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> We'd walked from South Carolina into North Carolina Y'all should have stuck around for the superior pulled pork experience!

• SwellJoe 10y ago
  I'm not sure which state you're saying has superior pulled pork, but I think those are fighting words in either case. I'm fond of both mustard and vinegar sauces. Tomato is good, too (that's actually what's popular where I'm from in upstate SC and western NC). The last time I ever ate red meat (or large mammal meat) was a pulled pork sandwich 23 years ago. I became a vegetarian a few months later, after having étouffée in Louisiana on my way to Texas. I still partake of BBQ pretty regularly, and make my own sauce, but it's always tofu, seitan, jackfruit, etc.
  • selimthegrim 10y ago
    The mustard sauce over pulled pork is definitely producing plenty of fighting words at the moment: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/americas-most-political-food http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/americas-most-p...
    • SwellJoe 10y ago
      Melvin's and Maurice's were always must-stops for my family. Maurice's in Columbia on our way to the beach (either Myrtle or Charleston or Hunting Island) and Melvin's regularly when my dad was working in Charleston for a couple of years. Both at their original locations, AFAIK. I didn't know anything about the politics of Maurice at the time, but read about it later (that very article, I think, was linked on HN a while back). So, yeah, even vile racists make good BBQ in SC, and nobody held their racism against them through decades of successful operation. I always found that history pretty fascinating, even before the racism came up...brothers kinda duking it out in a BBQ turf war, in a state where BBQ really matters.
    • monksy 10y ago
      Words like embarrassment, inferior, and not bbq. :)