There really is a Chinese restaurant next to nearly every Food Lion
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?
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.
Neese's Country Sausage Got Sold To Someone Who's 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?
Meet a man who built a barbecue smoker out of a file cabinet
Is it real? Does it work? Is it safe? Was it hard to make? Why would anyone build one? Why is he selling it and trying to get a broken chainsaw in return? And, is this a singular piece of American ingenuity or is there an underground community of file cabinet smokers that I had never heard of before now? The seller, and an expert, tell us everything.
Five paragraphs (and one video) that explain North Carolina barbecue
I'm not talking about what's better: Eastern or Lexington-style, whole hog or pork shoulder. I'm more interested in what the state of barbecue in this state tells us about the state of ourselves.
