How to order — Carolina Barbecue At a Carolina barbecue counter the words are short and they mean particular things. Barbecue is the meat, not the event. A tray has no bread; a plate does. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/story/how-to-order/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
vinegar-and-pepper sauce — Carolina Barbecue Vinegar — cider or white — with salt, black pepper and crushed red pepper, and nothing else in its plainest form; some houses add sugar, a bottled hot sauce or lemon. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/sauce/vinegar-pepper-sauce/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 55K
gas and electric cookers — Carolina Barbecue The cookers most Carolina barbecue is cooked in: steel ovens fired by propane, natural gas or an electric element, with a thermostat and racks, and often a box for wood chips or a log to put smoke on the meat. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/gas-and-electric-cookers/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 36K
hickory and oak — Carolina Barbecue The hardwoods of the Carolina pit. Hickory and oak are the woods a Carolina cook burns, usually together and usually burned down to coals before they go under the meat: Lexington pits cook over oak and hickory coals… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/hickory-and-oak/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 39K
Heavy tomato barbecue — Carolina Barbecue Pork shoulders and butts, ribs and chicken cooked over hickory or on cookers and served with a thick, sweet, red sauce of tomato, brown sugar or molasses, vinegar and spices — the sauce the state tourism office says you… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/style/sc-heavy-tomato/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Grady's Barbecue — Carolina Barbecue A whole-hog pit at a country crossroads in Dudley, Wayne County, south of Goldsboro, opened on July 4, 1986 by Steve and Gerri Grady and run by Gerri and their son Scottie since Steve's death in August 2025. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/place/gradys-barbecue/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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
cornbread — Carolina Barbecue A quick bread of cornmeal — meal, water or buttermilk, salt, fat, often egg and soda — baked in a pan, a skillet or a stick mould. It comes with eastern North Carolina barbecue in two forms. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/cornbread/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 51K
hog killing — Carolina Barbecue The winter slaughter of the farm's hogs, done on the first cold day of autumn or winter, when the meat would keep. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/hog-killing/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 34K