In a 2020 Zoom forum with top-flight international food bloggers, Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico spoke of “dismantling” Texas barbecue, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change.
In the same forum, Talarico compared Texas' world-famous brisket to “cassette tapes,” saying its appeal was "not gonna last.”
Video footage reviewed by Crimson Comedy Club validates that Talarico suggested that Black and Latino Texans didn't like brisket, while offering as an aside that his analysis was based on data provided by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and that he couldn't offer any anecdotal evidence on the matter as his circle of friends only encompassed white, liberal, fellow teenage-looking males.
However, Talarico argued his case forcefully in the face of criticism from a gang of Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay acolytes who argued that foodies worldwide travel to Texas to taste its brisket, and that the best-rated brisket joint in Texas was founded by Texas Latinos.
The discovery of Talarico's comments follows the discovery by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski of Talarico bashing Texas' oil industry in exactly the same terms, proving an apparent 2020-era reliance by Talarico on a series of rote, memorized metaphors that definitely would have caused him to fall below a 90th percentile score on a Writing SAT II college applications test.
That use of rote, memorized metaphors as a crutch apparently continues today, as Talarico replied to Crimson Comedy Club with a virtual cut, copy and paste of his response to Kaczynski regarding his oil and gas comments.
"These comments about brisket were cringey, and missed the mark," Talarico personally emailed us, adding that "I am a capitalist who supports brisket and actually eats it for three meals a day, plus twice-a-day snacks."
According to Kaczynski, Talarico's campaign told CNN that "his 'cringey,' past comments 'missed the mark,' and he's a capitalist who supports oil and gas."
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