Shout out to an EARLY Meatgistics Member!

[Jonathon]

So, I was looking through some stuff today on very early members (I wanted to see how long Austin had joined before I did and if there was a way to decrease his reputation and increase mine JK) and I noticed that NDKoze has been with us from the beginning, how close to the beginning? Well, Austin joined Meatgistics in Feb 2016 (before it was live) and NDKoze joined on July 16th which was actually the first day it was available for non employees to join! If I missed anyone else who is still pretty active and joined day 1 I apologize and you deserve credit too!

[NDKoze]

Thank for the acknowledgement! I originally found Walton’s Inc and started ordering my meet supplies well before this. The earliest receipt that I could find in my records was from February 2014, but I think I had some orders prior to that that I didn’t save.

I initially found Walton’s Inc in my search for the Excalibur Smokehouse BBQ Seasoning (which is still my favorite all-around BBQ Seasoning) and have been ordering all kinds of stuff from seasonings to equipment.

I am looking forward to the new grinders and mixers that you have coming!

Hopefully my family can harvest some deer this year to use all this great stuff!

NDKoze

[Tex_77]

Jonathon Austin sorry it took me so long to find this place.

[scott farm]

How many active members are there now?

[Chef]

Tex_77 Hey Tex, by societal norms, they owe you an apology for not going out and finding you. Okay, I’m just worked up with recent events…

[mikemikemike]

What a story.
Jonathon

Send this man a care package, he deserves it for being a pioneer member.

[Jonathon]

NDKoze Glad to have an original member and customer still with us!

[Jonathon]

mikemikemike We will certainly get him something!

[NDKoze]

Jonathon I just ran across this post again for some reason and remembered that there was supposed to be a “Care Package” or something coming.

Just kidding. You don’t have to send me anything. I have received much more value in knowledge since this whole thing started in 2016.

I don’t post a ton, but I do read quite a bit.

Thanks for all of the work that you guys do!

[Jonathon]

NDKoze Huh, that’s annoying, I just checked my email and I have stuff from you from 2016 (I think when I was in customer service!) but I never followed up on it! Gonna email you again, sorry! And Tex_77 you SHOULD be sorry, your the Team-Blue General, you should have been a day 1er!

[Tex_77]

I got here as fast as i could.

[NDKoze]

Yeah, I used to ask a lot of questions to customer service before we had this community. You guys were always so helpful.

I have sent many people your way over the years especially via the http://www.smokinitforums.com/ product form (for Smokin-It Smokers) where I am a moderator.

[Jonathon]

NDKoze Well, we appreciate all your support. I’ve been a part of things that are growing and things that aren’t and MAN is it more fun (also more work) when things are growing than stagnant or on the way down!

[PapaSop]

This is now the second post I don’t recall seeing before. Probably an age thing.
Congrats NDKoze . Since day 1… Awesome. Prompted me to look back and seen I joined in Dec. 2017. That was after a couple months of watching videos and looking around the site. Was originally searching a summer sausage how to, found Walton’s and the rest is history.

Great place, great people and vast amounts of knowledge.

Even General Blue, Tex_77, has been great fun.

Gotta throw an Orange cap out there…

[NDKoze]

This is interesting, because I am pretty sure that while Meatgistics didn’t get started until 2016, I was buying stuff from Walton’s several years before that.