A festival celebrating barbecue -- yes, BARBECUE -- is in peril. In North Carolina.
"The Greater Hickory Smoke Barbeque festival won’t be held this May," says the Hickory Daily Record. "The host organization, Hickory’s Southwest Business Association, dissolved. That left the event without sufficient support. ...
"The inaugural festival, held at the Catawba Furniture Mall parking lot in 2004, drew about 17,000 people. Successive festivals held at L.P. Frans Stadium, home of the Hickory Crawdads minor league baseball team, had lower attendance."
All right, Hickory folks: there's got to be a way to continue a barbecue festival, for crying out loud. Don't let us down.
3 comments:
I guess the state of NC BBQ affairs is in bad shape. Didn't realize it was bad enough to start canceling events.
And why are all the BBQ festivals out west? It's common knowledge that Eastern style is superior to Lexington style.
Maybe those folks in the western Piedmont are just insecure about their product...
You are right: Eastern 'cue IS superior -- not doubt about it. What's with Lexington and Hickory (RIP) having festivals? Shouldn't Wilson, Kinston and Goldsboro have a roving festival? I'd become like a Deadhead for that!
Next thing you tell me is the ACC Tournament is leaving Greensboro -- what? It already has? NOO!!!!!
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