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Good grief, Harry, are those ribs? Where do you find ribs with that much meat on them? Or are they pork loin roasts? I can't tell from the picture.

I'm about to go get meat for the weekend, and that one looks like it has bones sticking out against the grill. I thought I was going to have to have a serious talk with the hog butcher! I'm considering doing a version of the Magnificent Fatty this weekend. Depends a lot on whether I'm going to be lazy. Those things look like a lot of work.

I lived in Waco 11 years, and was very surprised by the foods. All the canned things I love from the Deep South (Allen Canning/Trappey's/Texas Fair, all one outfit from Siloam Springs, Arkansas) were there at HEB and Albertson's, and yes, Shiner and I are old friends, as was Blue Bell Ice Cream, from very nearby Shiner. What really shocked me was the lack of Mexican (make that Texican), maw and paw restaurants I had looked forward to. Incredibly, there were Taco Bell's on every corner, and lots of burger joints (but I really miss Whataburger). Sometime in the past, people told me, the fast food places came in a ran the little Mexican places out of business. I found a great place in Gatesville, another in Hearne, and Rosebud, one in Greune, and Greene's Sausage House in Zabcikville is world class. I mean that. No place in the world I have visited has ever come close to the cafe, or the sausage in that tiny little crossroad of a town, not far from the huge metropolis of Cyclone, where Bonnie and Clyde once stole a tank of gas at the Old Store, which is across a path from the New Store, and is the same family's operation. But all the places I mention are American food. I was really looking forward to the Texican food I had the first two times I was in Texas many years earlier, and other than in people's homes, and what I learned to make, I never found it. There were some decent places for Mexican food, but nothing like what I had enjoyed 2 decades before, with little old Mexican ladies "team cooking" in the kitchen.