Dear Loyal Readers,
You recently enlightened me on the topic of BBQ in mall food courts and I once again need to drink from your well of wisdom. When traveling in the Greenville area not too long ago I noticed a Skylight Inn ad on television. As you’d expect, it was a pretty low budget ad, which featured the tagline: “It’s a barbecue fact, not fiction, wood cooked barbecue smokes the competition.” Needless to say, there was nothing particularly exciting about the ad… except that I’d never seen a TV ad for a NC barbecue place before.
I asked Samuel Jones of the Skylight Inn about the ad and he said they’d started running it relatively recently and that it was paying big dividends in drawing in more customers (I guess that is the point of ads, so I am not sure why this fact surprised me but it did). Anyway, I’m curious whether other North Carolina BBQ joints have run TV spots. An exhaustive/exhausting three minute search of You Tube proved fruitless (porkless?), but I imagine some of the bigger joints must advertise on local stations. Please englighten me.
Your’s in our shared quest to educate the world about every obscure detail of North Carolina barbecue culture,
Porky
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