(02-22-2020 04:27 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  NC has 2 distinct styles. Eastern is pulled pork with vinegar based sauce. Western seems chopped but I guess it could be pulled and has a tomato based sauce. The dividing line is somewhere between Durham and Greensboro.

Both regions do BBQ other meats but if you don't specify you will get pork.

There are some variations in the coleslaw too. White vs yellow and served on the BBQ or as a side.

There are plenty of good local BBQ places in Western NC where I grew up, but the only edible BBQ places in NC east of Alamance County are the newer or chain ones that sell something other than Eastern NC style BBQ. Eastern NC Q is nasty.

This is also true of my adopted home state Virginia, which local styles basically copy NC with the same east-west divide. Here in Richmond, we have one of the best locally owned BBQ places in America (and I've had BBQ in 33 states, and 3 territories), but it specializes in something other than the traditional eastern VA style - which is why this place is so good, because the traditional local style is just as nasty as the Eastern NC style.