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Jordan Jackson, formerly of Bodacious Bar-B-Q in Longview, has resurfaced at Franklin Barbecue after a stint in rehab. Shortly after Bodacious Bar-B-Q was named the #4 barbecue restaurant in the last Texas Monthly top 50 list from 2017, Jackson disappeared and left both the restaurant and his protégé Bryan Bingham behind in reasons related to drugs and alcohol. This is a wonderfully reported story from Daniel Vaughn on the restaurant and people he left behind in Longview. Well worth your time.

In mid-2019 Jordan Jackson of Bodacious BBQ in Longview, the #4 BBQ joint in TX, seemed to disappear from barbecue. Months later, he resurfaced in the Franklin BBQ pit room. Here’s his story. https://t.co/9S8JIlRfzm

— TMBBQ (@tmbbq) November 29, 2020

Native News

Jon G’s gets a nice write up from AndrewLoves_

Charlotte Agenda has a local Charlotte gift guide, including barbecue rub from Midwood Smokehouse

Today is Small Business Saturday. Shop local today and always. Here's our all-local gift guide with many online shopping options. https://t.co/2sEoT0dAFK

— Axios Charlotte (@axioscharlotte) November 28, 2020

A couple of barbecue-related items make WRAL Out and About’s NC foodie gift guide

Happy 4th Anniversary to the NC F&B Podcast who has interviewed lots of great NC barbecue personalities

Happy 4-year Anniversary to us!🥳 We’ve thoroughly enjoyed having conversations with restaurant owners, brewers, chefs, wine connoisseurs and more from throughout the state, the country, and even the world during the past four years, and can’t wait to see what the future holds. pic.twitter.com/HahrgDJFlD

— NC Food & Bev Podcast (@NCFBPOD) December 1, 2020

Non-Native News

Chipotle gets in on the brisket trend

.@ChipotleTweets adds smoked brisket to menu at 64 restaurants https://t.co/ap8SIrzhP8 @FastFoodMaven pic.twitter.com/6XjXItXmI6

— Restaurant News (@NRNonline) November 30, 2020

John Tanner’s Barbecue Blog gets in on the recent Georgia barbecue action

More Georgia barbecue

DAWG GONE GOOD BBQ, Athens, GA-Great family owned joint. Perfectly moist pulled pork (8.6). I Recommend the vinegar or the mustard sauce. Best collard greens anywhere! Afterward stumble across the street to Classic City Lager for a beer. That’s a Dawg Gone Good day! pic.twitter.com/9t4UoSXHKA

— THE BBQ REVIEW (@BbqRate) December 1, 2020

House Park Bar-B-Que was damaged by a fire early Tuesday morning but hopes to rebuild

Austin fire damages House Park Bar-B-Que https://t.co/dSeWf51PuG

— Kristie Gonzales KVUE (@GonzalesKristie) December 1, 2020

A fire has caused severe damage to House Park Bar-B-Que, Austin’s oldest continuously operating barbecue restaurant.

📸 by @jayjanner https://t.co/tN4Vn5Xjlv pic.twitter.com/boq6nsXpp0

— Austin 360 (@austin360) December 1, 2020

Everything bagel chicken wings? Everything bagel chicken wings.

Everything bagel chicken wings born out of pandemic at Swig & Swine https://t.co/nHsr5XWAxF pic.twitter.com/4GUxHnO9g0

— Eater Carolinas (@EaterCarolinas) November 30, 2020

Colder temps call for chicken mull

When the temperature drops, I want Brunswick stew or Chicken Mull. Never heard of Mull? right this way ->https://t.co/fctawzO27q pic.twitter.com/CTM8V6ta1m

— John T Edge (@johntedge) November 30, 2020

Thanks for the shout out, Dan Williams! He cited our site in an interview on the Lang BBQ Smokers Blog.

DW: There are some millennials like me that seem to really care about these things, including some chefs opening bbq restaurants that care about continuing a regional bbq tradition, like Buxton Hall in Asheville. Organizations like the Southern Foodways Alliance are also trying to document what’s important about bbq in all of these various regions and profiling the key restaurant players in those places in the south. One of my favorite blogs, BarbecueBros.co, is run by some young guys who are just friends and like to write about regional bbq traditions and restaurants, particularly in the Carolinas which, in my view, is where we should start when talking about pork bbq.