(01-03-2018 02:28 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 12:31 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  Austin sucks now...cool in the 80s and 90s...now not so much. Too much traffic, too many millennial posers and California Cash Outs.

Skip BBQ in town...head to Lockhart or Luling

San Antonio is much better for touristas.

Good god you are clueless. Some of the best BBQ is in Austin right now - and no I am not talking about Franklins

Are you trolling?

I've been to enough BBQ joints in TX that I know what is good BBQ...I'm steering him to some of the originals out in the country. I'm not disagreeing that A-Town doesn't have awesome BBQ...but it sounded like he wanted to go out in the outskirts.

Don't get your panties in a wad.

(01-03-2018 02:19 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Don't listen to any of these fools. Austin is very Lushtastic and San Antonio is incredibly sterile and bland.

Been here off and on for 30 years and it is just as great.

Meh...I first visited A-Town in 1982 and lived in the Texas Hill Country and along I-35 for 20 years (92-95 and 2000-2016) my opinion is just as valid as yours.

By calling San Antonio sterile and bland you also label yourself a fool.

Unless you are really into music...San Antonio has much more to do. I do agree that Austin is better than San Antonio in BBQ...Tex-Mex I give the push to San Antonio.

(01-03-2018 02:22 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  I lived there for 12 years. Whatcha wanna know?


BTW, stay out of the Bee Caves part of town. Pony94 is around those parts.

And full of a bunch of rich liberals

https://youtu.be/7xk9-lVpttE

(01-03-2018 03:56 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 02:19 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Don't listen to any of these fools. Austin is very Lushtastic and San Antonio is incredibly sterile and bland.

Been here off and on for 30 years and it is just as great.

Meh...I first visited A-Town in 1982 and lived in the Texas Hill Country and along I-35 for 20 years (92-95 and 2000-2016) my opinion is just as valid as yours.

By calling San Antonio sterile and bland you also label yourself a fool.

Unless you are really into music...San Antonio has much more to do. I do agree that Austin is better than San Antonio in BBQ...Tex-Mex I give the push to San Antonio.

I’ve lived in Texas most of my life and I’ve never heard Austin referred to as A-Town.

Please inform exactly what this “much more” is that San Antonio has to do than Austin. Very curious to hear this....

OMG, you haven't tried Franklin's BBQ on the East side. I thought,,,it can't be that good til I tried it. It is the best of anywhere near Austin, including Lockhart, Luling and Taylor.

(01-03-2018 04:46 PM)AusTxPony Wrote:  OMG, you haven't tried Franklin's BBQ on the East side. I thought,,,it can't be that good til I tried it. It is the best of anywhere near Austin, including Lockhart, Luling and Taylor.

Beef ribs at Stiles Switch. Never was a beef rib guy until I tried that place. Also like Valentina's Tex Mex BBQ - saw Aaron Franklin there chowing down.

Hike up Enchanted Rock out by Fredricksburg (about an hour) at sunset and lotta good German food there as well. Hamilton Pool springs out by Bee Caves in the countryside, (half hour). Or Willie Nelson's place in Luchenbach, (45 minutes). Good countryside viewing all.

(01-03-2018 04:30 PM)Moody Magic Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 03:56 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 02:19 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Don't listen to any of these fools. Austin is very Lushtastic and San Antonio is incredibly sterile and bland.

Been here off and on for 30 years and it is just as great.

Meh...I first visited A-Town in 1982 and lived in the Texas Hill Country and along I-35 for 20 years (92-95 and 2000-2016) my opinion is just as valid as yours.

By calling San Antonio sterile and bland you also label yourself a fool.

Unless you are really into music...San Antonio has much more to do. I do agree that Austin is better than San Antonio in BBQ...Tex-Mex I give the push to San Antonio.

I’ve lived in Texas most of my life and I’ve never heard Austin referred to as A-Town.

Please inform exactly what this “much more” is that San Antonio has to do than Austin. Very curious to hear this....

Dude...when I lived in Wimberley we used to call it A-Town. Does it friggin matter? I can call it ATX, The Capital, The dangling dick of Round Rock, but does it matter?

San Antonio has the Paseo Del Rio (RiverWalk), Market Square, The Alamo and the other Missions, Sea World, and Fiesta Texas are more than enough to keep someone entertained for a week.

(01-03-2018 04:46 PM)AusTxPony Wrote:  OMG, you haven't tried Franklin's BBQ on the East side. I thought,,,it can't be that good til I tried it. It is the best of anywhere near Austin, including Lockhart, Luling and Taylor.

Haven't tried it...but is waits of 1-2 hours is still the norm?

On a short vacation do you want to wait in line? It sounded like he wanted to see the countryside.

(01-03-2018 04:51 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-03-2018 04:46 PM)AusTxPony Wrote:  OMG, you haven't tried Franklin's BBQ on the East side. I thought,,,it can't be that good til I tried it. It is the best of anywhere near Austin, including Lockhart, Luling and Taylor.

Beef ribs at Stiles Switch. Never was a beef rib guy until I tried that place. Also like Valentina's Tex Mex BBQ - saw Aaron Franklin there chowing down.

Ya, about them beef ribs... I don't understand the infatuation with them. Yes, they are good, but to take an EXCEPTIONAL cut of beef like a rib roast and downgrade it so it merely tastes "good" instead of outstanding by Q'ing them to death?? Nobody eats a prime rib "well done", and for good reason!

But sell that overcooked hunk of meat as "BBQ Beef Ribs" and people throw money at them. I tried them once and quickly realized I was WAY overpaying for a poorly cooked rib roast.

Observe what a nice pecan smoked BBQ beef rib roast SHOULD look like. I'll never spend money on beef ribs from a BBQ restaurant ever again!

I was in Austin back in October ... Man, I was reminded yet again why I don't go to Austin... And couldn't wait to get back home/Houston.

Popular bumper sticker in Austin: "Keep Austin Weird"

Popular bumper sticker in Houston: "Keep Austin"

I didn’t realize Franklin’s had over-smoked!

https://youtu.be/Z0aneIM2OQw



I waited about 90 minutes and it was totally worth it. Franklin sliced my brisket himself. But I’ll take Hutchins BBQ’s brisket ( in McKinney Tx) over Franklin any day.
SMU GRAD TOO!

(01-04-2018 12:39 PM)TheOrigamiJimmyChin Wrote:  Popular bumper sticker in Austin: "Keep Austin Weird"

Popular bumper sticker in Houston: "Keep Austin"

"Keep Lubbock Flat"

Its funny seeing Houston people ragging on Austin. People in Austin have better things to do than think about Houston.

(01-04-2018 02:51 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Its funny seeing Houston people ragging on Austin. People in Austin have better things to do than think about Houston.

Here's what I think of your last sentence

(01-04-2018 06:11 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 02:51 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Its funny seeing Houston people ragging on Austin. People in Austin have better things to do than think about Houston.

Here's what I think of your last sentence

Ours out here in Hipsterville By The Sea:

Make Montauk NOT
So Great Again.

(01-04-2018 06:14 PM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 06:11 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 02:51 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Its funny seeing Houston people ragging on Austin. People in Austin have better things to do than think about Houston.

Here's what I think of your last sentence

Ours out here in Hipsterville By The Sea:

Make Montauk NOT
So Great Again.

Friend lives in Oyster Bay so I hear Montauk too much on the LIE

(01-04-2018 06:11 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 02:51 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Its funny seeing Houston people ragging on Austin. People in Austin have better things to do than think about Houston.

Here's what I think of your last sentence

Houston isnt so bad for a 100 square mile parking lot.