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Chris Allingham

Chris Allingham

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I subscribe to Texas Monthly magazine for the barbecue articles and pretty much ignore the rest. It's time to renew and they're giving me two free gift subscriptions to give away.

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Chris
 
I subscribed for a while, but cancelled last month. Its taking a really long time to get a refund from them.

Like you, I subbed for the BBQ but even that was not enough to keep me interested.
 
I really only wanted access to their archives. And after they went behind a pay wall, I bought in. But when the pandemic hit, they dropped the pay wall and its free again now, as far as I can tell. The pandemic has also had a huge impact on barbecue joints everywhere. Not much new involved, its just about survival.

But to me, Daniel Vaughn's best stories were years ago ...... maybe 2012 to 2016. When the Aaron Franklin influenced barbecue explosion was taking place in Texas. The barbecue down there has changed in recent years. It was once about emulating Franklin, now its about doing something different than Franklin to differentiate their barbecue. And frankly, some of that is pretty cool but a lot of it loses my interest.
 
Texas Monthly has become a shopping catalog. More ads than actual content. Plus since it's Austin oriented, gone too far to the left for me
 
Example of breaking away from Aaron Franklin , so many people smoking meats on 1,000 gal propane tank smokers, they have to be different. Franklin's partner when he was in a trailer, John Lewis, left Austin and went to Charlston, NC because " there's 50 other people doing what I do in Austin "

First Look: Heim Barbecue Brings its Inclusive, Anti-Line Agenda to Dallas​


“Having to wait four or five hours, that goes against my belief of how you do restaurants,” Travis Heim says. “That’s sort of why we do what we do, where we make really good food but the mechanic that works next door at Mockingbird can actually go and enjoy it and go back to work.”



Heim Barbecue’s Mockingbird Lane location — its third; the others are in Fort Worth — has been open for only a few weeks, but business is booming. There’s already talk about adding another smoker. High demand is not a problem the Heims expected to have in the middle of a pandemic, but it’s a problem nonetheless because they believe in serving everybody.

“Almost every minute of the day the smokers are completely full, which is awesome, but it’s a little hurdle that we didn’t think we’d have,” Travis Heim says. “I talk about how I don’t want any lines, and we still get lines. We want to make craft barbecue, but make it actually accessible. We want to do lunch, dinner, breakfast now with breakfast tacos, and that's hard. The consistency, the quality — you’re not just doing one rib cook, you’re doing maybe three or four throughout the day.”
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That’s not to say that the Heims don’t love so-called craft barbecue hot spots with celebrity pitmasters. They love those joints just as much as everyone else does. But they’re trying to model a different kind of business.

“I think none of the barbecue places would be opening in the last five years if it wasn’t for Aaron Franklin,” Travis Heim says of the James Beard award-winning owner of Franklin Barbecue in Austin. “That’s great, and it’s my favorite barbecue. But we can do 99% of that, but we can also make it to where you don’t have to stand in line for two hours. That’s just my personal bullshit.”
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And its really not that I'm bored to tears, but I try to put in 50 miles a week on a bicycle and podcasts are great for my one hour rides, but the fellas from Houston who do this podcast ...

Tales From the Pits

...... are pretty much bored with central Texas brisket and ribs. They've eaten so much of it, its old news. They now make the distinction between Old School Texas barbecue and New School. Old School would include the Lockhart joints, Louie Mueller, and even Franklin. New School is Leroy and Lewis, the stuff ya see on Chud's YT channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLTjOX249AJsrl9iJh4CSw

Me .... I've yet to visit Franklin's. Or any of the other " Old School " joints. Would be happy to make that trip if the stars ever align.
 
Chris Allingham said:
That's why I read the barbecue content and disregard the rest. Thank goodness barbecue is neither left or right. At least not until someone decides to screw it up and make it so. :)
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My local bbq shop has political yards signs out front their store right now that read Brisket and Ribs 2020, I went in and told them I was extremely disappointed because I support Pulled Pork and whole yardbirds, I still spent too much money in their store even those we supported different candidates. ;)
 
Chris Allingham said:
That's why I read the barbecue content and disregard the rest. Thank goodness barbecue is neither left or right. At least not until someone decides to screw it up and make it so. :)
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There was this story a while back...

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North Carolina senate candidate commits grievous sin: confusing grilling for barbecuing

You've got to hand it to North Carolina — they have some truly scrumptious scandals down in the Tar Heel State.Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham found himself in hot water on Monday night after tweeting a photo of himself standing next to a gas grill, spatula in hand as he apparently...
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He lost the race, so hopefully everyone will learn to keep politics out of gas grilled and BBQing moving forward!
 
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