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As I got ready for work this morning, I made a mental list of the errands I needed to run over lunch today.

1. Go to bank and deposit a chack and withdraw cash for upcoming vacation.
2. Go to the BMV to pay for the registration on my wife's vehicle.
3. Go to the post office and mail 88 his case of BBQ sauce he bought.

I cruise through the morning and head off to the bank for the first stop. I get to the door while reading a message on my phone and damned if I don't just about pull my arm out of socket when I try to open th elocked door. Kind of like when you are walking down a flight of stairs in the dark and you think there is one more step. As George Carlin said, when this happens, your hips somehow end up in your chest. So I look at the door and sure enough, there's the "President's Day Closed on 2/19" sign. Fuck.

So I head to the BMV, still with my head up my ass apparently, and I get there and promply notice the place is shut down. Fuck. It's at this point it finally clicks to me that I may as well not waste my time driving to the post office to mail the BBQ saice to 88.

So I head home to eat lunch like I normally do. What the fuck do I do when I step out of my car? I check the mail like I always do over lunch. Back to dumbass.

I know a lot of this is self deprecating, but hey, that's my thing around here. Anyone else ever have one of those days where you can't seem to do jack shit right? Thankfully, I have a meeting with my accountant this evening for my taxes. If I did them myself today, I'd probaby get the audit of a lifetime...

Goddammit, Indy..!! You've got me pissed off.
You remind me of that bull headed son of a bitch Teddy Roosevelt
I'm gonna haunt your trailer tonight.

- Harry Truman

Fuck President's Day...is this a day to honor Monica Lewinsky or Marilyn Monroe?

I make and sell it. Threw it out here one time and those who have tried it tend to want more.

Click

Indy, if you ever wanna redesign your bottle label, I am willing!

I'll can throw a design together too and I won't charge you either. Well, maybe send a few jars of sauce up my way...can't do it entirely for free.

I am open for suggestions. I'll be the first to say, the package doesn't scream "fucking buy me!" and that's the first step in getting someone to try your product. The way it has worked for me, once I can get someone to try, they buy. It's good shit.

Anyhow, like I said, I'm open for suggestions. I'm not putting a ton of money into this business until I get my house paid off which will be in the next 18 months. There's a lot I want to change about my label.

Shoalzie wrote:I'll can throw a design together too and I won't charge you either. Well, maybe send a few jars of sauce up my way...can't do it entirely for free.

Patsy's Bodacious Tata BBQ?

I wrangled with all kinds of names for the sauce too. Here's what I thought of...but shot them all down.

Brent's Special Sauce
Brent's Meat Sauce
3-B-Q Sauce
Tribeque Sauce
Weekend Griller's Sauce
Master Basters Sauce (my fave but I wanted to keep it family oriented)
Professional Griller's Sauce

Like I said, in the next year or so, I will devote a lot more to this business. In the meantime, I just sell locally and am building a checking account slowly. I will invest uch more later on.

Shoalzie wrote:I'll can throw a design together too and I won't charge you either. Well, maybe send a few jars of sauce up my way...can't do it entirely for free.

Oh, it's on.


;)

IndyFrisco wrote: Master Basters Sauce

a winner.

IndyFrisco wrote:
I know a lot of this is self deprecating, but hey, that's my thing around here.

Self-defecating is a good thing.

Sin
OutClosetmike.

Yep, The BBQ Sauce is 100% addicting and I'm ready for a reorder. The sauce sells itself.
Labels?
I don't need no stinking labels.

War Wagon wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:
I know a lot of this is self deprecating, but hey, that's my thing around here.

Self-defecating is a good thing.

Sin
OutClosetmike.

Kramerwagon: Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a fucking dildo up your ass. You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherfucker. Throw his ass out. He's a fag! He's a fag! He's a fag! A fag, look, there's a fag! Great, they're going to arrest me for calling OCmike a fag.

Jsc810 wrote:

IndyFrisco wrote:88 his case of BBQ sauce he bought.

Details about this, please. It was probably was in a thread somewhere, but if I saw it then I don't remember it now. What brand of BBQ sauce? Or is this something you made, or what?

I highly recommend you order the Hot version of the three types he sells. It's damn good stuff and he sells it at a very reasonable price. Now that I have 3 propane tanks and a new bbq grill thermometer that actually works, my next batch of ribs will be even more epoch. I can't wait for my shipment of Tony Chachere's "More Spice Seasoning" to arrive in a few days. I just need to buy a rib rack as people tend to show up unexpected and mow those ribs down to where I only get a few after hours of "work" (drinking beer).

Rib rack. Aisle 4 on the right. 3/4 of the way down on the third shelf on the left at the Home Depot.

IndyFrisco wrote:I wrangled with all kinds of names for the sauce too.

I got an :idea: for you product, Brent.



Pardner's Big 10 Folk Sauce

I keep hearing how addicting this sauce is. There’s not much out there that is more addicting than heroin, so you might incorporate one of the nicknames for heroin.

My first choice would be Wild Horse BBQ Sauce, but it looks like there’s a couple of Wild Horse BBQs around the country, so you’d have to find out if it’s copyrighted or not.

Another name for heroin is smack, so you could go with Smack My Ass BBQ Sauce. Or maybe Brent’s Nasty Junk Sauce.

Or maybe, you could play on the term “jonesing” (to want something very much), and at the same time honor one of our own and just call it BBQ Jones.

Heh...I like the "jonesing". There is going to be a name and a slogan. Currently, name is Brent's BBQ Sauce (lame) and the slogan is "Texan Inspired...Hoosier Approved".

Both of those need to change.

IndyFrisco wrote:Heh...I like the "jonesing". There is going to be a name and a slogan. Currently, name is Brent's BBQ Sauce (lame) and the slogan is "Texan Inspired...Hoosier Approved".

Both of those need to change.

How about this for a slogan "From Our Pots to the Heartland".

And above it put a picture of a big ass roaring bonfire.

And above that, call that bad boy Brent's 5-Alarm BBQ Sauce

I know you were trolling, but I actually like the idea of putting a Bonfire in the background.

Shoalzie and Patsy, if you're still reading and actually putting something together, Bonfire it is.

Google an image with "A&M Bonfire" and you will see the "wedding cake" style Bonfires we made.

Rack it, BSmack. Thanks for the idea.

But wait...does A&M have the patent on a picture of a bonfire? (That's for you U&L Squawk fans) ;)

It was nice to not have as much traffic getting to and from work yesterday.

Way to unhijack the thread Mucho.

IndyFrisco wrote:I know you were trolling, but I actually like the idea of putting a Bonfire in the background.

Shoalzie and Patsy, if you're still reading and actually putting something together, Bonfire it is.

Google an image with "A&M Bonfire" and you will see the "wedding cake" style Bonfires we made.

Rack it, BSmack. Thanks for the idea.

I seriously was not trolling. Shit just came to me like a vision.

Wakin' and bakin' again huh ?

Perfect. even has the outhouse on the top.

I like it.

Bonfire BBQ Sauce.

No Aggies were killed in the making of this sauce.

OK, here's a real rough draft of my idea.

Goober McTuber wrote:No Aggies were killed in the making of this sauce.

How can this effort sit there for a whole hour getting no love?


RACK!

BSmack wrote:OK, here's a real rough draft of my idea.

I like the bonfire idea, but I don’t get the slogan. He’s already in the Heartland. And he needs to get the name Brent off there. No offense, but that doesn’t sound like a BBQ god’s name. And 5 Alarm sounds like it’s really hot. You’d have to have different names for the medium and the mild.

BSmack,

I like it. At A&M, when we built Bonfire, we called our hard hats "pots" as well. Did you know that or just coincidence with the slogan?

I liked the name Bonfire BBQ Sauce.

Mild could have a name.
Medium could have a name.
Hot could be 5 Alarm.

Need a name for Mild and Medium as Goobs said.

Also, yeah, I want the name "Brent" off of it. My name isn't worthy to be on this good shit. :P

Dang, I soooooo want to drop some "Burning Hot Aggie Sauce" smack, but since that's where my nephew accepted the music scholarship to attend, that might be some sort of karma-infraction.

OK, here' draft #2



I think this looks a little better. Not that the Patsys or ppanthers of the world couldn't blow it out of the water.

This is for the hot version. Medium and mild would not have the 5 Alarm on it.

Oh, and I did know about the "Pots" at A&M. Saw them working on the Bonfire in 99 while I was down there on business. The play on words was very deliberate.

Bonfire idea is cool. I have ideas. I will work on this stuff after work.

I was thinking more of a bad ass illustration approach, not a photograph.

Lemme know the final name and slogan by EOD!

Thanks in advance.

BSmack wrote:Oh, and I did know about the "Pots" at A&M. Saw them working on the Bonfire in 99 while I was down there on business. The play on words was very deliberate.

Listening to tutorials on hardhats from people working on a novelty at a university is pretty funny.

Snot-nosed college kids probably don't know the whole deal about "gangsta/workingman's" hats versus the White Hats, and the whole turning-the-innards around dealio.


Leave the hardhat references out.

I don't live in the heartland. Does this mean I don't get any?

Mild = Smooth
Medium = saucy
Hot = 5 alarm

Dinsdale wrote:

BSmack wrote:Oh, and I did know about the "Pots" at A&M. Saw them working on the Bonfire in 99 while I was down there on business. The play on words was very deliberate.

Listening to tutorials on hardhats from people working on a novelty at a university is pretty funny.

Snot-nosed college kids probably don't know the whole deal about "gangsta/workingman's" hats versus the White Hats, and the whole turning-the-innards around dealio. Leave the hardhat references out.

WTF are you talking about?