[aomagrat]

Mustard based BBQ is the best, and it's found at Shealy's BBQ in Leesville SC.

[Gamecock]

Shealy's Bump

It's been said that BBQ in the South is like cheese in France, you travel 5 miles and it is different...

[blam]

"Here in what’s known as the Barbecue Belt — North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas — the meat of choice is pork."

I think they forgot Texas. The best BBQ I've ever eaten was in Texas. It was beef brisket, Mesquite cooked with a mustard based sauce. Hmmmmm

[AppyPappy]

Horse hockey. Vinegar and pepper flakes. If you are going to slather sauce all over it, you can just omit the meat.

[blackdog]

Stanton's fly-in airstrip restaraunt in South Carolina is the best. Remember the USAIR 737 that crashed at Charlotte Int'l in 96? The last conversation on the cockpit voice recorder was a heated debate over BBQ ingredients!

[Peter W. Kessler]

I was introduced to barbeque in Spartanburg, SC in 1969. We were moving from New Jersey to Mobile, AL.

Our host in Spartanburg told us we'd be having barbeque for dinner. This kid from Jersey figured he'd be lighting the grille...

Nope. We got in the car and headed to... I wish I could remember the name of the place.

We opened the containers and started spooning it on soft hamburger buns. It was this stringy looking meat in a red sauce.

It was delicious.

We moved back to New Jersey in '71, and I didn't get to enjoy this culinary delight 'til I visited my uncle in Lakeland, FL many years later when we went to "Jimbos."

Barbeque is one of the last truly regional foods. Excellent barbeque is available only below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Of course, the best pizza is only available in the New York Metro area...

[FreedomPoster]

The yankees reading this headline think it's about throwing some steaks on the grille.

[TroutStalker]

The author is obviously ignorant. No article about BBQ is complete without mentioning Kansas City. Johnney's in Mission is some of the best.

[Constitution Day]

Mustard is only fit for hot dogs & sausage biscuits.

[Constitution Day]

HA!!

Vinegar & pepper trounces all mere impostors!

Aomagrat, you are welcome to visit eastern North Carolina and re-educate yourself on proper barbecue at one or more of the following locations:
Cherry's BBQ - Wilson, NC
Parker's BBQ - Wilson & Greenville, NC
"B's" Barbecue - Greenville, NC
Bob Melton's BBQ - Rocky Mount, NC

You can thank me later.

[Ol' Sox]

If you enjoy fireworks, just say the word “barbecue” in a crowd of Southerners and sit back and enjoy the show.

You've discovered the defense I use when confronted with a bunch of southern guys talking about "yankees".

Just say barbecue and watch the fun.

Its like tossing a salmon into a bear pit. hehehe.

[Arkinsaw]

Memphis BBQ is tops IMO...tomato based there.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Talk all you want amongst you regarding BBQ sauce. We of Serbian descent know how to BBQ.....its called suckling pig with nothing but garlic, garlic and more garlic. Our household will be doing one in 2 days tp prepare for Orthodox Christmas.

[shuckmaster]

Try Maurice's BBQ Sauce

[Nate505]

Maybe it's the westerner in me, but I can't stand mustard based or vinagery sauces.....good thick sweet sauce is how I likes it...

[tberry]

": Mustard-based sauce is best for barbecue"

YUCK!!!

Give me that good ole" brown stuff!!!!!!

[Rustynailww]

there is no bad bbq.

[Lee'sGhost]

Wrong. And it's not the first time/place I've heard it -- but it's still wrong. AND -- Kovacik is wrong. It's about taste. Find 100 people who have never sampled the barbecue(s) in question and let them sample mustard vs ketchup vs vinegar based, and 98 will pick the Eastern NC vinegar-based sauce ever time.

End of discussiong. We win bec it's about taste.

[VRW Conspirator]

Tummy grumbling bump.

[riley1992]

I don't know how it tastes in a BBQ sauce but I had a steak one time that was prepared with mustard before grilling and it was fabulous.

[QuestionBureaucracy]

Stuck in Northern Virginia, we are deprived of the pleasures of good Carolina bbq but make do with dry ribs from Red Hot & Blue. Smoked pork ribs rubbed with herbs and spice and no sauce but what you choose from the squirt bottles.