An Investigation: Where Did This Rand Paul Story Actually Take Place?
“So I’m down here and I’m in line for barbecue…”
by Andrew Kaczynski
posted on May. 18, 2015, at 3:02 p.m.
Speaking in Texas in 2014, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul relayed an incident that he said occurred at a barbecue in the Lone Star state.
Said Paul:
“The one thing Texas has that’s hard for the rest of the country to compete with is barbecue. So I’m down here and I’m in line for barbecue and the guy in front of me has got two big plates of barbecue. And I’m like, ‘You’re not going to live very long eating like that.’ And he looked at me and he said, ‘Well my granddad lived to be 105.’ And I said, ‘Well your granddad didn’t live to be 105 eating like that.’ And he said, ‘No, my granddad lived to be 105 by minding his own business.’”
Rand Paul has told a variation of this story in several other states, BuzzFeed News has found, with the details of the story changing slightly each time.
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