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| Beef Brisket with Chipotle Slaw |
…Are Upon You” is the University of Texas
fight song and we reached the halfway point of our trip in Austin ,
home to the University
of Texas Austin is “Keep Austin Weird” and we didn’t
see anything to dispute that. It seems
to be a town full of young people and old hippies, not exactly the combo you
think of when you think of Texas .
What Austin has is a lively food and music scene, centered
around Sixth Street and it has more live music bars on one street than any
place I have been to. In the evening, we
went to Esther’s comedy club on Sixth for distinctly Texas take on Saturday Night Live humor. The Five Flags over Texas
skit with Rick Perry talking about Texas succeeding
from the Union and splitting it into five
parts was hilarious. The show’s magician was also great, especially when he
shot a dog from a cannon through a plate glass window into the street (you had
to be there).
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| Gray-tailed Grackle |
We came across two unique things in Austin .
One is barbecued beef brisket (see photo). Austin is
famous for it and we ate at la Barbecue (formerly JMueller) which is a Mecca of BBQ . It is basically a food truck surrounded by
picnic tables and BBQ smoking equipment.
It has a real down home feel, complete with free beer and live
music. That sandwich was definitely one
of the best I have ever eaten. I’m going
to be dreaming of it for a while.
Another unique thing is the black bird in the picture. It is a gray-tailed Grackle and they are all
around Austin . We have never seen one like that before and
it is a really loud bird that seems to be a cross between a crow and a road
runner. Very strange looking.
Austin, AKA "Silicon Hills".
ReplyDeleteYou're description of the BBQ food truck sounds like what Scott has described to me. Only place where you can go to the gas station and get BBQ as well.