Most metals are thru the roof right now.
Meanwhile as soon as every tanker/freighter/big ship in the world gets into international waters they start burning straight crude oil.
Apparently you have never had one prepared properly. Good brisket is hard to find, but when you find it, it’s a religious experience.
The problem is that it actually isn't trickleing down. Take BEEF for example. All profit margin is stopping with the packer. The corruption is finding every way to steal everything. I am feeling that we have no hope.
I was born and raised in Texas. I’ve had all the briskets. Franklin’s is good, but I’d hardly call it religious. And, it- for fuck’s sake- isn’t worth standing in line for 1/2 of a day to get. The Salt Lick is for frat boys, sorority chick, and tourists. I‘ve eaten at Blacks in Lockhart, and Coopers in Llano. I’ve had award winning competition cuts and the judges are looking for shit that makes the meal worse, just for some retarded sense of artistic flare. “Toothsome?” Fuck off with your “toothsome.” The shit it tough. Brisket is a crap cut of meat and paying ribeye prices for one is retarded. Millinials have elevated brisket to some cult status that it doesn’t deserve. If it is all you have, you can cook one down until it is edible, and seasoned and smoked properly, they can be pretty tasty. But, religious? Hahahahahaha! No, I stand by my “brisket is WAY overrated“ and I’ll add way WAY over priced.
I’ve got a buddy that does a pretty good brisket. Good enough that his little side business brisket truck has gone from “Saturdays until sold out” to a permanent store front next door to an ”Established” barbeque place and is still selling out every day before lunch. Good enough that he and his wife are going full time and quitting their day jobs. The brisket is pretty good, I’m not going to lie, but it’s over priced by the plate and only slightly less so by the whole brisket. The best thing we have found for it is adding some smoke to a pot of beans.
I don’t know. When I was a kid my family raised some cattle, on the side. Prices were such that the “business” was more of a tax right off than anything. Today, the property is still the same size, and the number of cattle haven’t changed, but the business is actually making money. The infrastructure is the same as when I was a kid- I helped in raising all of the barns. The drought/rain pattern hasn’t changed in South Texas. But, prices paid at the sale barn have increased substantially. Cattle that would bring $0.30 per lb 30 years ago are now bringing over $1 per lb. Increased demand coupled with less arable land...
I owned a place in Llano for 10 years. IMHO Cooper's is crap. They just burn it. My buddy's family, the Inman's, on the other hand, know how to do briskett.
I have the same understanding of the situation.This time, price increases appear to be directly related to serious oversupply of the money printed by the U.S. So, prices for our products, unfortunately, must be raised, no way to avoid it after being able to keep it in check for the last several years.
If brisket is over rated.... you’re doing it wrong... LOL
No, good brisket is good. It’s not worth standing in line for 4+ hours to get. What part of this is hard to understand? There are barbeque joints that have lines form before the place opens, where people employed (before it was stopped by the restaurant as unfair) professional “line standers” to hold their place so that they can go to work- or whatever. You see it above- millennials have made this crap cut of meat into a “religious experience.” Jeebus, you’d probably die if someone have you a good cut of meat. Beef diaphragm, by the lb, is 2x more expensive. “Come on, man.” I have to assume you just don’t know what a good cut of meat is.
Tobacco per pound has gone DOWN. Since they are running all US growers out and a large part of your tobacco comes from South America and Asia where foreign immigrant workers don't get guaranteed H2A wage.....inspected housing with HVAC and gov bullshit. My grandfather raised 11 children well on 80 acres of tobacco. Today if you have an allotment and don't grow hundreds of acres you go bankrupt. Price per pound today is little changed from the 70's....do that math with inflation.
