Kevin Mason’s barbecue business began from the trunk of his patrol car. The Houston native was stuffing and smoking sausages at home, and then selling them to fellow Harris County sheriff’s department officers with their own coolers at the ready. Word spread, and more orders came in that required delivery to strangers. “I was always afraid to go back to the areas I patrolled to sell sausage,” Mason admits, but he never encountered a problem. Soon after, folks found him on Facebook and would peer into the large front window of his house looking for their fix. “I had people knocking on the front door for sausage,” he said, so he figured it was time to move his operation. In 2016, Lonestar Sausage & BBQ…View Original PostThe post A Former Police Officer Finds His Calling with Lonestar Sausage & BBQ appeared first on Texas Monthly.