Ace of Spades

kdink

Just drove 40 miles extra roundtrip to get Rockwood because local Ace dealer does not respect the customer or charcoals.
They drop it, slam it, the bags are always a mess.  Today got call, wife buys T Bones, I'm out so I figure just grab one near the house on way home. I'll deal with it.  But finial straw was when I get to the expected mess and find they now are stacking fertilizer bags on same pile mixed in with the charcoal.   I just turned around and walked out.  
Sad

loco_engr

  

nolaegghead

Fertilizer - very strong oxidizing agent.  Charcoal, very strong reducing agent.  

Looks like their product placement is explosive.

EzraBrooks

lousubcap

I have now found Rockwood in the Academy Sports and Outdoors stores around here.  FWIW-

Dobie

What price they asking Capt.?

lousubcap

Dobie said:

What price they asking Capt.?

$30 plus tax for the standard 20 lb bag. 

nolaegghead

I’ll cook with gas before I spend more on lump per pound than a pork butt….heresy! You may say.  Yes.

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap

@nolaegghead you are definitely finding either cheap butts or very pricey lump. 

I will always support Rockwood given the way they stepped up and established their on-line fulfillment when Firecraft bailed on mail order shipments several years ago. 

Dobie

Ace ace gets my biz for Rockwood as they send me $15 off $75 coupons every month. 

Me and @NPHuskerFL brought it under $20 just a few years ago, everything’s expensive anymore. 

nolaegghead

I do find cheap butts, and I can not lie.

My opinion is principled insofar as the price per pound of lump relative to the cheapest meat I cook on it.  Nothing to do with brand.  That said, I do appreciate everything Rockwood aka Jonathan has done.

Langner91

JohnInCarolina said:

@JohnInCarolina, you were a kid! Thank you for your service.

JohnInCarolina

Langner91 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

@JohnInCarolina, you were a kid! Thank you for your service.

Every once in a while I’ll tell my class “I haven’t been this tired since Nam” and they’ll ask “what happened in Nam?”. Kids these days.

nolaegghead

Is that where you lost your (third) leg?

Langner91

Looks like he is carrying it in his right hand.

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

Is that where you lost your (third) leg?

Not exactly.  That was in Cambodia.   Or in a prostitute with Chlamydia.  One of those.

Botch

JiC, send me a PM please (your PM thingie is blocked).  

alaskanassasin

I haven’t seen sun $1 pork butt since the pandemic. Seems to hover around 1.79$ as a sale price 

Canugghead

Botch said:

JiC, send me a PM please (your PM thingie is blocked).  

You can still send him PM...
Go to your own profile > Inbox > New Message > Recipients box > Type in john... (@ not needed)...

dmchicago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You never know where the comedy lies in this here forum.