If you people don’t stop this, I’m going to have to visit Texas again! This is your last and final warning!
When I was a boy, about 55 years or so ago, we used to go the the Huntsville Prison Rodeo, (before the lawyers shut it down, it was one of the best rodeos). We were driving in from Baytown, Texas. At that time there were no interstate highways, only state highways. So...people came in from all different directions,....from the west, from the south (Conroe, Dayton, Cleveland, Houston) from the north and east. As you approached Huntsville, (say 15 miles from Huntsville) you began seeing roadside stands and people selling things they made or cooked or their agricultural products). One of the main things you saw were black men cooking in their yards in a hand-dug pit...mostly pork ribs and brisket. My dad, who had been raised in Hunstville, had a goood number of black friends who he knew and they taught him how to cook barbecue from a pit. Most of the BBQ was not basted in a tomato paste, but rather in an apple cider, honey or sugar, cayan pepper, black pepper, salt concoction, mixed with an oil (usually corn oil, but I have learned that any oil will do.) It was the best BBQ...perhaps because of me being a kid, and the smells of the food when we stopped to get lunch. It was real Texas BBQ.