Arrival and other fun
We get to Dallas without incident and quickly see a Dickies BBQ. Cyndi asks “Are you ready to start?”, so we got half a lb. We’ve eaten at the Arlington Dickies several times, but this left a bit to be desired. Sure it was 8:10am - they serve breakfast so were open anyway and the guy said he had brisket. He had a chunk of Point meat there in the warmer. As he cut me some slices I guess he was concerned when I asked “Is it always like that?” So he went and got us an apparently fresh whole brisket. I asked to taste the scraps and I’m glad he got me fresh, cause that point meat was awful. The sliced was kinda weird and I still think he sliced us point meat… I dunno, it was weird. Tasted great with his sauce though.
As Erika said when we were taking off…. “Goodbye Dallas, Hello Austin”
Guess what? We land and there’s a Salt Lick in the terminal, so we try this again. The brisket LOOKED like it should and this at least had some smoke ring, but it was still very different than ours. Again, good with the sauce. Was some kind of honey mustard BBQ sauce, but meat was dry and really needed the sauce.
Rental car… I know things are tough, so it just makes sense that some car companies need to ‘go the extra mile’ to attract customers. In this case, Advantage Rent A Car has a new policy of offering various freebies in their rental cars. Today, we got a bag of marshmellows, a top to a baby formula bottle, a skittle, some hair and a nice used stack of coffee napkins (with a coffee stain) in the glove compartment. Gee, all those years of renting from Avis and they never gave me freebies like this. Anyway, took a while to get out of the airport… it was a little slow making sure all the existing damage was marked down on the rental form and eventually we got out of there. Well, at least they had the best rate!
Oh yeah, did I mention that the TSA went through our carefully packed bags and ransacked the nicely folded clothes, even opened up the gift box of fudge? thanks guys.
November 28th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Jaymer,
A must visit when you get to Lockhart is Kreuz’s (http://www.kreuzmarket.com/index.shtml). I’ve eaten there several times and I swear it’s the best brisket in Tejas! Texas Monthly magazine did a roundup of the best BBQ in Texas this summer and they ranked it #2 in the state.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
hey stan
we talked with Ricky, the owner.
my brother knows him.
they were out of brisket, but i saw some on a plate in the dining room. it was VERY thick cut. wish i could have had some, but was not in the cards. the beef ribs were nasty overcooked, and the pork chop was dry. their beans were awesome.