Is That a Brisket in Your Pocket?… Sam’s Bar-B-Que and Other Austin Restaurants Charged With Buying Stolen Meat
Photo by Brian Birzer
MEATLIFTING. It’s nothing new. The 2010 arrest of Austin’s Ronnie Allen Brock provided Texas Monthly with one of our trademark never-ending punny Bum Steer headlines (as if “Bum Steer” itself wasn’t enough).
But meat fencing? With an undercover sting called “Operation Meat Locker” to catch local restaurants buying cowntraband? (Sorry.)
It sounds like something out of Adult Swim’s new procedural parody NTSF:SD:SUV. But it happened yesterday in Austin, with East Side institution Sam’s Bar-B-Que getting nailed. Also charged was Willie’s Bar-B-Que and the Mexican restaurant La Morenita.
KUT appears to have been first to post the story: (more…)
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