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Scottsdale BBQ joint The Thumb featured on Food Network tonight

🍖 The Thumb, a unique gas station/barbecue joint/gift shop hybrid in north Scottsdale, makes its second appearance on the Food Network tonight.

  • The restaurant’s smoked meats were featured on ‘‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’’ in 2015.
  • Show host Guy Fieri returned late last year to film part of tonight’s episode of his ‘‘DD&D’’ spinoff ‘‘Triple D Nation.’’

How to watch: Tonight’s episode, entitled ‘‘Bacon, Burgers and Pork Butt,’’ airs at 9 p.m. and again at midnight on the Food Network on most TV providers.