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From our own Huckfunn:
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World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest
The world’s larges BBQ contest starts every year 4 days before the Houston Rodeo. There are generally between 250 and 300 contestants who set up their cook shacks in the Reliant Center parking lot at Kirby Drive and South Loop 610 (pdf). The cook shacks will range from just a small tailgate setup to big outfits with tents the size of restaurants. All have bars and many feature live music. For 3 nights the contestants barbeque beef, pork, chicken, goat, gator tail and just about that will hold still. On Friday night their culinary skills were judged for best chicken, ribs and brisket. This year’s winners were:
Overall Grand Champion
San Antonio Invitational Team – Texas Pepper Jelly
Champion Chicken
Rotten Wood Cookers
Champion Ribs
Goose Creek BBQ 1
Champion Brisket
San Antonio Invitational Team – Texas Pepper Jelly
Go Texan Best Barbecue
Freestone County Go Texan BBQ
Most Colorful Team
Holy Cow Cookers
Go Texan Most Colorful
Nueces County
Most Unique Pit
Pitmaker
Best Team Skit
Cooked on a Pitmaker
Cleanest Team Area
Floyd Morrow& Larkin
Dutch Oven Dessert Contest
Hoot County Saloon 2
Mrs. Huckfunn and I drove down to Houston Thursday morning and were guests of the Asleep at the Grill team. There was a full bar, zydeco band and tables to seat about 100 people. For the main cook shack, Asleep at the Grill boasts a 40’ horse trailer (it never held horses) with multiple smokers and a separate bedroom with 50 inch flat screen TV. Thursday night we were treated to chicken, pulled pork, Cajun style boudin and the best gumbo I’ve ever had. Ribs were scheduled for Friday and brisket for Saturday. After a sumptuous meal and several margaritas, Mrs. Funn and I strolled the lot perusing the variously embellished cook shacks. We bypassed the deep fried Oreos and fried cheesecake. There was a full blown carnival in the lot next door. If you had your fill of BBQ, you could take a purge ride on the Tilt O’ Hurl and go back for more.
We were lucky enough to get a room at the Crown Plaza Hotel right across the street so we didn’t have far to go when our feet wore out. One of the strangest sights was the traffic cop standing in the intersection at Kirby Drive and Westridge fiddling with his smart phone while his buddies directed traffic around him.
I apologize for the poor picture quality. I had plenty more but they just didn’t turn out very well. At any rate, I hope you’re enjoying your Sunday afternoon. Pull up a plate and enjoy this open pit BBQ thread.
Some Pics of the spread:
Asleep at the Grill cook shack
Asleep at the Grill cook shack
Winner of Dutch Oven Desert Contest.
Fixin the fixins
Chowing down.
This guy was wearing an ankle-length coat made entirely of
Crown Royal sacks.
Desert.. Yum.
