Lockhart BBQ

Smitty's!
on my return back i went to one of my favorite places!!!

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this is a photo, of the open fires used to cook the beef there at the resturant, its right there before you enter, and man its hot!, when they had the fire in this hallway the whole building smelled of smoke, and there must have been like decades of sute build up on the walls, it felt like you were waiting in line for hell. especaialy if it was sumer.
It used to blow my mind about how this place was set up, I imagined telling this concept to the city or a resturant developer,
"Yea i want to put the main fire that cooks everything, like an open wood burring stove that sucks the smoke out in to the pits , have it, there in the line where the custemers can wait to make their order"
I love it! its funny watching alll these tourist try and keep ther cool and patients (like what kinda place is this? it isn't BBQ at Chillies), while waiting in line with there screaming kids, all because they heard about the place in a magazine, ( by the way this place is very famous)
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this is a photo of one of the good cooks who will cut your meat for ya, and serve it on butcher paper, the best Brisket in the world!. you eat it with a plastic knife, no forks or spoons,.
when you get to this point, the point of ordering, you see these like butchers who who look like they have been puring molten steel or something, imagine hanging out by a smokefilled room and a open grill for eight hours, they have the look of a hard life of cutting meet, the torture and love it all.
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after the being in the darken meat cutting room you get to get your sides, in this well lite cool side room or hall,
its has a wierd psychological effect, you wait in line may be ten minutes in this dark smoke hall, get served by a crew of butterball cynibites and you step into heaven whipe the sweat off and order, a sour and dill pickel and cheese, please.
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so i sit down to eat with about four slices of bread, and brisket and hotsause , on a big sheet of butcher paper, along with the good folk of Lockhart. Many have tryed to imatate this place and failed, the building is very unique, it has this atmospher to it, right off the square of Lockhart.

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another place i will go to is Country Store in Luling, i like that place to.
One time i was there and these highway tourist were eating an older skinny well groomed man and his wife i would swear he was college prof or something, and well, he wanted to get some more untencels like a fork for his plate the server said we ain't got any , then older man said under his breath "what your to cheep to afford forks", the guy just didn't get it, or the tradition,. the server heard his grumbleings and said thats the way we do it here, the old man thought it was "com on" or somethig and start throwing open skoualles at him, the rest of the good folk in Luling eatin there that afternoon took notice, .
"Whatta an Asshole!"
i about poped up from my chair to get a much needed tea refill and was walking up on this guy, i looked over to the server and had this look like how dare this sob come in here and tell us how to serve him, the server started addressing me, and the man zipped over to his wife,
"A man could get his ass whopped for something like that, it don't mean nuthing for the good people of Luling to whopp an smart ass college profs ass, especially if he ain't from here, "

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Smitty's main eaten hall,

Posted by chickengeorge at December 30, 2004 11:05 AM