BBQ Comps Come To A Halt For The Jack

Tuffy took Grand Champ!

The Royal and The Jack in the same season. Impressive.

Yep,I figured you would pick up on Tuffy's classic training as part of his dedication.

Back before Tuffy and his father got their RV,he would sleep in an aluminum frame/plastic strap lawn chair by the firebox of his stick burner.Even in drizzling rain and high 30 degrees.We were fortunate to set up beside Tuffy at comps and when Trigg would laugh at how hard we worked just doing our job,we could point at Tuffy and laugh.

When we were all buying cases of leaf lettuce to build our boxes,Tuffy was bringing cases of parsley.He would teach Barbara how to do them with parsley, during the evenings,and we would be amazed that he would spend at least 3 hrs picking the parsley,before he even started building his boxes.

It took another couple of years ,before the practice spread.

He is one of the most polite and quiet cooks on the circuit and we all kid him about how hard the producers worked just to get him to say his few lines on the TV bbq shows.We never saw Tuffy take a shortcut or not have time for a fellow cook.

He had access to top prime meats from his real businesses and he would share them with his competitors at the cook-offs.

Now that is a real gentleman!

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Originally posted by Tom:
He had access to top prime meats from his real businesses and he would share them with his competitors at the cook-offs.

Now that is a real gentleman!

Nah, that's just a very fine cook confident in his own abilities.

Either way,we'd be happy to sit out in the rain with Tuffy and his father any place we ended up together.