The Barbecue Festival in old timey Lexington has joined the new world of social networking, or netporking as I prefer to call it. According to Lexington’s daily The Dispatch, “When the 27th Annual Barbecue Festival happens Oct. 23, participants and attendees will be able to ‘tweet’ about it in real time and upload photos and [...]
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3921 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 919.544.1587 Website Hours: Uh, I forgot to write ‘em down, I’ll find out soon… BBQ Jew’s Grade: C Porky Says: “Man shall not dine on pork alone (at least not here).” Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone While most barbecue joints use their marquee signs to boast or advertise weekly [...]
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Barbecued fox? Well, not really barbecued fox, but rather a local Fox affiliates’ take on “Ten Great N.C. Barbecue Restaurants.” See Sarah Palin’s favorite Triangle area TV station’s ‘cue list here. Top 10 lists are always suspect and always generate debate so I’ll stay out of the fray like my middle name is Switzerland (it is [...]
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An easy to read post for Friday morning: four belated pictures from Spring barbecue celebrations, the first two from the Cuegrass event at The Pit in Raleigh and the second set at customer appreciation day at the Backyard BBQ Pit #1 in Durham.
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Hell has frozen over at last. The news out of Burlington is that the owners of Hursey’s Barbecue are opening a location at Holly Hill Mall in the home of an old Chik-ail-A. Given that barbecue really is fast food (well, aside from the hours of cooking time), it makes a lot of sense to [...]
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A tip of the snout to alert reader Eric “Cracklins” Calhoun, who noticed this gem of an article. To sum up the Associated Press story, a trucker driving on I-5 in Washington state “choked on some spicy pork rinds, lost control of his truck on an interstate and jackknifed it before coming to a stop [...]
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For shame, Big Pig. The NC Pork Council has gone and done a real no-no–they’ve messed with puppies. More specifically, they’ve used their political might to block a bill that would ban “puppy mills” because they oppose its supporters, the Humane Society of the United States. My sources inside the Hog Industry say this is [...]
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A tip of the snout to Dave Filpus, who writes at his NC Barbecue Musings blog that a new barbecue joint is opening in the space where the barbecue joint called The Barbecue Joint was located before its doors were padlocked shut. There are also rumors that The Barbecue Joint that used to be located in [...]
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Regional grocery store giant Food Lion is based in Salisbury, NC, one of the most important (if underappreciated) barbecue towns in North Carolina due to its role as perhaps the birthplace of so-called “Lexington-style” barbecue. Thus, one might expect that the folks at Food Lion would understand how to properly use the word “barbecue.” One would be [...]
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The four-person judging team from Hillsborough Hog Day 2010, below from left: Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, Joel Grodensky, and Ed Mitchell (not pictured, Chief Judge David Hunt).
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