Louie! Barbeque!
Y’all, Louie Gohmert loves him some barbeque.
Take a look right here to see how he’s spending some of the money that the rightwing sends to him.
He buys gas from Dr. Ken Dance? And what kind of car holds $111.01 in gas?
Somebody with a calculator please add up how much he spends on telephones.
My personal favorite?
Do not buy barbeque at Target. Just don’t.
Or Sam’s Club …
Oh dear God …
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
At least he bought some in texas. No way North Carolina or Virginia BBQ measures up.
1Target BBQ is good enough for DC GOP types.
2Perhaps his spending at the doctor’s was not to get gas but because he had gas.
Must be eating all that asparagus.
3the whole BBQ world went to he77 when it became possible to use the word “barbecue” in the same sentence with “chicken”, “pork”, “goat”, “sheep” or etc. Barbecue, to me, is only beef. Anything else is wasting a good barbecue sauce on grilling “chicken”, “pork”, “goat”, “sheep” or etc. Yuck.
4Assuming $8 to $10 a pound, that’s a lot of BBQ. What’s he doing with all that? His coleslaw bill must be tremendous, too. Hmmmm….
5I wrote my doctoral dissertation on barbecue. I’m not lying.
BBQ is different things to different people depending on which part of the country you’re in. I can enjoy brisket at Smitty’s in Lockhart, TX, ribs at 17th Street in Murphysboro, IL, chicken with white sauce at Big Bob Gibson in Decatur, AL, or pulled pork at Skylight in Ayden, NC, and I wouldn’t be offended if anyone dared to call any of it barbecue.
But how can any self respecting Texan buy barbecue at Sam’s Club? Especially Sam’s Club in Texas? There’s good ‘cue all over Texas, but none of it is to be found at Sam’s Club.
It was bad enough when Scott Walker used latex gloves to eat ribs. He could be forgiven. He’s a dam* yankee, after all. But this? THIS???
6Sure are a lot of Service Charges from the Southside Bank. Is this how a fiscal conservative keeps a tight rein on his checkbook balance? Or overspending and running up his line of credit?
7Being a Salt Lick girl myownself, I can understand the love of BBQ but as many times as I have been to Target, I’ve never seen it there.
8Not quite $500 worth of (bad) barbecue bought in three different states over the course of three days? What is he DOING with that stuff? And I know several places to buy barbecue in Alexandria, Virginia, but I’ve never seen it at Target. Hmmmmm. . .
9I can’t figure how the Charleston Place Hotel ended up in North Carolina; why, if he’s so smart, he has to pay Info Peoplesmart for information; who, for $1,100, prayed for whom; and why Dr. Ken Dance’s place, at 815 Bradley Court in Tyler, where he says he bought gas, looks like a house on Google Maps.
10Maybe he doesn’t eat it. Maybe he just rubs it all over his body.
Oh man, I wish I hadn’t prompted that mental image.
Anyway, can we publicize the heck out of this in Louie’s district in hope that the voters will turn against somebody with such bad taste in barbeque?
11Better Harris-Teeter than Target. Some grocery stores have decent barbecue. I don’t know about that one, but I do know about Target.
12“Maybe he just rubs it…”. Thank you, Rhea, for that gross out! Ewwwww….
13A giant class-action lawsuit was settled today in which Target and Walmart admitted liability for the damage resulting when registered voters were fed their so-called “barbeque.” “How were we to know it would make people crazy enough to vote for Louie Gohmert” a store official speaking under condition of anonymity muttered…
(/snark)
14Y’all overlooked the biggest BBQ bill (on the same day as the Target one):
Canales Quality Meats
225 7th St SE
Washington, DC 20003
10/05/2015
Ribs for Bar B Q 434.00
And the 5th of October, 2015, was a freakin’ MONDAY. Who buys $700 worth of BBQ on a Monday?
There is something very fishy about this BBQ stuff, and it sure as Hell ain’t “Shrimp on the Barbie” (although Louie looks a bit like a shrimp, or a cockroach).
Now that above just might have been some good stuff with Texas roots, judging from the Hispanic name “Canales”; which is, while not real common, known around Corpus, Robstown, and the Valley.
Although I would expect it to more likely be the South Texas/Mex variety known as “Barbacoa” BBQ, which I doubt Screwy Louie has ever tried (for the uninitiated: barbacoa is basically “the head” very slow cooked in a pit, w/banana leaves, etc.; usually de vaca, algo puerco tambien).
Used to be a family tradition to get a sack of barbacoa on Sunday morning after Mass; later in years you had to call in a reservation on Fri/Sat if you wanted to have any, everybody got in on it (from many places in Brownsville, San Benito, Harlingen, etc., wondering if Saldivars is still open on N. 77 Sunshine Strip? The ex is still ferreting out the ‘best places’ to find such food, sin ojos o sesos, of course.).
I luvs BBQ, eat and cook it all the time, but no way I’m gonna eat $700 worth, not even in a week.
15There are some vac-packed BBQ items (brisket log, ~$25-50/ea–$11-12/lb) you can get at HEB or Wally that are actually quite tasty. I get one log a month for main course or BBQ sandwiches, yum.
Rhea says:
January 18, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Maybe he doesn’t eat it. Maybe he just rubs it all over his body.
Oh man, I wish I hadn’t prompted that mental image.
AAAIIIIYYYEEEE!!!
16My vision of that was followed by one of depositing the rubbed-down Louie into the lion’s pen at the zoo though…
Barbeque? Is that what the kids are callin’ it these days?
17@Sandridge
In Texas rubbing an unspecified cooked meat all over a guy then dropping him into a lion’s den might be considered hunting on baited ground. Not technically illegal but doing so sure takes the stalking out of hunting. If you killed a lion with a weapon in the process. Now, If you planned on the lion dying from having eaten some or all of Louie Lou Eye, then like you’d be charged with animal cruelty or neglect.
18Micr says:
Now, If you planned on the lion dying from having eaten some or all of Louie Lou Eye, then like you’d be charged with animal cruelty or neglect.
Ouch Micr, I hadn’t even thought of the poor lion(s) (we can hope for a whole pride of them for this feast, eh?) getting severely poisoned. OMFG, that would be crueler than that damned MN dentist SOB.
Holy Crap! The BBC just said Glen Fry, of The Eagles, has passed on…
19@Sandridge
So does TMZ. Been acquainted – not friends – for years. Too young.
20Oh come on guys. He bought paPer plates and napkins, cups, forks and knives, mustard and pickles and hot peppers, although that is a LOT of dishes and condiments. I’m so glad to see Louie. It’s been too long.
21Marge Wood – I agree. Much as I enjoy all the more colorful/bloodthirsty theories, I’m guessing that Louie sent a minion out to do the barbecue fixin’s shopping for some public events. If he wants anybody to show up, you know the least he’s gotta do is feed ’em.
22Micr,
Saw them in concert once in LA (was on TDY in Orange County, actually looked up the real ‘Hotel California’ in $$Laguna Niguel$$, IIRC, just to see it (had my own very nice lodging (complete with the Glenn Miller Band-BIG- practicing outside one week- no rest for the wicked), so didn’t stay there, besides, my boat was just down the road in Dana Point Marina)).
Man, did I have some windshield miles piled up listening to Eagles tapes, then CD’s (plus Dire Straights, Heart, etc., etc. of course).
The Valley used to have a great ‘album rock’ format radio station, KRIX–
Dang, I still have recorded DBX tapes from KRIX (Eagles, et al), and the DBX tape deck; far superior to Dolby, as good as the later CD’s. The GoD’s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_(noise_reduction)
“Although it brought extraordinary dynamic range and lack of noise to the cassette tape medium, dbx noise reduction did not achieve widespread popularity in the consumer marketplace, as compressed recordings did not sound acceptable when played back on non-dbx equipment”
23OMG! That’s my Target!!! Conundrum. This one does not sell butchered meat, only packaged stuff. Of course, they do sell a whale of a lot of paper goods such as plates, cups, etc. Maybe condiments but there isn’t a helluva large selection of those.
Hey, only The Shadow knows!
24Sure has a lot of service charges at Southside Bank!
Wonder if Louie is bouncing checks?
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
10/02/2015 Service Charge 116.96
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
10/06/2015 Service Charge 23.50
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
10/30/2015 Service Charge 15.00
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
11/03/2015 Service Charge 130.35
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
11/10/2015 Service Charge 43.45
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
11/30/2015 Service Charge 15.00
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
12/02/2015 Service Charge 117.44
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
Tyler, Texas 75710
12/08/2015 Service Charge 43.45
Southside Bank P. O. Box 1079
25Tyler, Texas 75710
12/31/2015 Service Charge 15.00
OMG Fred!! That’s $520.07 in service charges in 3 months! What “services” is he getting? Does he not understand using ATMs that are “out of network”? And this man decides how our Federal dollars are spent? C’mon Texas, you can do better than this idiot.
26Perhaps if Texas came to understand that true ’Cue begins with a pig, they wouldn’t be the miserable collections of gun-tottin, pseudo-God-fearin collection of neer-do-wells that can’t elect a politician with more brains and morals than your average pond full of scum.
27@Wyatt Earl
Pig? PIG????? Are you kiddin’ me??? Pigs are the minions of Satan. Their meat is untouchable (Except bacon of course. Ummmmm! Bacon.) Only properly cooked beeves become true writ by G*d hisownself barbecue!
28People in North Carolina are still puzzled by Rick Perry’s familiarity with road kill barbecue in his attempt to disparage our native pork barbecue. Anyway here’s a link to show that the truly conservative choice for barbecue is pork: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/ma95/dove/history.htm
29please 0bserve louie’s happy face pix
30I preserve my proud non-sectarian stance.
Beef barbecue is indeed delicious. But pork – oh, yeah, that too. I prefer the flavor of beef, but the texture of pork.
Chicken? Meh. It’s okay, but mainly serves as a way to give substance and chewiness to the sauce, without contributing much flavor of its own.
31I protest, Harris Teeter is a pretty good grocery store. My kid buys sushi there and he hasn’t gotten sick once (that he’ll admit). I’m sure they have brisket if you ask nicely.
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