Wilson's Barbecue. The best I've had?

Those of you who live in the Meadowbrook area as I do, will recall a little building at the intersection of 820 and Brentwood Stair which has housed every kind of eatery from fried chicken to fried donuts. The average lifespan for each is around three months.

It's now Wilson's Barbecue. I noticed it the other day, so stopped by for lunch -- and I hope it lasts a long time.

Is it the best I have had?

It's hard to say in one visit, but I will say this.  Wilson's sliced beef barbecue sandwich was lean, juicy, tasty, and stacked high in the sandwich -- and the thought did run through my mind, "this might be the best barbecue sandwich I've ever had."

I ordered the dinner plate which was a good portion of sliced beef, pinto beans, potato salad, two slices of bread, and an iced tea. The potato salad was a little sweet and over blended for my palate, but good, nevertheless. The pinto beans were perfect. The beef was as good as you can get, in my opinion. Price: $11. Probably about what you'd pay at any good barbecue place, but a little higher than my normal lunch budget.

This is very good barbecue, if you've been, please tell me if you agree. Wilson's also serves the usual rib plates and the like.

Wilson's has two locations, one off Camp Bowie, and a new location on the Eastside at Brentwood Stair and 820. It's right off the freeway, next door to the What-a-burger .

Two Locations:
Wilson's Barbecue
5633 Lovell Avenue (after post note: Jake says this location is closed.)
Fort Worth, TX 76107 
(817) 763-9482 () ‎ 

Interstate 820 & Brentwood Stair Rd. 

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Two election graphics.

I spend way to much time looking at election statistics and graphics. I need to justify the time somehow, so I thought I'd post two that I thought particularly well constructed. Republicans had a good day on Tuesday, some readers are happy about that, some are not; this post is not an editorial on the election's outcome but on the reporting methods.

As a side note, this is the first election that Twitter was a big part of, and in some ways, the first election web-based advertising and reporting made itself almost indispensable. That is, print, television, and radio are being forced to incorporate Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, etc. 

If you have any thoughts on the subject, please comment. I think this is an interesting trend.

Back to the graphics.

The first image is pulled from a group of ten depicting Republican and Democrat swings in House membership for the last 50 years. It was produced by the New York Times. The link is here: NYTimes Wave.

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The second takes statistics from Twitter use and highlights the number of posts related to candidates running for governor or the Senate. It also is a creation of the NYTimes. Click Here

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Ranger Fan? Read this.

Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal

Saturday, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page article on two Texas Rangers fans who have been believing in their team since day one, almost 40 years. The paragraph below is pulled from the article. To read the rest: Wall Street Journal article.

"When Tom Schieffer was president of the Rangers from 1991 to 1999, the nuns were never shy about giving him advice about how to run his team, he says, and which player "needed to pay attention to his personal life."
Sister Frances is no fan of former owner Tom Hicks, and was none too pleased when, in 2000, he signed Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year-deal worth $252 million. Hicks Sports Group was forced to sell the team in bankruptcy court this past summer.
"He didn't know beans from bull foot about baseball," Sister Frances says of Mr. Hicks."

Sisters Frances and Maggie attend every home game and they are still predicting the Rangers to win in seven.

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