Creator of “The Man” Dies in Seattle
March 2, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 2 Comments
A good friend, Gene Porter, died in Seattle this week. If you’ve been to Dixie’s Bar-b-que in Bellevue, WA (underneath 520), then you’ve met Gene. He met nearly every customer in his garage-turned-restaurant and encouraged us to “meet the man!” The man, of course, was his homemade bar-b-que sauce which was so hot that it rendered your taste-buds nearly incapacitated. I can deal with pretty hot food, and just a toothpick taste was painful.
Just a few months ago, I talked to him in his wheel chair, sitting in the back of the restaurant. Such contrast from the vibrant, loud, in-you-face restaurateur we all willingly paid to torture us.
Goodbye Gene. We’ll miss you.
“Yeah baby!”
Charles Boling said...
Rrrrrrrats, I put off taking my family there too long… (We no longer live up there, but have visited a couple of times.) Gene was a hoot! Love that guy!
When you “meet the man” you don’t just do a toothpick, though — go for a double scoop! Once your pain reaches a certain point it can’t get any worse, so since you’re already past the point of blindness you might as well impress your friends!
March 3, 2010 9:47 am #
Jared Tanner said...
That’s sad news. I was a missionary in Seattle and got to “meet the man.” He usually approached the missionaries with his little pot of hot sauce and asked, “You a deacon or a preacher?!” Great hot sauce and great Bar-b-que.
April 11, 2010 5:50 am #