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Linkdown: 10/16/13

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– The Q-City Charlotte BBQ Championship (formerly the BBQ & Blues Festival) returns to uptown Charlotte this weekend

– More shots fired from Stephen Colbert on NC barbecue (0:49 into the video)

Amen. I’ve always said chemical weapons are a state’s rights issue. Each individual state should decide what is and isn’t poisonous. For example, what we in my home state of South Carolina consider a deadly toxin, people in North Carolina call barbecue sauce.

– The author of “A History of South Carolina Barbeque” and also the president of the South Carolina Barbeque Society certainly has some opinions

– Rocky Mount, NC hosts the sixth annual Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down this weekend, a KCBBQ event

– A couple of new NYC barbecue spots are trying to replicate NC pulled pork and based on this are seemingly doing a decent job at it

– Details on the grandaddy of them all, the 30th Annual Barbecue Festival

Linkdown: 10/2/13

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– North Carolina has a new law which allows the concealed carry of firearms in more businesses, but Lexington Barbecue still posts a sign prohibiting firearms on its premises

– A recap of last weekend’s Whole Hog State Championship in Raleigh

– BBQ Jew has some deets on the Allen & Son (Pittsboro, not Chapel Hill) expansion into a former Jackson Bros BBQ in Sanford

– The Red BBQ sauce from Mac’s Speed Shop beat over 250 competitors to win first place in the Tomato Sauce category at this year’s Memphis in May; you can’t have that recipe but here’s the recipe for their vinegar sauce 

– Our State magazine recently reviewed Speedy’s Barbecue in Lexington (our review here) and Blackbeard’s BBQ & C-Food in Tarboro

– The 84th Annual Mallard Creek Barbecue will begin at 10am on October 24 and I hope to attend this year

A crowd of nearly 20,000 is expected to tackle 14,600 pounds of pork barbecue; 2,500 gallons of Brunswick stew; 2 tons of coleslaw and 400 gallons of coffee.

Linkdown: 9/25/13

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All NC barbecue news this week…

– Usually Raleigh’s WRAL picks their five favorite barbecue joints but this year they left it up to their readers

– October is now officially Barbecue Festival Month, at least according to the (somewhat biased) Lexington City Council

– This coming weekend on the streets of Raleigh, the NC Whole Hog Barbecue State Championship will be held at the same time as the International Bluegrass Music Assocation’s awards show, convention, and music festival, which recently relocated from Nashville to the capital city for the first of at least a three-year run

– You can catch the second airing of Bob Garner’s segment discussing his “Book of Barbecue” on UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Bookwatch” Thursday at 5pm

– Sadly, there was a salmonella outbreak at a barbecue event in Shelby earlier this month with 89 ill and 13 hospitalized; hopefully everyone makes a full recovery

Linkdown: 9/18/13

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– Another week, another top 10 barbecue list, albeit one that doesn’t include a NC joint but instead features a California restaurant that cooks “Carolina pulled pork” 

– Queen City Q is one of 9,000 restaurants participating in No Kid Hungry; read details here

– Here’s what it’s like to be a barbecue judge (via)

– Catawba County EMS is holding its annual barbecue and chili cook-off, “Butts-N-Beans,” on October 5 in Vale

– Dickey’s Barbecue opens its Ballantyne location in Charlotte this Saturday (fart noise)

– A Wake Forest man is hoping to get his barbecue sauce made through a Lifetime reality competition called “Supermarket Superstar”

– Watch The Salt Lick this Wednesday: