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“The World Championship Barbecue Goat Cook-off” is a wonderful string of words—twelve luxurious syllables that would feel cramped were they not so evenly arranged. Say them slowly and feel how they naturally group themselves into place. The world. Championship. Barbecue. Goat. Cook. Off. Even sped up—worldchampionshipbarbecuegoatcookoff—and pronounced with an exaggerated twang, the words flow off the tongue like Dr Pepper from the soda fountain of a Central Texas Sonic. It is music to my ears. I doubt anyone but me has so romanticized the name of this annual festival, which has taken place in Brady, the city closest to the geographical center of the state, every Labor Day weekend since 1974. (To be clear, the goat served at the cook-off is not technically a true South…

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