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Buc-ee's gas stations have become a popular phenomenon for Americans who want to fill their tank but also grab a sweet treat for the road. Here DailyMail.com takes a look inside the world's largest Buc-ee's station in Tennessee. The 74,707-square-foot station in Sevierville features 120 gas pumps, a barbecue brisket counter with a 'Texas round-up station' and rows upon rows of beef jerky. Since opening in June, the East Tennessee branch near Dollywood and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has drawn in Buc-ee's fans from around the country, as well as the curious but uninitiated. 'I think this one...

If you've been sweating your way through the past few muggy weeks, it may seem impossible for you to remember a time when it was actually cold enough outside to warrant hats and scarves. But on June 24, a dairy farmer in Ireland tweeted out a pic of one of his calves sporting baby pink earmuffs, and the internet went wild. "So it turns out ear muffs for calves to stop them getting frostbite are a real thing," wrote Twitter user @ThisFarmingMan_. The post has since been liked 171,000 times and garnered more than 30,000 responses. But this isn't the...

Consumer demand for brisket in the U.S. has exploded over the past decade, thanks largely to the popularity of Texas barbecue. That has sent prices soaring for what was once a cheap cut of beef notorious for taking hours to cook. While the U.S. is ramping up beef production, it hasn't been enough to keep up with Americans' growing appetite for brisket.

BERLIN — Three environmental groups are criticizing the organizers of global climate talks in Poland for having too much meat on the meeting menu. The U.S.-based groups said their analysis showed that twice as many meat dishes as plant-based ones are being offered in the main food court of the conference venue. The meeting that started Sunday is supposed to help find ways to significantly reduce greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming. Producing meat requires far more water and land and causes significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions than vegetarian alternatives. The Center for Biological Diversity, Farm Forward and...

Meat started flying at a Danville barbecue festival during a fight between grill masters; brisket was the weapon. Danville police were called to the Kentucky State BBQ Festival at 10:15 a.m. Sunday after a woman was hit with a brisket during a fight, according to a police news release. Mary Berry, 35, of Bardstown told police she was hit in the right shoulder, neck and head by a brisket whose temperature was estimated to be 200 to 250 degrees. She was working at the festival for Fire House BBQ, the news release said. Berry was treated at the festival by...

For $75, you get three hours of all you can eat meat — and all you can drink craft beer. It's a pretty good deal.There's only one thing better than a sublime, slow-cooked brisket — and that's 20 of them. Meat lovers are in for a treat on Wednesday, when some of the city's best brisket chefs vie for the coveted title of "Brisket King of NYC." And the best part is the public is invited to taste them all. "Some guys get really competitive about their brisket cooking," says Jimmy Carbone, owner of Jimmy's No. 43 in the East...

If you're like us, you can't wait for Memorial Day, the unofficial start of barbeque season. There's nothing quite like spending the evening with a cold beer and a plate piled high with chilled coleslaw, thick-cut French fries, and succulent barbeque...

Brisket, a staple of the Hanukkah meal, too often ends up tough, tasteless and gray. But turning this culinary catastrophe into a winner is quite simple. When guests at my restaurant try my version of brisket, they are amazed that it is the same cut of meat that they grew up "not eating!" To make this recipe, it helps to have a smoker, but it isn't necessary. All you need is patience (it takes a long time to cook) and to buy the right cut of meat...

We have a weird Christmas tradition around here at the Garland FOB. I always cook a brisket to feed the familial units.

OK all you FR cookers, it's 4:30 AM,Have you got your meat on yet??Stoked up the fire in the pit about 3:am, got the brisket on about 3:30,will put the ribs on about 10:am and the chicken about noon for a mid afternoon feast.FReeper friends, neighbors and kin folk will be here today to enjoy one anothers company and celebrate whats left of our liberty and freedom.What are other FReepers doing today?? Tell us about it and please, the more pics the better.

Texas style BBQ, for all to enjoy. Step by step pics included, start to finish.

If that stupid little hoe can't find other ways to get money off that farm, then SHE'S stupid :) Don't diss on PETA just because they're right, ok? ok. I'm a student at UCLA and a PETA member!