How many times do I have to say this on eighty five different threads. Memphis barbeque is AWFUL. I have no idea what they do to the pork, but that take a perfectly good piece of meat and make it taste like cardboard. Then they put this awful red sauce on it. And the ribs (which are poor folks food anyway) are equally bad: dry tasteless.

There is only one kind of barbeque: Lexington (NC) barbeque. Sweet, sweet, long cooked, lovingly basted pork with a nice vinegar-based sauce (no, never tomatoes in the sauce). It is not eastern NC barbeque, nor is it western NC barbeque. With barbeque slaw and hush puppies. You need the whole plate to really savor the joy of Lexington barbeque.

And yes, there are places where people take barbeque really seriously.