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

Bryan Richards | April 6, 2016

The one Thing all North Carolinians Agree On – the Use of Pig

Well, sort of.

I mean, both styles are pork based, but they don’t use the same parts. For example, the menu of a popular Western / Lexington / Piedmont BBQ restaurant reads as such, “We use pork shoulders only. They are cooked about nine hours over hickory and oak coals. We salt the meat before cooking but we do not baste. This is the true Lexington Style Barbecue.” Eastern BBQ, on the other hand, uses the whole hog.

Why the difference? Once again, it has to do with timing. Eastern BBQ, remember, is pretty much the same as BBQ carried over from the Caribbean. Western BBQ is an adaptation of Eastern with not only the inclusion of ketchup in the sauce but also the use of pork shoulders as was that tradition carried to North Carolina by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers in the Piedmont region.

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