OK going to Cooper's (Llano) first time, help?

[Brisketexan]

Funny that the sausage at Cotten's in Robstown got a mention. I hadn't been there for at least 15 years, then went last summer, and got sausage with my meal. Then ordered another link for dessert. It let me know that there are THREE types of sausage in Texas.

1 -- the crumbly, more german kind, like at City Market and Kreuz's.

2 -- the more dense, ekrich-y type -- see Cooper's, Rudy's, etc.

3 -- the Cottens type -- bigger chunks of meat in the sausage, dense, and salty. It reminded me almost EXACTLY of linguica sausage, which is the standard link sausage in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.

I had many a great snack in Argentina, getting a choripan (a link of their sausage on a small french roll) and a Quilmes beer. Cotten's sausage totally reminded me of that.

Glad to hear that your Cooper's experience was everything you'd hoped. And yeah, I usually spend nearly $40 when I go, but I have plenty left over both as a cold dinner on the ride home (after fishing the river all day), and then even some chop to leave in the fridge for my wife -- she loves their chop, even though she's never actually been.

For my birthday dinner this year, I think we'll all head out from church on Sunday, and drive to Llano for the meal that I really want. Luby's can kiss my ***.

 

[SouthernSooner]

Lord I love Coopers. I order almost identically to Briskettexas and TXSooner. Big Chop, brisket, cabrito, 1/2 link and then load up on the sauce and beans inside.

Without a doubt one of the best days in my life was back about six years ago when I lived in Dallas and drove out to Brownwood to a friend's ranch. We got up early the next morning and left Brownwood before sunrise and headed south to fish the Llano all morning. We caught a bunch of bass, got a good sunburn and hit Coopers around Noon (my first trip ever). I had a Big Chop and some brisket and a dozen iced teas. Completely stuffed, we jumped in the truck and headed back north t to fish the San Saba River near Voca. We caught some bass on the San Saba and left around 5:00PM for our return to Brownwood to lock up and then headed back to Big D.

On the ride home, we determined that we were hungry again so we exited I-20 onto Hwy. 16 for the short trip north to Mary's Cafe in Strawn, TX. I had a medium CFS with all the trimmings (best CFS in the world, bar none). A couple of cold Shiner drafts and we piled back in the suburban for the trip back to Dallas hell.

We determined that each of us had caught about 30-40 bass that day and consumed about 20,000 calories each at my two favorites restaurants in the world - Cooper's and Mary's Cafe. A fine day indeed...

 

[Beamwalker]

Next time I go to Austin, I'm making a side trip to llano. I've been waffling back and forth, but after reading this I just have to. I used to work out there a lot when I lived in Austin and would get to go to coopers about once and month. Oh how I was spoiled. Why is there no good bbq in houston? why?