Awoke this morning to read Barry Shlachter’s story in the Star-Telegram that brisket prices had soared recently to a record high. Nice picture of my friend Danny Longoria holding up a big slab by his smoker in Everman.
But then I got to the fourth graph and read about how serious these price increases really were:
Dallas Green, a champion barbecue smoker from Parker County, woke from a five-week coma after a motorcycle accident to find brisket prices had soared. He didn’t need more bad news while convalescing from head injuries, broken ribs and a fractured pelvis, he said.
“Just friggin’ outrageous,” Green, who returned to work a week ago, said in a call from his Hudson Oaks restaurant, Cowboys Barbeque & Rib Co. But he’s decided to eat the higher cost to build traffic to his venture, less than a year old.
Imagine the horror of it all. Being in a coma for five weeks and finding out brisket prices had gone up by about ten percent during that time in the hospital. Thank God that cookbook author Shlachter was able to point out the unversality and seriousness of brisket prices to the masses.
Barry Slacker thinks he’s real funny.
He did a story yesterday about a guy who became homeless and lost all of his belongings in a storage unit following a serious accident.
Where on earth did the Star-Telegram find this winner? He’s an insensitive clod.
Agreed: Slacker ( barry schlachter) is a horrible reporter who twists the truth to get a little story.