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I used to go to the one off of 183 just south of Duval all the time. It was right around the corner from work. Now the closest one to me is about a 45min drive in a shopping center I hate. There is a Torchy’s there too so if I go I’m always torn between the two.
Carl, I was hoping you'd eventually chime in with your "outsider-turned-Texan" take on Texas BBQ. Sounds like you're a big fan of the Texas style of preparing dead animals for consumption!!
Much different from Chesapeake Bay/Eastern Shore barbecue? (Or isn't that even a "thing"?)Carl, I was hoping you'd eventually chime in with your "outsider-turned-Texan" take on Texas BBQ. Sounds like you're a big fan of the Texas style of preparing dead animals for consumption!!
- GT
I guess the closest thing you get to a Maryland crab feast around here would be a Louisiana crawfish boil. Same vibe of paper covered tables with the boil dumped out and tubs of beer, but way spicier!Yes, I have embraced there Texas BBQ, and I try to support the local economy as much as I and my cholesterol count can. But...one of those things I miss and always will miss about Maryland, leftist nanny state that it has become, is the eastern shore equivalent of the BBQ, the crab feast!
Fresh steamed crabs on the brown paper covered table is culinary heaven. Not to mention the whole social get together of the crab picking afternoon. Beer in a tub on ice and you can't ask for more. And the left over crabs get processed by the women folk into crab cakes for the next day dinner. In the winter time fresh out of the water oysters on the half shell or in a old fashioned oyster stew like my grandmother used to make puts any other meal from any other location to shame.
But...that was then, this is now, and I'm a transplanted new Texan, so BBQ it will be. We've had fresh out of the water gulf shrimp, and I have to admit that after a short marinade and skewed over the charcoal, it's a fine meal. And Rudy's has lots of choices of brisket three different ways, chicken, outstanding sausage, out of this world ribs, so I've picked up a few pounds since moving here. I usually go mid 170's and now I've got to 183. A few days diet and walking the trails around Lake Georgetown has me back down to 179, so it's a battle.
Rudy's is very bad for me!!!!!
Cooper's over in Llano is worse.
You my not want to try Opies in Spice wood. Their ribs are the best and the owner was the pit master for coopers before he opened his own.Yes, I have embraced there Texas BBQ, and I try to support the local economy as much as I and my cholesterol count can. But...one of those things I miss and always will miss about Maryland, leftist nanny state that it has become, is the eastern shore equivalent of the BBQ, the crab feast!
Fresh steamed crabs on the brown paper covered table is culinary heaven. Not to mention the whole social get together of the crab picking afternoon. Beer in a tub on ice and you can't ask for more. And the left over crabs get processed by the women folk into crab cakes for the next day dinner. In the winter time fresh out of the water oysters on the half shell or in a old fashioned oyster stew like my grandmother used to make puts any other meal from any other location to shame.
But...that was then, this is now, and I'm a transplanted new Texan, so BBQ it will be. We've had fresh out of the water gulf shrimp, and I have to admit that after a short marinade and skewed over the charcoal, it's a fine meal. And Rudy's has lots of choices of brisket three different ways, chicken, outstanding sausage, out of this world ribs, so I've picked up a few pounds since moving here. I usually go mid 170's and now I've got to 183. A few days diet and walking the trails around Lake Georgetown has me back down to 179, so it's a battle.
Rudy's is very bad for me!!!!!
Cooper's over in Llano is worse.
Horsewright
Great post Dave! Thanks for all the great photos! The slicer and meat fork are a great combo! Have a blessed Easter! 
Horsewright
posted, around here, tri-tip is what you usually see at BBQ joints and it is common to see BBQ vendors plying their wares at shopping center parking lots.
