Dublin Cherry Limeade Soda. It’s made with pure cane sugar and it’s made by Dublin, you know it’s good! Bubbly, great carbonation and has a delightful, refreshing sweet cherry flavor with a hint of lime in each sip (or shall I say gulp?!) It wasn’t too sweet, which is what made it so refreshing. It would be a great addition to any occasion and adds fun and color. Cute retro design also. One of my new favorites in the soda world. What's your favorite Dublin soda?! Rated 4.9-5. -A

Triple XXX Root Beer. Dublin Bottling Works is alive and well in Dublin, Texas. Home of the Original Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant! They have been bottling sodas for more than 120 years at the oldest soda bottling facility in the State of Texas. They are a family-owned company. This root beer tasted good. It is made with pure cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. It has a nice crisp and clean taste to it that you don’t find with syrup sodas. It had a good carbonation to it and was one of the better root beer sodas I have had. Rated 4.79 out of 5-D

Tommy’s Fire Roasted Corn and Black Bean Salsa out of Austin, TX. Unfortunately, I thought this salsa lacked a lot in texture and flavor. It was such a shame because I really wanted to like this salsa. It was sweeter and watery than I had hoped and expected, and there was very little variety in ingredients that were mixed in the salsa. When I think of corn and black bean salsa, I want lots of corn and black beans in it. It was more tomato based/puree than anything. I was really hoping that it would have been more flavorful, but it is a newer flavor of theirs, so maybe they are still working out the kinks, or maybe it was a bad batch. I do, however, look forward to trying their other products since they are a Go Texan product! 2.7 outta 5.-A
Tommy’s Foods out of Austin Texas. Tommy’s Fire Roasted Black Bean and Corn Salsa. This company uses all natural ingredients and the freshest produce available in the Lone Star State. I personally think this salsa was too sweet, even with the roasted organic pasilla chiles in this salsa. The black beans were very small and very little pieces of corn. I think this salsa wasn’t thick enough. It did have an ok flavor. Kind of disappointed with this salsa. Hope some of the other products from Tommy’s Foods we review I will like better. Rated 3 out of 5-D

Texas Chili Company out of Fort Worth Texas. Texas Chili Company began doing business in 1952, making "brick" chili from an old recipe. Chili was prepared and filled into a rectangular "brick shaped" pan and frozen, thus the name brick chili. This chili tasted good. It had a nice ground beef flavor and had a slight spice to it. Each piece of beef had a different size. It would be great on hot dogs and chili fries. I like the ease of just heating it up and serving. Rated 4.35 outta 5 –D and A

Nolan Ryan’s beef sausages out of Huntsville Texas. The beef sausages were good. They had a dense bite and good quality beef. Nice casing and it had a decent hickory smoke flavor to it. The sausage was juicy and had a nice slight pepper taste. A good basic smoked sausage. Rated 4 outta 5 –D and A

Cooper’s bbq beef ribs and brisket again were great (for more in depth review of the Beef Rib and Brisket see our prior review on August 4 2012) The stars of this visit were the Jalapeno Sausage and the Blackberry Cobbler. First up was the Jalapeno sausage. It had a great taste and lots of jalapeno flavor. Great quality meat and good smoky flavor. They had a good casing and it was very juicy. Id rate these sausages a 4.85 outta of 5.
Cooper’s Old Time Pit BBQ located in the Fort Worth Stockyards. We are definitely fans of Cooper’s! We of course had gotten the brisket and beef ribs like we did in our previous review of Cooper’s. And of course they taste delicious as usual! We had also gotten the jalapeno smoked sausage that was great tasting, super juicy and flavor packed! And of course there was a little kick from the chunks of jalapeno packed into each and every bite. Though we aren't a fan of their sauce, (mainly because they season their meat so well it doesn't need it) their sauce really complimented the jalapeno sausage perfectly. YUM! We also tried the macaroni and cheese for a side along with the beans that you help yourself to. The macaroni was basic, cafeteria style mac and cheese you would expect to find, the focus is definitely on the meat here! 4.95-5 -A

We had the blackberry cobbler for desert. Their cobbler was some of the best I have ever had. It tasted homemade; it was loaded with blackberries, just enough sweetness in the dough and blackberries that really bring everything out. I have a soft spot for blackberry cobbler, and can be a bit picky on its taste, so Cooper’s definitely has thumbs up from me for it! 4.95-5 -A
Blackberry cobbler. It had a great fresh blackberry taste. The crust of the cobbler was nice and doughy and had a great sweet taste to it. I highly recommend you try the blackberry cobbler if you go to Cooper’s. Blackberry Cobbler rated 5 outta 5. -D