Carolina gamecock
Knows what a fatty is.
Had a chance to compete in the 2013 Darlington racetrack Speed and feed cookoff this weekend and I had a total blast!! The company I work for (Nucor Steel) was a sponsor and our GM ponied up the cash for our entry fee. ( free contest!! #win!!!) There were I believe 44 teams there, but it was all the heavy hitters in SCBA being that the top purse was $2500 and a invite to the World Food Championship in Las Vegas.. I knew our spot on the pecking order before we got there, but the BBQ community is a very friendly group of folks in my opinion. Everybody was real easy to talk with and quite a few were very impressed with my homemade "rat rod" smoker! Another thing I loved was that the Band of Oz was there playing some of their classic beach music while we were prepping for pork. (Beach music is a type of music started back in the day around the Myrtle Beach area of NC and SC. Grew up of listening to that with my dad.) I noticed a few teams from the forums here and it was cool to put faces to avatars and team names. Wish I had the money to do it on a regular basis cause I could get addicted to it very quick!! Here's a few pics I got of some things.
Yes Dear BBQ. Chad has helped me out with a lot of questions both directly and by just reading posts. he wasn't there, but his buddy who runs a lot (and whose name I forgot:icon_blush
was very nice to talk with.
Our setup is directly to the left of All Smoked Up. Yeah the one with no tables or decorations out front!
These dudes here had the best wings I tried Friday night during the wing contest. A Habenero jelly wing. Awesome!!
Smoking Stacks is the team I think that won first place.
The sun coming up over The Lady in Black Saturday morning. We were setup to cook in the actual garage area where they work on the race cars during races. Pit road was directly behind us.
There were more teams down the left side of us but I honestly forgot to get pics..Newbie...
Yes Dear BBQ. Chad has helped me out with a lot of questions both directly and by just reading posts. he wasn't there, but his buddy who runs a lot (and whose name I forgot:icon_blush
was very nice to talk with.
Our setup is directly to the left of All Smoked Up. Yeah the one with no tables or decorations out front!
These dudes here had the best wings I tried Friday night during the wing contest. A Habenero jelly wing. Awesome!!
Smoking Stacks is the team I think that won first place.
The sun coming up over The Lady in Black Saturday morning. We were setup to cook in the actual garage area where they work on the race cars during races. Pit road was directly behind us.
There were more teams down the left side of us but I honestly forgot to get pics..Newbie...
