pit — Carolina Barbecue The place the cooking happens. First a trench in the ground filled with hardwood coals, the split hog on a rack above; then a wide, shallow container of cinder block, brick or steel above ground, still a pit; then, at… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/word/pit/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 33K
the pig mascot — Carolina Barbecue One pig, drawn once, used everywhere a barbecue business puts its name: the sign, the menu, the sauce label, the takeout box, the trailer door, the roofline, the weather vane. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/art/pig-mascot/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
The Sunday question — Carolina Barbecue Sunday is the day a Carolina barbecue house is most likely to be shut, and the day some people will tell you not to order barbecue anyway. Neither is about the meat being worse on a Sunday. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/story/the-sunday-question/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 28K
Down East — Carolina Barbecue In North Carolina, the coastal plain east of Raleigh — the barbecue east, where the hog is cooked whole and the sauce has no tomato; eastern North Carolina barbecue is also called Down East barbecue. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/word/down-east/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 33K
whole hog — Carolina Barbecue The entire dressed pig — dressed meaning gutted and scraped of hair, the head sometimes left on — split open along the backbone, laid flat over coals and cooked as one piece, then pulled from the bones and chopped… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/whole-hog/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 53K
direct heat — Carolina Barbecue The Carolina way of putting fire to meat: a bed of hardwood coals directly beneath the hog or the shoulders, with no flame and no separate firebox. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/direct-heat/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 36K
Lexington dip — Carolina Barbecue The Piedmont's sauce: the east's vinegar, salt, pepper and red pepper with ketchup or tomato and water added, sometimes sugar, so that it comes out thin and reddish — tangy, a little sweet or hot by the house, and every… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/sauce/lexington-dip/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 53K
pig cooker — Carolina Barbecue A steel box on a trailer chassis, long enough for a split hog, with a hinged lid, a grate, and either a row of propane burners underneath or a bed for charcoal: the cooker of the pig pickin', towed to the church lot… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/pig-cooker/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 32K
Light tomato barbecue — Carolina Barbecue Pork — whole hog in the Pee Dee, shoulders and hams in the upper Midlands — cooked over coals or on cookers and served with a thin sauce that is the Carolinas' vinegar-and-pepper with ketchup stirred in. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/style/sc-light-tomato/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 37K
The pit — Carolina Barbecue Cuts, fuel, pits, tools and methods. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 28K
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