Now there's another "fact" that would make my Dad proud. Somewhere way back, I read that Texas BBQ as we know it was invented by Germans. Supposedly a butcher shop in New Braunfels started slow-cooking meat over mesquite and came up with what Central Texas calls BBQ. They even invented serving it on brown butcher paper.
I've made a pilgrimage to Coopers in Llano to eat under W's picture. KYHillChick has down there that sends it to us as a Christmas Present.
Whoever it was who invented it Im thankful. My adopted grand dad's cousins over in Lockhart had good BBQ back in the day. They were all Kreuz's!
Prolly wasn't mesquite they were slow cooking with. But that's ok.