Monday, October 09, 2006

Party

The party exceeded expectations.......and the icing on the cake was the 51 points the Vols put up on Georgia! I could sit here and write and write but I wont for time sake. I was a little unprepared in regards to my hot pans for the meat I took off the pit for the food line. I just ran out of room to put hot food coming off the pit into a hot pan for serving. We did engineer some foil pans, etc. to get by but I have been worried that someone might have gotten some food that had cooled down a little and might pass judgement on me. I guess I just had too much going at one time and just didnt put the thought into my serving line. I tasted everything coming off the pit and it was great. The bands were awsome and jammed together until about 12:30. If you didnt come then you missed a dang good time. I'm guessing we had close to 200 people throughout the night. I have to mention that this could NOT have gone off without the help of some buddies......Ball, Lamb, Agee, John McCall......I owe you boys! I may try to post some pictures later on.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

All I want to know is...who was that sexy man in the orange Waylon hat singing "good hearted woman in love with a good timin man?" I mean, would somebody give him a record deal? What a hottie!

Anonymous said...

GREAT GRUB Saturday night! I will definitely make it back for more once you are open! the ribs were definitely the best I have EVER tasted!

Shelby Eaker said...

Self proclaimed "super taster"

The smoked bologna was great. But I would have to say you had better let your distributor know that you're gonna be needin an extra truck load of that brisket per month. I loved that stuff.

Anonymous said...

The ribs were incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The baby wanted more so I had to eat three helpings!!!

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