It's Sunday, and I have a hankering for a visit to the barbeque place. Alas, none here in Chicago. Oh, they can call it "Carolina pulled pork", but it's messy and doused in red sticky sauce, but that is not my barbeque. Shredded pork with clear vinegar "sauce" is what I like -- Eastern NC style. The photo above was taken during a road trip with Mama. We were traveling from Asheville to Charlotte and decided to take the business route into Lincolnton for lunch.
Luckily we found the Bar-B-Q King. Everything you ever wanted in a barbeque place. Good, fast and low-key. Every table had a bottle of ketchup, a roll of paper towels (the kitchen-Bounty variety), salt/pepper and a a bottle of Texas Pete. This place is pretty far west, but is on the geographical edge, so to speak, of where barbeque goes from shredded to sliced and sauce goes from "clear" to red. It was a great lunch. And the tea was pretty good, too. (I have a friend whose mother says that a place's sweet tea is the only real way to judge a restaurant.)
Somewhere I have the card of a barbeque place that overnights food. I need that card. I'll make tea today -- halfway there.
4 comments:
Have you tried Fat Willies Rib Shack? It is awesome!! I am borderline addicted.
http://www.fatwillys.com
I haven't been there in a long while! Time for a visit! Thanks for the reminder!
Interesting comment about sweet tea. I used to say the same thing about Pad Thai.
Everybody has his own yardstick.
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