>>21399966Maybe this is too Texas inside baseball, but Hank is a parody of a very specific type of Texan dad who grew up in a place that was rural but is now fully swallowed up by suburban development for Dallas (you can also apply this stereotype to Houston).
For some reason these guys always use propane grills, I think because the nicest grills at Home Depot are typically propane and a nice grill is a status symbol among the aggressively middle class. But these dorks usually can't actually properly smoke meat or even do something as basic as grill a cheeseburger so charcoal or wood would be wasted on them anyway. Hence why Hank and Peggy are consistently shown to be bad cooks.
If you move to Texas your first move should be to secure a friend who has decided he is going to be the smoked meats guy for the friend group because that means almost anytime somebody throws a party he is showing up with a nice smoked brisket.