I go to Wurstfest almost every year. I couldn't make it this year for personal reasons. I just love the fact that there's a whole festival about sausages. That's it. There's also plenty of beer, dancing, and music but mostly they just want you to put their sausage in your mouth.
You were talking about the run up to the end. You're moving goalposts. Would you like to try to redo this so that you stay on topic, or do you want to complain?
I don't care either way, you're a useless person to me. But I thought you might want to try to at least make it look like you've got a real problem with this specific thing rather than just being miserable and trying to make everyone around you miserable as well.
Smoking meats is a hobby. To get dinner ready, you start at 3am and tend the firebox all day. You try different rubs, woods, and techniques to make the product of your craft the best it can be.
3am?!? What tiny little brisket are you doing at 225 to start that late? You've got to leave time for it to rest.
Ok, in all seriousness this is one of my main hobbies. By that I mean I do it often and I've stuck with it for years while other hobbies have come and gone. I've got a couple of offset smokers, a drum smoker that I built, and a pellet smoker when I don't have the time to tend the firebox but still want to smoke something.
I said all that to say this: there are plenty of people who couldn't give two shits about smoking meats who absolutely come ask me questions about it. Not because I'm the best, and not because they want it to be their hobby. But because I'm excited to talk about it. I also tend to bring full plates with me for my friends (and usually a couple of extras) so they get the benefit of having food.
I've also had women ask if they can come hang out next time I crank up the smoker. It's an easy way in for someone who wouldn't normally be confident enough to approach you.
Stella Immanuel, the doctor down the road from me. It's a good pick because she's insane, she's a woman, she's a person of color, and she's an immigrant. So she'll be a multiple token to "prove" how he's not against any of those people.
There's nothing wrong with Cajun seasoning! I used to use either Tony's or Cavender's on stuff for years because I had a busy lifestyle, didn't always have the give a shit to mix my own spices, and early on I didn't really have the knowledge to know what was good yet. I'm just in a place where it makes sense for me and I'm very happy with it.
By the way, if you're looking for something pretty good that isn't Cajun seasoning, check out Kinder "The Blend". It's a legit SPG.
I've been making an SPG blend for a while on and off based on proportions my buddy used for his brisket rub. Sometime last year he started keeping a whole jar of it on hand and seasoning everything savory with it rather than just using salt when it's called for. The biggest difference between his and mine is that he uses sea salt and I use regular table salt. The flavor is slightly different and I don't get the big crystals, but it's still pretty great.
He turned me into a believer. I've started keeping my own jar and that's my base spice for everything. Chicken, fish, beef, pork, veggies, whatever. Most things get extra like paprika, chili powder, oregano, parsley, or whatever the meat calls for, but everything gets at least those three. Even my homemade mayo gets it, which means it goes on all my sandwiches as well.
I totally get it, and the truth is that none of us really know how we'd react if it's not us in the situation. We can only guess.
I'd like to think being ridiculously wealthy wouldn't change me but we all see how most rich folks act. I'd like to think I'd spend my time in that gilded cage gaining skills and stocking up on money so that once I'm free I'll have a life of relative ease. However, I don't know that and I suspect I'd have done nothing of the sort. But it's nice to dream.
The prevailing wisdom for dealing with trolls in the past has been report, block, and move on. You never know if someone is going to thrive on that kind of conflict and a whole lot of motherfuckers love it.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong because honestly I don't know. I'm just sad they're running off people contributing to their community and mad that they're sexually harassing people.
I didn't think I had to mention how amazing the very authentic skillet queso and frosty margs were. I thought that was just common knowledge.
I'm in Houston and I send everyone to Chacho's. For authentic Texas barbecue I send them to Dickey's because the Thomas Barbecue location I used to send people to closed down.
Learned skill. I spend a lot of time drunk and Android tends to do a pretty good job of guessing what I'm swiping.
I also tend to reread what I wrote when I'm drunk. I actually generally do a worse job sober because I won't double check my work.
And it was signage displays for the dumb TVs I was thinking of, and Sharp TVs used to have unsecured wireless networks that you couldn't really turn off, so they'd make a mesh with other smart TVs. I believe I've heard the same thing about Samsung as well.
Sceptre is cheapo stuff. And at least one brand of smart TV is wardriving to find networks behind your back (again, drunk, I can't remember which right now) and creating mesh networks with other TVs of the same type.
I like the fact that someone hates the idea of saying things for fun so much they had to downvote you for pointing it out. They're just out here with scholarly citations for every single thing they've ever said and didn't reply because they couldn't immediately cite a paper with a counter argument.
I go to Wurstfest almost every year. I couldn't make it this year for personal reasons. I just love the fact that there's a whole festival about sausages. That's it. There's also plenty of beer, dancing, and music but mostly they just want you to put their sausage in your mouth.