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My heart goes out to that trump loving, abbott voting texan.

This the Golden Age the orange buffoon keeps yapping about?

I have never understood the brisket fandom. I have tried it many times, expecting the magic that is promised, and it's just not good meat. I don't care how long you rub or smoke or what magic combo of wood you use - brisket is shitty.

Brisket

So cracker fuck stick BBQ joint owner, refuses to teach Texans the real rule of unintended consequences, Texans remain uneducated.

Inflation is the value of money getting lower so it affects everything, but beef costs in particular have other reasons for going up in addition to inflation, same with gas. Inflation plus key markets seeing prices go up means 7 dollar a gallon diesel and briskets you have to take a loan out to buy

Shame on WaPo for using "BBQ" to describe smoked beef. Everyone knows BBQ is pork.

CONTRARY TO THE BULLSHIT THEY RAN ON AND WHICH WAPO AND BEZOS THE KKKLOWN HELPED THEM PUSH AS AGIT-PROPAGANDA FROM 2024 TO PRESENT, THEY ACTUALLY WANT ALL OF US STUCK EATING THE CATS AND DOGS. YOU DON'T FEED YOUR LIVESTOCK PEOPLE FOOD. #BOCYOTTWAPO

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They still serve cake right?

Try selling Trump Soy Brisket, just to piss off MAGA.

they say even the ironies are bigger in texas

In three months: "Top Texas BBQ joint goes bankrupt, blames Joe Biden" buried on page A17.

„They are eating hot-dogs, they are eating hot-cats” Or was it a road-side squirrel?

Beef cheeks replace brisket in the regular menu and you can still order brisket (2 lb minimum), so definitely not the end of the world.

"First they came for the Carnitas, but I said nothing because I am not Latino."

Who the fuck would go to a Texas BBQ joint that didn't have brisket?

Brisket isn’t that much more expensive than it was a year ago. Something else or someone else is inflating the price.

I'd like to know who they voted for It's become more apparent how much these fucks screwed themselves over just like everyone else Renee Good's parents voted for trump and see what they got out of it? A dead daughter Heckuva job MAGA!

I'll take whatever excuse they can get, but this really sucks.

Batter fried bits. IYKYK.

And Squirrel. And Possum.

Oh, nice, learned a new thing. Aromatic meat is dog meat though.

Hey, WP Editors. Is this what you meant? Because it's what you said. "The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by the increase in the average price of good and services."

Just wait until the texas GOP tells people it’s time to start eating soy brisket😳

This is what wapo has become.

Trump take beef

Right! Meat makes me sick too. So does dairy. No clue why people like it.

Isn’t the rising price of brisket, inflation?

As a vegetarian Texan I'm all for this!

Texans are more into maga BBQ jingles than actual BBQ, so those stupid hillbillies will be fine.

Aren't "skyrocketing prices" what makes inflation?

Tip from this pescatarian : frozen tofu seasoned properly, tastes very close & is packed with protein. Also, every meal without beef, helps curb global warming.

Department of redundancy department? Down the hall corridor.

The closest thing to a plague that Texas gets for its electorate sucking so bad the last decade

Because there are non-inflationary pressures driving up the cost of beef as well as inflationary pressures. Specifically, severe drought has reduced herd size over the last couple of years, so there's less beef in the system, which has driven up prices above the inflationary index.

its also supply issues, the beef industry still has not reached the amount of cattle needed to meet demands the last few years. It takes approximately 2 1/2 years to grow a cow for beef slaughter.

+ cheap contaminated beef importation Doesn't help domestic ranchers at all

Also they didn't even mark it up, they just cut it from the menu

So, what's it called when you ask a rhetorical question, but you're wrong because inflation isn't the only thing driving higher beef prices?

And it *was* a real crisis - the chickens were being culled thanks to H5N1 outbreaks.

The eggs weren't price gouging, it was a supply shortage

In this case, the cattle industry has been facing increasing limits which is reducing beef availability. That scarcity is increasing prices on its own, then on top of it is inflation and other factors.

It's also because the Trump administration did away with a lot of safety measures that led to serious diseases spreading among live stock. Lower supply because of the culling of thousands of cows is not inflation.

Inflation implies that the price is going up because everything is going up. Part of the skyrocketing prices is due to beef specific problems, like screw worm.

The inflation was fueled by inflation in fuel

And some damn tarnation.

I’d rather imagine this was AI than that WaPo employs someone who doesn’t know what ‘inflation’ means.

In popular language, most people use "inflation" and "higher prices" interchangeably. But strictly speaking, inflation is the expansion of the monetary supply, and prices can rise for many different reasons. Bird flu making egg prices go up isn't inflation, for example.

Is this the "G" in MAGA?

He's not even in the Senate and James Talarico is already banning brisket. Sad!

A true Texas Republican would be honored to give up beef brisket forever to prove their continued love and devotion for President Donald J. Trump.

Any moment now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton will officially declare beef brisket “woke”.

Is this also anti semetic ? Hard to tell now days

So they are NOT trying the Argentinian brisket?? Shocker!

If this happens at The Pit Room in Houston, it was me who burned it down.

"not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation" - so both the specific inflation and the general inflation?

Ben Shapiro says he should leave America if it’s too expensive here

Huh?

"The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation." is this the laziest writing of all time?! They're the same fucking thing, you complete numpties.

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No brisket in TX? I knew things were bad but damn, that really is the apocalypse.

When it costs $50 a person to get some BBQ for lunch in Texas…Texans that haven’t had a raise in 5 years are gonna vote their pocketbooks.🛑

Longpig was a regular part of the Polynesian diet back in the day. So be careful what you wish for. But irrespective of cannibalism, beef‘s a dying industry in the USA. Most people already can’t afford it, unless you’re talking about those gristle patties they sell as burgers at the fast food joints

We have several local ranches selling beef - either partial or whole sides, and every cut imaginable. They are more expensive, which makes it a luxury rather than a staple. It's also safer, I know where the meat comes from and supports local business.

How was it done before Hormel and Tyson came on the scene?

This is a really weird business decision. Why don't they just order less and mark it up? Or increase prices across the board to subsidize their most popular menu item? I feel like this makes no economic sense, which makes me worry even more about the impact of Trump-flation (worms, wars, etc)

Maybe Texans can BBQ the Don’t Tread On Me snake they love so much.

Who did the owner vote for? There’s always tRump’s discount meat sludge. It’s cheap!

But brisket is the only thing they do well in Texas, wow what a shame.

Imagine if there was a #Democrat in the White House I can only imagine the nauseating reaction from #TedCruz

In the late '70s, I visited many family owned brisket places around San Antonio and Austin. As I recall, brisket was around $10 a pound, high if you were an Army NCO, but a treat. This could enhance the Blue Wave as much as anything. Whether red and blue, Bubbas love their brisket. Trump's a moron.

"The best cut of beef costs too much now so we will deny it to all of our customers instead of continuing offering it to customers who can pay" "Also, fuck communism"

#TrumpDidThat

Perhaps the silver lining is how people might rethink their meat consumption habits moving forward. Something something about moderation...

it used to be! as was ground beef, flank steak, beef liver(now $6lb when i can find it) ckn liver(now $5lb when i can find it) bologna 6+lb.. when i 1st started in restaurants 1983, the vendor LITERALLY would just give us 40#cases of ckn wings that we cooked off for soups.. gotta love capitalism🤬

Glad I bought part of a cow.

If there is a silver lining to this age of crises it’s that I’ll be able to watch the meat industry crash and burn in my lifetime. Good riddance.

trump has killed bbq!

Beef It's NOT what's for dinner?

This sentence is BS--The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation. --- Isn't the skyrocketing price of brisket PART of inflation?

They didn't give it up, the restaurant decided to bet that the price of the cut will come back down - bold move - instead of buying it anyways and passing the cost to the customers and being accused of price gouging.

Trump takes BBQ

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How are you guys doing down there in Texas? Are you winning yet?