On 1/9/2010 9:06 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
> piedmont wrote:
>> http://www.ncbbqsociety.com/trail.html
>>
>> Barbecue Trail
>>
>> NCBS has designed a barbecue trail from Eastern North Carolina to
>> Tennessee. The trail will meander across the state with stops at 24
>> NCBS Historic Barbecue Pits. These pits were carefully and selectively
>> chosen by the NCBS board as representatives of the distinctive methods
>> and barbecue cooking styles that have made North Carolina the Barbecue
>> Capital of the World. Each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit still cooks the
>> old fashioned pit cooked method. And each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit
>> will proudly display a specially designed emblem depicting old style
>> barbecue cooking that is part of the tradition, heritage and culture
>> that NCBS seeks to preserve.
>>
>> Criteria for selection to the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail included,
>> among other things, that the NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit cook their
>> meat product on pits fueled by wood or charcoal, make their own sauce,
>> that the pit had operated continuously for fifteen or more years, that
>> the end product was a good offering and representative of North
>> Carolina Barbecue and that the pit had earned and enjoyed the high
>> esteem of its community, the barbecue industry and barbecue
>> aficionados. The board decided to only include pits that provide a sit
>> down dining experience for the public and to limit the number of pits
>> on the trail to two per town/city.
>> The establishment of the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail will afford
>> visitors to the Old North State an opportunity to sample North
>> Carolina barbecue cooked in the traditional fashion and served by some
>> of the nicest people one could ever hope to meet.
>
> I bookmarked the page. DH and I are going to NJ in April for a family
> thing. We are driving. On the way home to way-the-heck-south, which will
> be late April, we just might consider taking the NC BBQ Trail.
>
> We have been to Lexington a couple of times.
>

Don't really know you and husband but willing to meet you at a local Q
Joint if you come this way. My wife Yvonne and I live right off I-85,
South of Charlotte, NC. Here is the link to RO's BBQ, http://www.rosbbq.com/

Regards,
piedmont (Michael Willsey)