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On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, sticks wrote:

> On 6/27/2022 8:50 AM, gregorymorr...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 9:14:45 AM UTC-5, sticks wrote:
>>> Today marks 10 years since the day my brother, known here a Lou, 
>>> passed
>>> away. If he were alive, I'm sure we would all be heading over to his
>>> place for massive amounts of way too much food. He'd be working the
>>> smoker, the deep fryer, the grill, and Louise would be watching
>>> everything in his kitchen. He'd be working on cans of Old Style as he
>>> went, and the stereo would be blasting some obnoxiously loud music
>>> making talking pointless.
>>> If you asked him if he needed anything, he would say all he needed was
>>> for you to show up and have a good time. When it was over, everyone
>>> would be sent home with a huge assortment of the days eats. He was a
>>> foodie.
>>> RIP my brother!
>> 
>> 
>> I miss him, he posted a lot on rec.food.cooking...
>
> I'm working on a project I decided to undertake in honor of Lou and my 
> dad.  The old man really got a kick out of Lou and his cooking.  So the 
> General, as we used to call pops, had a pig roaster that I remember using 
> at family things back when I was a kid.  It's been in the family over 60 
> years I guess.  Hasn't been used for a long time, and I found it stashed 
> in a trailer.  I decided to resurrect it.  I've gone over all of it and 
> the original design was very good.  I bought a US military Schutt M116A2 
> trailer from a government surplus auction up in Sparta and mounted it to 
> that.  Did some work on the trailer to make it more civilian friendly, 
> and it will be easily portable and create a fun event.  The only thing 
> I'm still working on is converting the spit over from regular old carbon 
> steel to 316 stainless.  I didn't want to take the chance of anyone 
> getting food poisoning, even though we roasted many a pig on it back in 
> the day.  It was expensive getting all the pieces to make it work, but in 
> the end it will be a first rate cooker.  We'll have a big get together 
> and probably have to get a keg of old style to have a toast to the 
> General the his foodie brat.  I'll post some pics once I get it ready to 
> burn.  The only problem I see is I'll probably have to go way up into 
> northern Wisconsin to find a pig all the ass holes around here don't 
> know.  :-)
>
>


.max still uses Lou's smoker on a regular basis, and we always raise a 
glass in his honor.  Lou would be impressed with .max's smoked meat 
skills.  He basically mastered the Gary Wiv methods of "keep it simple", 
and it works.  Not a lot of fussing with thermometers and fancy smoking 
chips or whatever.  Yummy smoked meats!
Thank you, sticks!

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