The War of North Carolina BBQ: Western vs. Eastern and Where You Can Eat It

Bryan Richards | April 6, 2016

Western North Carolina BBQ

Not only can the Tar Heel State not pick the official state BBQ, they can’t even agree on a name for what some call Western North Carolina BBQ. The style is also referred to as Lexington or Piedmont.

Contrary to popular belief, Western BBQ sauce, the key differentiating factor between the two styles, is not tomato based like thicker sauces found elsewhere in the United States.

Western North Carolina BBQ is actually not much different from Eastern as far as the sauce is concerned. The only difference is the introduction of tomato, or ketchup, to the sauce. Like Eastern BBQ, the base is still a heavy dosage of vinegar with the slight addition of a tomato product to sweeten up the tang a bit. Thus, this new style of BBQ sauce is guessed to have been created sometime after Heinz introduced ketchup at the Centennial International Exhibition in 1876.

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