As you head to Shelby, NC and the Historic Cleveland County Fairgrounds Speedway for the various upcoming events such as the Vintage Championship Series and Good Old Days Series, you needn't arrive hungry.
That's because the North Carolina Barbecue Society Historic Barbecue Trail runs smack dab through Shelby. Barbecue had its origins here in North Carolina, the "Cradle of Cue" and to that end, the Society recognizes outstanding and historic cue joints.
Barbecue Trail
NCBS has designed a barbecue trail from Eastern North Carolina to Tennessee. The trail will meander across the state with stops at 24 NCBS Historic Barbecue Pits. These pits were carefully and selectively chosen by the NCBS board as representatives of the distinctive methods and barbecue cooking styles that have made North Carolina the Barbecue Capital of the World. Each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit still cooks the old fashioned pit cooked method. And each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit will proudly display a specially designed emblem depicting old style barbecue cooking that is part of the tradition, heritage and culture that NCBS seeks to preserve.
Criteria for selection to the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail included, among other things, that the NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit cook their meat product on pits fueled by wood or charcoal, make their own sauce, that the pit had operated continuously for fifteen or more years, that the end product was a good offering and representative of North Carolina Barbecue and that the pit had earned and enjoyed the high esteem of its community, the barbecue industry and barbecue aficionados. The board decided to only include pits that provide a sit down dining experience for the public and to limit the number of pits on the trail to two per town/city.
The establishment of the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail will afford visitors to the Old North State an opportunity to sample North Carolina barbecue cooked in the traditional fashion and served by some of the nicest people one could ever hope to meet.
Click on the link for the map of the Barbecue Trail leading to Shelby :
http://www.ncbbqsociety.com/bbqmap/trail_map.html
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
