Different Brits
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That’s a beauty! Is it the response to someone’s question or comment?
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Nice looking cooker! What does the chimney extension do? Does it improve draft?
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Improves draft and accelerates airflow, but most importantly the smoke is not in my face and rises up and gets blown away from the windows of the building behind me.
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First bbq joint I ever experienced.
Toddlers eating cue. 
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Here’s my first. Addicted from the first delicious rib on…
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How is the Friday fish fry?
Sounds delicious.
My first BBQ:
It was somewhat more run down then than it is now, but I enjoyed it immensely!
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Contributing to the thread drift.
My first real Bar-B-Q was at Leon’s BBQ on Fillmore San Francisco, when the area was still known as the Western Addition. Before the Fillmore Gentrification.
Placing and picking up your BBQ meant maneuvering money/food through an opening in the (bulletproof?) screen protecting the clerk. The storefront was more secure than most banks at the time.
Clientele most definitely “local”. White (Kilpatrick’s?) bread to sop up the Q sauce. Good stuff.
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Flints in Oakland was my fitst❤
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Mine too, I think.
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For me, they were very heavy on the smoke. Their slice of white bread and a pat o’butter was essential. Good memories!
Flint’s (on Shattuck in Oakland) was my first _real_BBQ. They were inconsistent, ranging from “just OK” to sublime. I’d see them reaching with tongs into the pit, grabbing one piece of beef, looking it over, and putting it back in (not done yet), then taking another out, checking it out, and throwing it away (overdone, apparently!), then finding another that was just right, and chopping it up and mopping it with sauce, with their little hand-mops. Sort of a haphazard system, but it usually worked out.
They had printed-up menu sheets, which listed their offerings with prices, and had statements like “We don’t use any particular cuts of beef”, and “No sauce will be sold separately or put into containers”.
The above experiences were all from the eighties and nineties. In the late nineties, there were numerous lengthy unexplained closures and re-starts.
Currently, Crystal Martin, the step-granddaughter of founder Willie Flintroy, is attempting to revive the business with popups etc. – I wish her the best.
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