Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:45 AM click to enlarge Photo Courtesy The Turkey Leg Hut The Turkey Leg Hut is bringing its signature menu item to the 210 next weekend. If a turkey stuffed with other, smaller fowl is called a turducken, what would you call a turkey leg stuffed with macaroni and cheese? A tiny bit excessive” might be one label for it. Just the same, the owners of Houston s Turkey Leg Hut food trucks decided not to mess around with cute names for their signature menu item. They call it exactly what it is and they’re bringing it to San Antonio on the weekend of June 11-13.
Turkey Leg Hut has become a bastion of Houston’s Black culture and a gentrification lightning rod Kayla Stewart In Houston’s Third Ward, a red sign plastered with two smiling Black faces stands above a seemingly never-ending line of guests waiting for smoked turkey legs, fried boudin balls and bananas foster waffles. In just four years, this byproduct of Houston’s Black culture and ingenuity has become one of the city’s most popular restaurants, one turkey leg at a time.
Turkey Leg Hut has become much more than the long lines that have come to define the restaurant. Its rapid success has also made it a lightning rod for racially tinged conflicts over gentrification.