Check out this classic sign from Austin, Texas:
photo by cheryl via creative commons
Seeing this sign scared the hush puppies out of me. What if I couldn’t eat barbecue one day due to dental issues? I know, I know–it’s too dark a fate to even contemplate. Nevertheless, my next thought was: who’s the closest dentist to Allen & Son?
Mostly, though, this sign warms my heart. As you might suspect, we BBQ Jews enjoy a good rhyme. I grew up patronizing the Yankee Smokehouse, whose owners vowed to “serve no swine before it’s time” (with that apostrophe making a real difference there.)
In our fine state, I can’t think of any barbecue joints pursuing anything approaching porcine poetry. Sure, there’s a few Brew and ‘Cue places. But nothing great out there, even with ‘pork’ lending itself to a rhyme or four. Surely someone has rhymed that with ‘fork,’ and hopefully even ‘spork.’
Yet, after doing a little Web searching, all I could find was this all-too-slick place in California–with its smoked asparagus–“where the fork meets the pork.” But even that’s a touch boring.
So I’m throwing it out there: Can you think of anyone in N.C. Barbecuedom who employs a clever rhyme?
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BBQ Jew 
It’s not an example from North Carolina, but at a Memphis-in-May competition in the early 90s, a guy who billed himself as “M.C. Hamhock” had a rap that went “Don’t need no knife, don’t need no fork. / Just wrap your lips around my pork.”
In my mind’s eye, M.C. Hamhock was an M.C. Hammer impersonator, complete with the shimmering, baggy pants.
Exactly — except he was waving a sparerib around while he rapped.