piedmont wrote:
> 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)

Thanks so much. I saved a copy of your post.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.