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by | January 3, 2018 · 4:46 pm

Chicken Thang Event Benefits MS Feb 11

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Tickets for the first ever Chicken Thang, brought to you by Meat Fight, Inc., will go on sale Tuesday, January 2nd at 10 a.m. through Prekindle.com.

What is Chicken Thang? Easy. It’s a fried chicken competition. For charity. You should come. Let’s do some good for other people while we stuff our faces with fried chicken. It’s the clearest win-win ever.

The ten Dallas chefs competing for the Best Fried Chicken trophy include, but aren’t limited to: badass Jeff Bekavac of Neighborhood Services, kickass Sandra Bussey of Chicken Moto, wonderbeard Jeffery Hobbs of Slow Bone BBQ, and Jeana Johnson of Mockingbird Diner. Continue reading →

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by | September 29, 2017 · 8:09 am

Meat Fight Tickets Go On Sale Oct 3rd

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Tickets for the 8th Annual Meat Fight go on sale Tuesday, October 3rd at 10 a.m. Be sure to set a reminder, as tickets for the meaty charity event sold out last year in under one hour.

Meat Fight is a Texas barbecue competition with a tradition of awarding bronzed beer-can trophies and raising cash for the National MS Society. “This year, Meat Fight is going to be bigger than ever before,” says Alice Laussade, CEO of Meat Fight, Inc. “We’re featuring 20 of Dallas’ best chefs in the main fight, plus 9 more chefs in our beefy VIP Side Show competition—and we’re adding a whole new competition to the mix for all attendees. It’s called Sweet Fight. Our friends at Whole Foods are presenting that, and the category for competition this year is pie. It’s gonna be so great.” Continue reading →

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by | September 30, 2016 · 11:30 am

Meat Fight Tickets Will Sell Out at 10:01AM October 4th

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Tickets for the 7th Annual Meat Fight go on sale Tuesday, October 4th at 10 a.m. Be sure to set a reminder, as tickets for the meaty charity event sold out last year in under one hour.  

Meat Fight is a Texas barbecue competition featuring 16 of Dallas’ best chefs, with 100% of tickets sales benefitting the National MS Society and people living with MS in our area. Last year’s event raised over $150,000.   Continue reading →

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by | November 12, 2015 · 9:28 am

Meat Fight Rescue: 7 Meaty Alternatives

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Meat Fight is upon us, and it would seem every decent barbecue Generalísimo will be either working or judging the event this Sunday. You know you didn’t get a ticket, we didn’t either. Our fingers are just not fast enough to score a ticket as they sell out extremely fast. Regardless, it is a fantastic event that started as a small backyard brouhaha to raise a few bucks for National MS Society by the Observer James Beard award winning writer and Cheap Bastard, Alice Laussade. The event has raised $170,ooo since its grass roots inception for this cause. What makes Meat Fight even better is that 100% of funds raised goes to the MS research to eradicate the disease.

We know you are kicking yourself for not securing a ticket in a timely manner. Who wants to miss out on all that meatiness? We have some resolve for you. We have a list of what to do if you didn’t score a Meat Fight ticket.   Continue reading →

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by | December 25, 2014 · 11:51 am

Holiday Vignettes: Alice Lassaude

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Alice Laussade is a James Beard nominated food writer in Dallas, working for the Dallas Observer some times under the nom de plume Cheap Bastard. Her legendary wit and outrageous deadpan style has garnered her an enormous following. Alice also hosts the Annual Meat Fight which has become a cult event which raises money and awareness for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Today Alice shares memories of holidays past.   Continue reading →

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by | November 18, 2013 · 2:18 pm

Meat Fight Madness In Trinity Groves A Beefy Success

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Meat Fight 2013 sold out in mere minutes. The is the beefy extravaganza that took place last night at Four Corners Brewing Company and is the brainchild of one Alice and Mike Laussade. You know her as the award winning  columnist for the Dallas Observer. The event raise $50,000 that will be sent to National MS Society for research into that cause. The chefs that participated were strong and broken into competing teams made up of Brian C. Luscher, Jeana Johnson, Jeff Bekavac, Omar Flores, Chad Houser, David Uygur, Jeffery C. Hobbs, Anastacia Quinones, Tiffany Derry, Nathan Tate, Eric Dreyer, Cody Sharp, all hot-shot meat experts from the Dallas area.

I was excited to get a call a mere few moments before the sold out event started from Jon Alexis from TJ’s Seafood Market who invited me to use one of his tickets that opened up suddenly. Alexis supplied the salmon, which was used as a wild card category for the evening.    Continue reading →

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by | September 30, 2013 · 4:43 pm

Meat Fight Bingo Night At Hypnotic Donuts

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Hypnotic Donuts has a new spin to their BYOB Bingo night.  Hypnotic Donuts will team up with Meat Fight to do a one night only special edition BYOB Bingo.   The night will include the typical BYOB shenanigans but with some meaty enhancements. In addition to James St. Peter calling the bingo games there will be VIP guests bingo callers: Alice Laussade (The Cheap Bastard), Chad Houser of Café Momentum , Brian Luscher of The Grape and Jon Alexis of TJ’s Seafood. Tiffany Derry will be attending the event and might decide to call a game as well.

Prizes will be greatly enhanced to include Meat Fight swag, and bottles of wine form Urban Vines Bistro. The overall winner will receive two tickets to attend Meat Fight (this will be the only pair of Meat Fight tickets available after they instantly sell out once they go on sale).     Continue reading →

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