Had a few beers at the Saucer tonight – Elvis night pic coming in the next post. Tonight’s drunk food after wandering home is beef jerky from J.R.’s BBQ.
Good Ol’ J.R. (Jim Ross) is the lead announcer on pro wrestling’s WWE Monday Night Raw, along with a color commentator Memphians may have heard of, Jerry “The King” Lawler. When I was a teenager growing up in Little Rock in the 1980s, Jim Ross was the lead announcer for Mid-South Wrestling featuring up-and-coming names like The Junkyard Dog, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, Nikolai Volkoff, Ted DiBiase, as well as a 19-year-old kid named Shawn Michaels who lost every week.
So J.R. hit the big time, has been the WWE’s top announcer for years and years, and recently opened a BBQ restaurant in Norman, OK. He has a few to-go items, and I ordered a six-pack of his beef jerky. They arrived today and I tried all four varieties tonight – Original, Peppered, Chipotle, and Slobberknocker Heat. I would like to pronounce the Chipotle my favorite. Glad I ordered two packs of that one.