\t\t\t\tWe finally got some decent barbeque in Portland yesterday, from LOW Barbeque at the Portland Farmers’ Market at PSU. “LOW” stands for “Laid-Off Workers” on account of the fact that the proprietors, Rodney and Kyle, have 15 years experience in the semiconductor business but no current gig in that industry. They smoke up brisket, pork spare ribs, and lamb ribs and sell it at the farmers’ market and from a little stand in SE Portland.<\/p>\n
Before serving their first customer, the boys returned to their native Texas for a tour of the principal barbeque joints, such as Louie Mueller’s in Taylor, Smitty’s in Lockhart, and Crosstown in Elgin. They skipped Kruez on this trip since they used to eat there a lot in the old days before the hassle in the Kruez family and all the unpleasantness. The study trip shows you how serious these boys are about their meat, and it’s chronicled here with pictures<\/a> – don’t watch on an empty stomach.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We finally got some decent barbeque in Portland yesterday, from LOW Barbeque at the Portland Farmers’ Market at PSU. “LOW” stands for “Laid-Off Workers” on account of the fact that the proprietors, Rodney and Kyle, have 15 years experience in the semiconductor business but no current gig in that industry. They smoke up brisket, pork … Continue reading “Barbeque Pilgrimage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-wm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}