Barbecue reviewers–myself included–almost always feel the need to assign some sort of rating to each joint they review. Alas, ten or so hours of slow-cooking pig gets boiled down to one simple letter, word or symbol. Today’s post takes a look at the different barbecue rating systems we’ve come across. Here’s the universe of NC [...]
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2206 High Point Road, Greensboro, NC (2nd location here) 336.299.9888 Stamey’s Website BBQ Jew’s Grade: A- Porky Says: “Deserves it’s fame.” Location, Location, Location Even if Stamey’s food was bad (and Lord knows it ain’t), I’d have to give them plenty of credit. The members of the Stamey family are legends of NC barbecue, and smart [...]
Filed under: Restaurants & Reviews | Tagged: Grade A, Greensboro, Guilford County, Lexington style, Wood-cooked | 4 Comments »
We hope you are spending your Memorial Day with your family, friends and copious amounts of slow-cooked pork (or at least some hot dogs cooked on a charcoal grill). God bless you, God bless America, and most of all God bless the United States of Barbecue.
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630 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC (but plotting a move so call and check) 919.932.7504 Website BBQ Jew’s Grade: C Porky Says: “Microbrews and brussel sprouts?!” Returning to the Scene of the Crime It had been several years since I’d last been to The Barbecue Joint, as my first and last visit there several years [...]
Filed under: Restaurants & Reviews | Tagged: Chapel Hill, Gas/electric-cooked, Grade C, Orange County, Yuppiecue | 5 Comments »
With the watermelon and ketchup/mustard/relish displays popping up in the supermarket, it must be summer. And that means time to barbecue some meat, right? Nope. Because as many of you know, barbecue is a noun. Let us proclaim it from atop Mount Sinai. If you’re looking for a verb to communicate cooking burgers and dogs, [...]
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Recently we received a message from Burgeoningfoodie, who shared this link to a short news report about a sexy mannequin helping sell barbecue in Cincinnati (rest assured, this is a CNN video so it is safe to open at work). Watching the video brought several questions to mind, none of which are particularly insightful but all [...]
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Looking for a reason to visit northeastern North Carolina and chow on some pork this weekend? Look no further. This Saturday pay a visit to the small town of Murfreesboro for the annual Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest. What is the Pork-Fest? And why is it hyphenated? Alas, this post answers just one of these burning questions. Jimmy [...]
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I saw the billboard pictured above and it made me crave knowledge and enlightenment (and some pork). Specifically, I wanted to understand what was meant by, “America’s Largest Pork Display.” Could I be so lucky? Could this statement really be true? And what the heck does “pork display” mean anyway? These questions burned in my mind like a pork shoulder [...]
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3096 Arrington Bridge Road, Dudley, NC 919.735.7243 No Website BBQ Jew’s Grade: A+ Porky Says: “I can now die happy.” I thought about leaving my review at this: go to Grady’s. That would have been enough said, but the folks at Grady’s deserve a little more good (albeit virtual) ink. As far as I am [...]
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When last I heard from the Egyptians, they were drowning in the no-longer-parted Red Sea in the story of Passover. Now they’re killing all of their hogs. Dark days. This week, Egypt slaughtered between 300,000 to 400,000 pigs. The hogs were owned by the Christian minority in Egypt, and many suspect the Muslim government used [...]
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