A Feed Lot BBQ pop-up at AJ’s Soda Shop

When I walked up to the Feed Lot BBQ Co. pop-up at AJ’s Soda Shop on Oct. 25, about 35 minutes after it started, pitmaster Kyle Cross told me he had already run out of jackalope eggs. People had been talking about them on the Facebook post announcing the pop-up, he said, and they went almost immediately.

I ordered a combination plate of smoked brisket and pulled pork, with baked beans, coleslaw and a smoked, bacon-wrapped Oreo as a bonus. I had sampled Feed Lot’s food at another event, and Cross’s brisket is as good as or better than any place I have tried, maybe outside of Texas. It gives Texas smoked brisket a run for its money.