Flickchart Highway Journey: Pure Nation

Welcome again to the Flickchart Texas BBQ Highway Journey! Our remaining set of joints takes us west of Dallas and Fort Value to the tiny city of Cresson. Right here, we go to a BBQ joint situated inside a fuel station within the type of BBQ on the Brazos!

Cresson is a tiny city with a projected inhabitants simply north of 1000, situated on the nook of a number of counties. In contrast to all the different Texas cities and cities we’ve visited, the origin of the title Cresson is unclear. Some suppose it comes from John Cresson, the captain of a wagon prepare that got here via the realm, however an analogous story has additionally percolated concerning the title coming from a employee on the Fort Value and Rio Grande Railroad. But a 3rd story affords it was named after Cresson, Pennsylvania, a city equally located on the hub of a number of railroad strains.

Regardless of the origin, there isn’t a lot to talk of in terms of Cresson. Regardless of being outdoors of out of the most important metro areas within the nation, it doesn’t look it. It’s a cease for these seeking to gasoline up, no matter their mode of journey, however Cresson doesn’t have a lot historical past to talk of. The small, rural space serves as a quiet getaway for these in DFW who need to reside outdoors the hustle of the town and even the suburbs. It serves primarily as a ranching and retirement neighborhood. Cresson’s most notable function is a rustic membership for sports activities automotive lovers that hosts a racing observe.

This locations BBQ on the Brazos outdoors the everyday story for most of the spots on the checklist. Driving down a stretch of Freeway-377, BBQ on the Brazos is situated inside a Texaco, in a small partition of the constructing, not even in Cresson a lot as down the freeway from it. The porch of the fuel station overlooks the aforementioned race observe.

BBQ on the Brazos opens a lot sooner than different locations on the checklist, beginning its day at 7:30 AM and providing breakfast. Humble John Sanford opened up store in 2013 and shortly attracted the nostril of barbecue aficionados. Utilizing post-oak over a wood-burning rotisserie assisted by fuel, the place is greater than meets the attention.

I loved brisket, sausage, and a brisket taco to start out off my day. Maybe it was being among the many first prospects of the day, however this was among the greatest brisket within the state. Dare I say, second greatest. The brisket was glorious and fatty with a superbly seasoned bark and soften in your mouth style. I used to be additionally served two burnt ends with the meal, which have been most likely among the greatest bites of BBQ I’ve ever had subsequent to Franklin’s brisket. The sausage was additionally close to good, with a wonderful smoky style and simply the correct quantity of cheese and jalapeño. The brisket taco wasn’t fairly as robust, however got here in a pleasant comfortable and recent tortilla. So, it was nonetheless a tasty morsel.

I award the brisket 5 slices out of 5, and the sausage 4.5 hyperlinks out of 5! I award BBQ on the Brazos 4.5 people who smoke out of 5!

Pure Nation is a George Strait-starring automobile. The singer performs fictional nation singer Dusty, who goes via a mid-career disaster as he realizes he’s bought out on what makes him nation for glitz and glam. A commentary on the Garth Brooks period of music, it’s a film extra related to nation music than cinema. Whereas it’s a street film, it does start within the Dallas space and filmed a scene within the Cresson Cemetery.

Strait’s soundtrack for the movie fully outsold the precise field workplace for the film, a testomony to Strait’s music-centric star-power and the movie’s mid-tier high quality. Director Christopher Cain does what he can so as to add some pep to a reasonably middle-of-the-road story. A lot of it’s rote and predictable and emulates different music movies you’ve seen. Whereas it does communicate to an precise problem all through the historical past of nation music and its battles with authenticity, the drama of the film struggles so as to add any actual nuance to the dialog.

For a singer, Strait himself is an honest sufficient actor, if not an incredible one. A few of his line supply is a bit flat at occasions, however he has sufficient pure charisma to make the efficiency largely work. It was additionally enjoyable to see Kyle Chandler in a small function because the antagonist roadie who tries to use the state of affairs when Dusty runs away from the tour to go discover himself.

The very best elements of the movie are seeing Dusty’s romance with Isabel Glasser‘s Harley. It’s a easy and candy romance about individuals attempting to be right down to earth. It’s written pretty plainly, however that’s not all the time a nasty factor. Glasser sells her gritty cowgirl effectively sufficient that her relationship with George feels pure. You imagine it when he sings the nice “Cross My Coronary heart” to shut the movie out, although that will have extra to do together with his singing chops than something concerning the movie.

Whereas Pure Nation dances round from Shreveport to small-town Texas to Las Vegas, Pure Nation remains to be a movie that stars Texas’s most profitable musical artist of all time. George Strait is likely one of the nice Texans, and the movie does have Cresson in it, which is sufficient to justify it as a north Texas film. It’s quite plain, however not the worst movie we’ve seen on this street journey.

Does anybody eat barbecue within the movie?

Not this time.

Texas Movie Chart

1. The Final Image Present
2. No Nation for Outdated Males
3. Hell or Excessive Water
4. Rushmore
5. A Ghost Story
6. Hud
7. Blood Easy
8. The Tree of Life
9. Boyhood
10. Paris, Texas
11. The Proper Stuff
12. Lone Star
13. Chef
14. Bernie
15. Big
16. North Dallas Forty
17. Apollo 13
18. The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath
19. Leadbelly
20. Krisha
21. Tender Mercies
22. Dazed and Confused
23. Dallas Purchaser’s Membership
24. JFK
25. The Sugarland Specific
26. Phrases of Endearment
27. City Cowboy
28. American Violet
29. The Finest Little Whorehouse in Texas
30. Planet Terror
31. Frank
32. Whip It
33. Pure Choice
34. That is The place We Reside
35. The Junction Boys
36. Pure Nation
37. The Alamo
38. Tune to Tune
39. Outlaw Blues
40. Selena
41. Nadine

Texas BBQ Chart

1. Franklin Barbecue
2. Evie Mae’s Pit Barbecue
3. Pinkerton’s Barbecue
4. Killen’s Barbecue
5. Cattleack Barbeque
6. Terry Black’s Barbecue
7. Pecan Lodge
8. Stiles Change BBQ
9. BBQ on the Brazos
10. Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ
11. Hutchins Barbeque
12. Joseph’s Riverport Bar-B-Que
13. Pody’s BBQ
14. Tyler’s Barbeque
15. Blue Moon BBQ
16. Corkscrew BBQ
17. 2M Smokehouse
18. Vera’s Yard Bar-B-Que
19. La Barbecue
20. Hays Co. Bar-B-Que
21. Roegels Barbecue
22. Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue
23. Smolik’s Smokehouse
24. Louie Mueller Barbecue
25. Miller’s Smokehouse
26. Lockhart Smokehouse
27. Heim Barbecue
28. Reality Barbeque
29. Fargo’s Pit BBQ
30. Gatlin’s BBQ
31. Metropolis Market
32. Baker Boys BBQ
33. Kreuz Meat Market
34. Stanley’s Well-known Pit BBQ
35. Micklethwait Craft Meats
36. Payne’s Bar-B-Q Shak
37. The Pit Room
38. Cooper’s Outdated Time Pit Bar-B-Que
39. The Smoking Oak
40. Heavy’s BBQ
41. Harris Bar-B-Que