In article >,
The Cook > wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:09:41 -0500, lil abner > wrote:
>
> >cybercat wrote:
> >> For a breath of fresh air after the holiday food. I didn't cook the
> >> collards
> >> or pork, tried the place below instead, and the barbecue is less fatty
> >> than
> >> most but just as flavorful, the collard leaves in large pieces and not
> >> cooked to death, with vinegar already in them and just enough. Wonderful
> >> stuff. For sweet potatoes with the right flavor but less fat and sugar I
> >> baked them and mashed them lightly with a little butter and dark brown
> >> sugar.
> >>
> >> I could eat just the collards and potatoes for days on end. I was not
> >> raised
> >> on these things but sure did take to them once I found them.
> >>
> >>
> >Last year when traveling through NC we tried to find some Carolina BBQ.
> >The place we found had a famous name but had been bought by Inidans or
> >Somalis.
> >The meat was boiled and taken out of the pot and slapped on a grill long
> >enough to burn it. They served that with some sugar syrup with liquid
> >smoke and hot sauce and vinegar mixed in.
> >The beans and fries were worse than Hardies. They didn't know what sweet
> >potatoes were.
> >The slaw was the packaged mix with some cabbage stirred in mintes before.
> >The bread was toasted light bread slathered with butter flavored veg oil.
> >The beans were canned pork and beans with some ketsup and more sugar
> >stirred in.
> >our first clue should have been when we pulled into the parking lot that
> >the pit hadn't been used in a very very long time and their was no oak
> >or hickory smoke mixed with meat smell.
> >They got both our orders wrong.
> >This is the place with the Big Pig as it's symbol. It was the best of
> >the three places we tried.
> >All the good places seem to be gobbled up by foreign interest who figure
> >the cheapest crap they can serve up with inflated prices will make them
> >rich.
> >The place was packed though. Go figure.
>
> Try Wilbur's in Goldsboro, NC. We ate there about a month ago and it
> was still great. If you are near I77, Little Richards in Mt. Airy or
> Yadkinville are not bad at all. BBQ Ribs & Co. at exit 143 on I40/85
> near Burlington also makes good BBQ.

I would add to the list Lexington BBQ #1 in Lexington (featured in this
month's Southern Living), Bullock's in Durham, and Fuzzy's in Madison.

Cindy

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