I've given up trying to decide who does the best barbecue in the Carolina's.  Just as in the NFL, on any given day...  But, along with Allen and Sons, I know Sweatman's will always be in there, battling it out for number one.  It is that good.

Sweatman's runs as a buffet.  Pretty basic at lunch- slaw, hash (southern scrapple turned into a sauce - whatever's leftover after the meat's pulled off the bones), rice, and barbecue.  Four different pans of barbecue.  Light meat - moist and tender.  Dark meat, crisp and full of flavor.  And a pan each of ribs and skin.

Sweatman's barbecues the who hog - half a hog, split down the middle and smoked for about 8 hours.  That's the outside of the pithouse to the right, and some of the pigs barbecuing inside, above the buffet line pic.