. Give me a fucking Mrs Bairds sesame seed bun. It’s Gods preferred burger bun. I’m thinking an Apple fritter might be adapted into sandwich service of some type.
  18. The genocide of the bison for the railroads was the catalytic event that completely nailed down the fate of native Americans on the plains. The Comanche were still indomitable and keeping the frontier stuck just west of Ft Worth until we’ll after the civil war.
  19. I don’t care if Jackson is guilty or not; hope he is just taken to Guantanamo forever. Bad judgement on Patrick to not keep his lowlife brother away from the game and out of the limelight, but I’m sure he’s got an earful from his mother and shithead wife to support him. I would have enjoyed seeing Jackson try to cop a feel and getting a broken arm from a Taylor bodyguard.
  20. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/colorado-parker-couple-fights-denver-broncos-game-woman-dies-man-jailed-murder/ Not at the game but watching it. This can be blamed on that stupid Russell Wilson contract.
  21. I got dragged to lunch by a client to Uncle Julio’s in Ft Worth. He said “I found this place. I think it’s the best fajitas!” I told hit had been there almost 40 years which he didn’t believe. (Margarita/sangria swirls and a tortilla machine were big deals). He’s lived on that side of Ft Worth since before they opened. It’s been a few years so I went with cheese enchiladas. Worst I’ve had in years. They were covered in a watery thin insipid “beef sauce” or “homemade carne salsa”. I then remembered that was why I quit going there yeas ago. How do you fuck that up? I should have gotten queso on them instead that was so bad. He got his chicken fajitas that he raved about. They looked like they were boiled.
  22. Are you there s racist in all your opinions?
  23. What no lentils or celery in your hot dogs?
  24. I don’t know. Saw no mention of lentils, garbanzo beans, mango, lavender, or enoki mushrooms.
  25. The Titans front office that traded AJ Brown should be fired. And whomever at the Dolphins signed Eli Apple should be fired. He is a turd.
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