In picking a career in barbecue over a cushy job as a supervisor at an East Texas gas plant, Clyde Osborn chose the harder path. Last year a different company started running the gas plant and offered Osborn a lower salary. “I was looking for a reason anyway,” Osborn said about his decision to quit. He said, “I told my wife, ‘If we’re gonna take a pay cut, let’s make it our own pay cut and see what happens.’” They decided their business, East TX Rust BBQ, would no longer be a weekend hobby.You might remember Osborn from a couple years ago when I covered the crowded barbecue field in the small town of Winnsboro. (Of the three joints in the article, only The Barrel…
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