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K-H-O-U brisket prices up 30% over the last year or about a dollar twenty a pound.

K-H-O-U talks to our friend Russ Riegel with the inside scoop.

Now the one thing we've all noticed about brisket sadly is the prices have been going up a bit.

What have you noticed like if you're heading to the AGB?

What have you seen about prices?

Well the market has been driven up just by people wanting brisket for one and plus the drought that we've had over the past year

brisket's gone up just on the the retail side about a dollar twenty a pound

which is about 30 percent okay so these days about four pounds is? Yeah, for a choice briskie. And some 20

hours later this is what the finished product looks like. Oh my God looks so

delicious like you can melt in your mouth.

But tell me this like 30% price increase, has that affected your customers?

Yeah, definitely it affects our customers.

Some people we price out of the market, some people can't afford the brisket anymore

but we try to give them other options and the way we do that on our menu is you

we put our cheaper options up top and people read down so hopefully they'll find something that they want

within their price range before they get to the high dollar brisket.

But the bottom line is that this is Texas and people are still going to eat brisket no matter what it

costs. That the dang truth. Before we talk about the brisket I just like to take a

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