OT: Stuck at another charity benefit dinner - COOKED BY COMPETITION BBQ TEAMS!!!

Foghorn

Foghorn

lkapigian

Heck Ya!!

ColtsFan

Awesome! 

Foghorn

And more  

marysvilleksegghead

lots of great looking food!

Foghorn

Foghorn

Foghorn

This is my favorite event of the year. Obviously. 

lkapigian

Foghorn said:

Awesome Spread 

shtgunal3

Foghorn said:

That is a thing of beauty!

northGAcock

I hope you were able to fight your way through it. Seriously, that is some Gawjus food.

Botch

Foghorn said:

Very experienced cook(s) to get those ears perfectly bronzed like the rest of the porker, without burning them off.  Wow!  

blind99

man, that looks awful.  i hope you made it through...

Photo Egg

Damn...so cool!

YukonRon

There is nothing in any image of the food posted that did not look delicious or did not look fun.
Thank you for sharing

Mickey

Not too shabby my friend. 

DoubleEgger

Foghorn said:

Foghorn

Thanks for all the kind comments.  This was the 5th annual Ribs and Ritas fundraiser for the First Chance Foundation that helps abandoned, abused, and neglected children.  The founder realized that people with money donate to charities because someone they know is affected by diabetes or cancer or whatever the disease is the focus of the fundraising event.  But abandoned, abused, and neglected children don't have wealthy parents, aunts, and uncles so there is no fundraising for them.  So they started this charity 15 years ago.  Last night we raised over $200,000 and the amount raised gets higher every year.  They also are the cooks for The Good Life competition BBQ team that I hang out with at competitions when I have the time - thus their logo on the remote control SUV beer cooler delivery system.

@Botch, they are indeed masters at their craft whether it is whole pig or any other competition cook.  The bacon wrapped jalapenos are stuffed with their competition brisket and do very well in competition.  

Each team that cooked last night has been the grand champion in multiple large competitions over the years (most of them enter 20-30 per year) including cookoffs like the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo BBQ Cookoff that has over 300 teams each year.

If any of this moves anybody to donate - or just want to learn more about the foundation, you can do so here.  But that was not the reason for this post.  I just wanted to share some pics of some great food.

http://firstchancefoundation.org/

Foghorn

And I should have mentioned that the two pits with the golf cart tires are self-propelled.  One has it's own drive motor to the wheels and the other has a wench that is used to pull it onto the back deck of the BBQ trailer.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

This is awesome, Dan. Im in to contribute for sure. This cause is near and dear to my heart- we took guardianship of a kid from very tough circumstances a few years ago. All she needed was a chance and she is a thriving self-sufficient young adult today. Thanks for supporting this cause! 

Eoin

Glad you made it through the event @Foghorn, looked like a tough gig to endure.

Foghorn

@Eoin, we had to do something to console us after watching Liverpool win the Champions League. 

@The Cen-Tex Smoker, I think we need to have some advance planning next year so you and some other South Texas eggheads can attend. @20stone, @caliking, and others. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Foghorn said:

@Eoin, we had to do something to console us after watching Liverpool win the Champions League. 

@The Cen-Tex Smoker, I think we need to have some advance planning next year so you and some other South Texas eggheads can attend. @20stone, @caliking, and others. 

I am so in for that! 

Foghorn

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Foghorn said:

@Eoin, we had to do something to console us after watching Liverpool win the Champions League. 

@The Cen-Tex Smoker, I think we need to have some advance planning next year so you and some other South Texas eggheads can attend. @20stone, @caliking, and others. 

I am so in for that! 

You don’t say. 

caliking

Foghorn said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Foghorn said:

@Eoin, we had to do something to console us after watching Liverpool win the Champions League. 

@The Cen-Tex Smoker, I think we need to have some advance planning next year so you and some other South Texas eggheads can attend. @20stone, @caliking, and others. 

I am so in for that! 

You don’t say. 

It may take some convincing, but I could probably be talked into something like that

thanks for sharing, @Foghorn. Looks like quite the shindig for a nice cause. 

thetrim

Sounds like a great  forum meet up in the future.

Foghorn

caliking said:

Foghorn said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Foghorn said:

@Eoin, we had to do something to console us after watching Liverpool win the Champions League. 

@The Cen-Tex Smoker, I think we need to have some advance planning next year so you and some other South Texas eggheads can attend. @20stone, @caliking, and others. 

I am so in for that! 

You don’t say. 

It may take some convincing, but I could probably be talked into something like that

thanks for sharing, @Foghorn. Looks like quite the shindig for a nice cause. 

I'll try to plan better for next year.  I anticipate it will either be Saturday May 30, or Saturday June 6, 2020.  Location TBD (somewhere in/around San Antonio) as the guy who has hosted it for the past 4 years (and is the single largest donor) has two ranch venues like this and has put both of them on the market at some point over the past couple of years as he would like to sell one.  This was the first time at this venue and it was probably better than his other place, but it's my understanding that he has a potential buyer for it.