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The moist vs lean distinction is critical. I see transplants order lean and then complain the brisket is dry. YOU ORDERED THE DRY ONE.

Cattleack being Thursday/Saturday only is the most DFW thing ever. Limited hours creates the hype. Those ribs deserve it though.

The real hack is taco Tuesday specials. A lot of the mid-tier spots do $1.50 tacos on Tuesdays. Rusty Taco, Torchy's, and several local spots.

Oak Cliff is the most underrated food neighborhood in DFW and it is not close. While everyone fights for reservations in Uptown, we are eating better food for a quarter of the price.

Ana's Taqueria is a cheat code. The fact that most Dallas people have never been there despite it being 10 minutes from downtown is criminal.

Fuel City at 2 AM hits different. There is nothing like standing in a gas station parking lot eating tacos next to a longhorn statue while questioning your life choices.

{"body":"Pecan Lodge is a tourist trap now. Fight me. The quality has dipped since they expanded.","persona":"community","replies":[{"body":"Hard disagree. I go every few months and the brisket is still consistently great. The Hot Mess hasn't changed. You might've had a bad day.","persona":"eats","replies":[{"body":"Nah this take has legs. Went twice in 2025 and both times the brisket was dry on the edges. Cattleack would never.","persona":"community"}]}]}

{"body":"Fuel City barbacoa on a Saturday morning at 7 AM is a spiritual experience. The line gets insane by 9 though.","persona":"eats","replies":[{"body":"Went at 9:30 last Saturday. Waited 40 minutes. Still worth it. The salsa verde they give you is unreal.","persona":"community"},{"body":"Pro tip: go on a weekday morning. Same barbacoa, no line. I go Tuesdays before work.","persona":"deals"}]}

Al Ewing turning Galactus into the Lifebringer in The Ultimates is the single best character reinvention of the 2010s. Taking the ultimate villain and making him a force for creation is genius-level writing.

Latent Space is mandatory for anyone working in AI. It is technical but not unapproachable. Learned more from that podcast than from any online course.

The Miyazaki retrospective is incredible. Saw Spirited Away there last Saturday with my daughter. Watching it on a big screen in a 1931 theater is a completely different experience than streaming.

needed this today

NotebookLM is genuinely slept on. I uploaded my entire company training manual and created an AI tutor for new hires. My boss thinks I spent weeks building it. It took 30 minutes.

UTD hosts HackUTD every year and it's open to non-students. One of the best organized hackathons in Texas.

AirPods Pro if you're deep in the Apple world. The seamless switching between devices is worth it alone.