lastmajordude
is One Chatty Farker
Great post and write up!!!!!!!!
I'll probably never eat at Franklin's. I'm not hipster enough to wait in line that long. :noidea:
Great writeup! I've been there and was glad I went. If you're with fun folks, the line is no issue (and if I have something to read I can be anywhere - & if there are TX hotties walking around I need nothing else) and the brisket is the best I've had by far.
Bretheren - Rockinar's review is spot on. I've been to Franklin's several times. Recently they've instituted a no placeholder policy ... places in line cannot be held by another person/group. I'm a former academic and would visit my academic friends in Austin. We'd hire a PhD student to get to Franklin's early and old our places in the line. We'd give the guy money for beer, and something stronger. We'd buy the kid lunch and a get him enough BBQ to go to keep him meals for about a week and send him home with a couple of Franklins for his time. PhD students always wanted to do that deal.
I love Franklin's brisket. I thought mine was really, really good and everyone always Always wanted to take some ome. No leftovers, ever. But one slice of Franklin's and I knew I couldn't haul water for Franklin. I've tried Wagyu brisket, read Franklin's book cover to cover many times over, used nothing but S&P, had Texas oak shipped to OK, and there's still something missing. In the process of trying to replicate his results my brisket cooks have gotten marginally better, but for the life of me I can't match the Franklin Brisket. He's putting something on/in his briskets that I can't figure out.
His ribs have nothing but S&P and those I nail. His sausage isn't available up here in OK, but down there in Austin, I'm a big fan. I like all Franklin's sides.
All in all, Franklin's is, to me, the epitome of Texas Brisket (all others are pretenders) IMNSHO. It's kind of like Disney World ... ya gotta go just for the experience and to say you've done it.
Rockinar's, excellent review. Thanks!
I have said I would not wait in line for 4 hour even to see Jesus walk on water.