Loading…
6
Pro tip: I wrapped my brisket in foil for 3 years before a guy at the Lockhart gas station asked why my bark looked like wet cardboard
Turns out I was basically steaming it the whole time and nobody at my backyard cookouts ever said a word, so now I'm wondering how many other things I've been doing wrong just because folks were too polite to speak up.
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
iris_park8d ago
Oh man, this hits home. I spent almost a decade making chili with a secret ingredient I was so proud of, and then my uncle finally told me at Thanksgiving that it tasted like cinnamon toothpaste every single year. I had been dumping in way too much cinnamon because some old cookbook said it was the "Texas secret." Ten years of people eating it and smiling and saying "interesting flavor!" and I never caught on. My husband even took the fall one time and said he liked it, which honestly made it worse because I kept making it. Now I ask one blunt friend to taste everything before I serve it to a crowd, because polite silence is worse than a mean truth.
3