Kings' Hand-Chopped Pork BBQ

Eastern North Carolina barbecue the way Kinston has made it since the 1930s: whole-hog pork slow-smoked, hand-chopped, and dressed in the mild, peppery vinegar sauce that defines the region. No tomato, no sweetness, just the clean tang locals grew up on. Kings began when Wilbur King started serving food from a pot-bellied stove behind his family’s Kinston country store, and three generations later it’s one of the South’s best-known ’cue houses. Choose up to six pounds of hand-chopped pork. Perfect for a backyard cookout, a homesick Carolinian, or anyone who wants to taste what real Eastern NC barbecue means.