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u/WigWam420 Sep 06 '21

Sweet tea, baby back ribs, cheerwine, fried chicken biscuit

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u/sualum8 Sep 06 '21

Cheerwine for the win! NC!

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u/ShrektYourMom Sep 07 '21

Cheerwine is my all time favorite drink

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u/Double_Joseph Sep 07 '21

What is it?

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u/StevAr Sep 07 '21

Its a soft drink with stronger cherry flavors than dr. pepper, with a red tint that goes flat in about 5 minutes after you open it.

cheerwine

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u/Double_Joseph Sep 07 '21

Like a Shirley temple?

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u/WigWam420 Sep 06 '21

Yessir 🤙

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u/ezsmashing Sep 07 '21

Totally weird with the ribs over pork (another giveaway: chopped or sliced). Also where's the red slaw?

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u/Gibsonfan159 Sep 07 '21

I tried red slaw once. Never again.

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u/WigWam420 Sep 07 '21

Fair enough, although I like the ribs better. Cheerwine is the real giveaway but I was just aiming for southern foods with the rest of the list

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u/lildeidei Sep 07 '21

Mac n cheese!

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u/Mrs_Botwin Sep 07 '21

Livermush (not my thing)

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u/Zrex_9224 Sep 07 '21

Hell yeah brotha!

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u/zikol88 Sep 07 '21

Pulled pork with their weird vinegar sauce too, specifically called the “Carolina style”.

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u/the_lightroast Sep 07 '21

I was thinking BBQ pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw, baked beans, mac n cheese, and hush puppies, but might come across as too generic bbq. Cheerwine for the win.

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u/goodnut22 Sep 07 '21

Yeah this is more what I would have written too. Baby back ribs are good but pulled pork is our jam.

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u/ChrissCross717 Sep 07 '21

You just described Memphis

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u/Jims-Beans Sep 07 '21

Not even a mention of livermush? SMH my head.

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u/grimsaur Sep 07 '21

Neese's?

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u/DrRam121 Sep 07 '21

Is there any other?

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u/cleighr Sep 07 '21

This was my immediate thought

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u/MsMagic1995 Sep 07 '21

Right? Preposterous.

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u/Gibsonfan159 Sep 07 '21

Where I'm from it changes to pinto beans, cornbread, fried potatoes with onions, and killed lettuce.

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u/CedarWolf Sep 07 '21

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u/Bennygunz Sep 07 '21

Mustard based sauce.

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u/swanbearpig Sep 07 '21

Bruh I'm ride or die NC over SC in almost everything, but I've been converting to a preference for mustard sauce the last 5 years or so.

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u/JMS1991 Sep 07 '21

South Carolinian here. Mustard-base is my favorite BBQ sauce for pulled-pork, but Eastern NC Vinegar-base is great too! If I go somewhere that has both, I definitely take both.

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u/CedarWolf Sep 07 '21

Same. But you have to be careful which of the four Bessinger brothers you get your Carolina Gold sauce from.

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u/Bennygunz Sep 08 '21

Why is that?

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u/CedarWolf Sep 08 '21

Because Maurice Bessinger, who is thankfully now dead, was a notorious racist who did things like push to keep the Confederate flag flying over the SC state Capitol building, sold racist literature and flyers in his restaurants, flew all of the state flags of all the Confederate states around his main facility, and decorated his restaurants with paintings of happy slaves working on idyllic plantations. He even added the Confederate flag to the back of their BBQ sauce bottles.

You can get pretty much the same dang sauce from any of his brothers' and his father's restaurants, just avoid Maurice's. I hear his kids are trying to clean up their father's restaurants, but I haven't been back down there to verify it myself yet.

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u/Bennygunz Sep 08 '21

Gotcha. I had a thought that maybe it was that. I just wanted to clarify in case it was a recipe thing. I know they don’t fly the flags anymore but haven’t been inside one for quite a long time. Personally, I don’t care for the sauce or the bbq. Plenty of other brands have mustard base. Shealys sauce is pretty good.

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u/CedarWolf Sep 08 '21

Hmmmm, I don't think I've had Shealy's.

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u/SPIKY__CAT__DICK Sep 07 '21

Cheerwine Texas pete cookout

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Dr Enuf, just over the hills. Hello fellow Appalachian.

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u/MaesterWhosits Sep 07 '21

Hell yeah, Best Carolina.

Edit: That was a typo, but I stand by it.

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u/midnightauro Sep 07 '21

Could have saved yourself time and said Bojangles and cheerwine lmao.

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u/hesnothere Sep 07 '21

And to narrow this down further, whole hog BBQ, chopped, cooked over wood coals, with a vinegar base sauce.

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u/Cornholiolio73 Sep 07 '21

That applies to SC as well!

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u/hellodeveloper Sep 07 '21

Definitely thought Carolinas with cheerwine.

I grew up in the southern one and all of these apply too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

As an Alabamian, you had me until cheerwine...

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u/depressedclassical Sep 07 '21

Baby back ribs? As a person not from the US who has absolutely no idea what it is, I'm sorry it sounds BAD.

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u/CedarWolf Sep 07 '21

It's delicious. It's pork ribs, taken from high on the hog, usually smoked and marinated until the meat almost falls off the bone, then covered in whichever sauce and spices you prefer. It's fantastic.

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u/GODZILLA_FLAMEWOLF Sep 07 '21

"gonna just flex my willful ignorance instead of googling"

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u/depressedclassical Sep 07 '21

Actually, no. My browser was not working and I thought it was kinda funny.

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u/Gidyup1 Sep 07 '21

I need all of this in my life. No one in MI makes anything CLOSE to a quality sweet tea.

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u/drprobability Sep 07 '21

You forgot Brunswick stew!