The BBQ Road Trip

You know those kind of road trips that sort of just started because you CRAVED a particular comfort food and were willing to drive wherever you needed to go to get it?

We found a story about that online this week, “The Hog Highway; Chasing Cues Across Eastern North Carolina”, by Sandy Lange, a writer for Guns & Gardens Magazine. To wet your appetite for the story, here’s the a portion of the opening paragraph.

“The whole adventure was a lark, a two-day open-road bender. There was little planning. We unfolded a map during a visit with family down east in North Carolina and stitched a looping route from Wayne County southeast of Raleigh to Beaufort County in the east, to as far west as Chapel Hill—and back again. Our guide would be pork, specifically the vinegar-pepper whole-hog variety that gives the eastern part of the state its reputation for serving up some of the best ’cue in the country. We’d stay off major highways when possible, following two-lane asphalt lined with farmhouses and pine tree rows, tobacco barns and railroad crossings.”

With an intro like that, you KNOW you gotta go read it right now. We promise you’ll enjoy it.

(Incidentally, the timing is great because Layne has been hanging on to this cool pic she took of a roadside barbecue in KY over Christmas. She’s been waiting for the chance to use it ever since. )

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