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Owners Bo and Bridget Blanton

After dating in high school, Bo and Bridget reconnected and fell in love in 2010. They married, becoming the Blanton family. Bo works for a local law enforcement agency as a lieutenant. Bridget is a Senior Vice President of Healthcare for a national wholesale insurance brokerage. Bo began his love of smoking various meats back in 2011. After working long night shifts, he and some colleagues started experimenting with smoking meats in the backyard. Beginning with only a small smoker and a small electric smoker, he found satisfaction with his results. Bo and Bridget quickly coined the name “Smokin’ Secrets” that year.

Not long after, he and his buddies started entering BBQ competitions and won their first trophy in 2012 by placing 3rd in smoked chicken entries. The next year they improved, placing 3rd in the pulled pork category, 2nd in both smoked ribs and chicken and as Grand Champions overall. Bo and one of his best friends, Frank White, became a two-man winning team. Meanwhile, Bridget and her best friend Tina Berry began making barbecue sauce. Bridget’s grandfather always made a traditional beer barbecue sauce; together these ladies developed their own version entirely from scratch. Now “Bulldogger’s Sweet Heat Meat Gravy” has become the favorite of many. Continuing their venture, the men became BBQ champions in three consecutive years from 2016-2018 at the Wakulla County Swine Show. Not many men could claim their proudest moment came in 2018, being named “Best Butt in the South.” The trophy stood taller than Bridget.
 

After ten years in competitive barbeque, as well as cooking for various fundraising and charity events and multiple family and friends’ events, it was time for the next step. Bo and Bridget were licensed, insured and incorporated in 2022. Their first subsequent large catering event fed all law enforcement agencies involved in Florida Governor DeSantis’ inauguration. With the help of many friends, they fed almost 300 first responders.

Bo and Bridget enjoy meeting new people and spending a weekend or two per month doing

what they love with whom they love – smoking meats, making delicious homemade sides and that barbeque sauce. They welcome you into their barbecue family and hope to share their smokin’ delicious food for your next event.