Smoking BBQ In a Junk Yard

You sometimes will sell your soul. That’s how this BBQ smoke house joint got started.  Used to be you could put out your vegetables or other farm fresh or canned products for sale . The side of a well traveled secondary roads suited the trade fine.  Apparently regulations have hit the country roads as well as the suburbs of U.S. cities. I am sure you all heard about the infringement upon free enterprise endeavors by our youth trying to sell lemon aid.  The innocent process of the milk and cookie crowd to make a few extra buck was stopped in its tracks. Police called and product confiscated along with a strong warning to never do it again.

Turns out the potential Smoke House BBQ joint was born under these conditions.  It is truly an  axiom that one door closes and another opens. These  particular Smokin’ BBQ  boys found a way to get ‘em to come a knockin. They found a way to subsidize the cost of their great smoked BBQ .  Pulled pork, pulled chicken and brisket chopped K.C. style or sliced and trimmed. They had the barbeque  smokin’ baby back rib know how. Handed down, tried and true. What they also had was the north quarter. Which was quickly filling up with scrap metal and other items. That would be found on the highways and by-ways of America.

The idea was to give truckers and highway travelers more than just great smoked BBQ. So that the trip is more attractive. They decided to give credit points to a customer who brought in junk that could be turned over and recycled. Before you  know it the 5 acres filled up and before long they were selling the junk and more and more came and brought their junk. The brothers gave them smoked BBQ to eat at prices they could afford to pay.


The only person that was upset was using the north parcel of property for junk was mom. “So we built her a big house right in the middle of it”. The story does not end here.  It didn’t take much time before they started to separate some parts and construct and design creative smokers for everyone to try smoking at home.