BBQ Article

Here is a good article that appeared on a Bar-B-Q site called bbqcrashcourse.com:

http://www.bbqcrashcourse.com/pages/texas_longhorns

It has some good and interesting comments in it. I still, after reading it, am amazed when I hear people claim that "there is no such thing as a pure longhorn", or "nobody can say what traits are longhorn traits", and worse, these comments are coming from Longhorn registries! Frankly, if I were new to Longhorns and I was interested in starting a Longhorn herd, I would stay away from a registry that claimed that "you can't know what a true longhorn is", or one that obviously and openly registers cattle that are mixed bloods with evident traits of other cattle. For example, many of the "registered" longhorns you see as you drive through Central Texas have obvious Watusi or other African cattle blood, but there are Longhorn registries that have no problem registering these animals as Longhorns.

That takes me a long way from the discussion about BBQ, but if one of the traits of a true and pure Longhorn is the superior quality of the beef (and it is), then keeping the Longhorns pure ought to be of great importance to those of us who want good Longhorns and good beef.

Michael Bunker