Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from barbeque restaurants. Some Austin residents complain of the barbecue smoke saying they can’t enjoy their homes they purchased before some of these restaurants moved in.How do you ban barbecue in Texas, any more than in the South? And what kind of person complains about the smell of barbecue smoke? I'm not sure there's a more wonderful smell on God's green earth than barbecue smoke.
The city council’s current proposal will require... at least $100,000 in extra investments for most barbecue restaurants as they will be forced to buy extra smokers along with severely expensive diffusers, and in some cases will have to lease or purchase more property.
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It is effectively a ban on barbecue restaurants in a town known for its barbecue.
Near Miss in Austin
Apparently your immigration from California is posing the same kind of problem for Texas that migration to Atlanta has posed for Georgia these last thirty years. The Austin city council almost voted to ban... barbecue smoke.
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Maybe Texas should have an immigration policy: if you don't like the smell of bbq smoke, you can't come in.
Would probably exclude a fair number of high-income california residents..
Is the smell from the restaurant always fresh, or does the ductwork pick up some other odors? I was talking with a prof from India about cooking, and he said that in cold climates where one couldn't always cook outdoors they found it advisable to cook in a garage or other outbuilding, because the oils and spices that smell so good at first tend to adhere to the walls and become rancid over time.
Barbecue joints smell like hickory smoke. I've never been near one that didn't smell great. There was one in Dawsonville that built a pipe to route their smoke so it would blow across the nearby intersection as an advertisement!
I am reminded of Garrison Keillor's observation about the couple that moved to Lake Wobegon and didn't go to church. People looked on in wonder. They didn't have anything against it, it's a free country, nobody can make you go to church, but if you didn't want to, why would you move to Lake Wobegon?
Austin's not really Texas. Austin residents are often sort of ashamed of Texas.
Austin residents are often sort of ashamed of Texas.
Or so they say. Really, they're projecting.
Eric Hines
The foundation of moving into a territory that you don't like, is to conquer it via invasion, colonialism, etc. Everything the Left and Democrats say they dislike, they tend to fund or promote.
Barbecue smells bad? What plant do these yahoos reside on?
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