# North Carolina Rabbit Hole > Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country. This file provides information about North Carolina Rabbit Hole to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Why did Prince have an Adopt-a-Highway sign in the North Carolina mountains?](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-did-prince-have-an-adopt-a-highway-sign-in-the-north-carolina-mountains): The story behind a litter cleanup program in the Purple one's name is proof of why we can't have nice things. - [All hail our new overlord: A tubby cardinal named Gary](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/all-hail-our-new-overlord-a-tubby-cardinal-named-gary): This week, some 9/11 observations, a proper look back at a batshit crazy movie, and some free fruit-flavored Heineken that's only missing one thing: alcohol. - [There really is a Chinese restaurant next to nearly every Food Lion](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/there-really-is-a-chinese-restaurant-next-to-nearly-every-food-lion-in-nc): It's been a meme for years. But one man actually ran the numbers and found proof that the correlation is very real in North Carolina. So, in this Rabbit Hole investigation, we enlisted others to help us answer a bigger question: Why? - [Kids across North Carolina grew up reading with Dolly Parton, even after her literacy program hit a hiccup here](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/kids-across-north-carolina-grew-up-reading-with-dolly-parton-even-after-her-literacy-program-hit-a-s): Her Imagination Library sent free books every month to any kid under five whose parents signed up. In North Carolina, the impact has been wide, but some parts of its program had to pause new signups last year. Why? Blame the budget process. - [The Limousine-Driving Playboy Uncle who created “Big T!ts Potato Chips”](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-limousine-driving-playboy-uncle-who-created-big-t-ts-potato-chips): Every so often, a picture of an old bag of potato chips rockets around the internet. But how do we know it’s real? How did it get the name? And did the people who came up with it actually know what they were doing? We got answers from the last person who knew the man behind the meme. - [Rich North Carolinians are making SUPER SKEETERS](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/rich-north-carolinians-are-making-super-skeeters): Plus: What happens when you eat Bojangles before an NBA game, and repossessing a cool old car that doesn't work. - [The only Carolina Panther to get a Madden cover barely played for them](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-only-carolina-panther-to-get-a-madden-cover-barely-played-for-them): The picture of a tackle in the fourth quarter of an exhibition game 31 years ago got onto the cover of a legendary video game. One of the players in the photo had no idea until years later. - [Name a North Carolinian](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/name-a-north-carolinian): That's it. That's the task. - [There's a Honolulu, North Carolina for some reason](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/theres-a-honolulu-north-carolina-for-some-reason): It's in Craven County, and its founder didn't exactly put a lot of thought into the name. - [What ever happened to the 21-year-old police officer who caught Eric Rudolph?](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/what-ever-happened-to-the-21-year-old-police-officer-who-caught-eric-rudolph-western-north-carolina): Jeff Postell was just 10 months into his first patrol job in the small town of Murphy. Then one night, he caught the man behind the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and everything changed. - [Stealing a dog is an automatic felony in North Carolina. Stealing a cat is not. Why?](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/stealing-a-dog-is-an-automatic-felony-in-north-carolina-stealing-a-cat-is-not-why): Back in the day, pet crime was treated equally. That all changed in 1989, thanks to a spat between lawmakers that turned a seemingly harmless bill into a legislative dogfight. - [How our Bill of Rights was stolen, and how the FBI got it back](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/how-our-bill-of-rights-was-stolen-and-how-the-fbi-got-it-back): Just after the Civil War, a soldier casually took North Carolina's copy of a priceless founding document. A century later, the feds set up a sting operation to recover it. Here's a true story involving a fake tech millionaire, the Antiques Roadshow, and vanilla milkshakes from Cook Out. - [Charlotte's most exclusive, sportsiest, bachelor-paddiest condos sit atop a meat palace](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/charlotte-most-exclusive-condos-meat-palace-lamelo-ball-michael-jordan-cam-newton): A historic modernist bank building in Uptown was converted into condos occupied, largely, by rich, single men. Then the city's greatest athletes moved in. So did Michael Jordan and an American Idol. - [Some Pig: The Story of Struttin' Stormy and the Stanley Cup](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/some-pig-the-story-of-struttin-stormy-and-the-stanley-cup-carolina-hurricanes): The Carolina Hurricanes just became NHL champions for the first time in 20 years, and during that run a lot of people noticed something unusual on their road uniforms: A cartoony, college-style pig on the shoulder. Today, we take a closer look at the long journey of a logo from the mind of an art teacher in South Dakota all the way to the Stanley Cup champions. - [Neese's Country Sausage Got Sold To Someone Who's Not a Neese](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/neeses-country-sausage-got-sold-to-someone-whos-not-a-neese): First, it had a listeria outbreak. Then its products disappeared from North Carolina grocery stores. There was no explanation, until now. A new owner has taken over Neese's, a family-owned business that's made bricks of sausage, liver pudding, scrapple, and more for more than a century. So what happens next? - [Do Not Wait for the Shibumi Shade IPO](https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/do-not-wait-for-the-shibumi-shade-ipo): An update from behind the scenes of the company that makes the blue flappy things that you see on every beach in North Carolina.