I had a pony!: I would expect a Carolina bbq burger to have pulled pork involved and a tangy vinegar sauce. The lies. THE LIES

This is possibly the most offensive fast food item I have ever seen, ShakeShack.

God damn Yankees

Explain the offensiveness please to this Yankee.

It’s honestly two fold: One, Carolina has its own specific burger style involving chili and onions so for those in the know this is misleading Two, and most importantly, Carolina bbq is exclusive pork NOT beef and there should be nothing sweet about the sauce at all. This is a monstrosity!

It would be like a California based chain selling a “Philly cheesesteak style” burger that was a turkey patty with avocado and grilled onions and pepper

I would expect a Carolina bbq burger to have pulled pork involved and a tangy vinegar sauce. The lies. THE LIES

A vinegar sauce? Is the skyline ready for such a hyper-specific Discourse? I claim western NC roots, my BBQ sauce boasts a tomato base and I’ll hear no slander against it

There’s still vinegar even in the tomato sauce!

I make a tomato based sauce for my oven crispy pulled pork! It’s still v vinegary though

Tomato-based bbq sauce is just fancy ketchup* * yes I am allergic and will fight for the vinegar spicy sauce

even tomato based should still be vinegary and almost as loose as a hot sauce, but also I agree!!

The real shitty kind is Texas where it’s like gloppy steak sauce but kinda sweet

My best friend in my 20s and 30s was from South Carolina (she died of a rare kidney disease) and she gave me a banger vinegar type BBQ recipe that I’ve used for years. I also like Kansas City style bbq, too.

Thank God I’m listening to music otherwise I might have read aloud and thus heard this blatant and hateful slander against my culture

Hmmmm, smells like BBQ equivocation in here, but so gracefully done that I have no choice but to accept it

1) no, we are NOT prepared for that discourse 2) I knew nothing about BBQ until my very first Fall Fest when some local Chapel Hill place was handing out free sandwiches on South Rd. I took a bite and it was the best thing I'd ever tasted so I gotta go team vinegar on this one sorry

i heard somebody playing my music what’s going on

BBQ heresy is afoot

Yeah max over here is from the uppity mountain elites who like to look down on good wholesome hardworking honest eastern NC farmer bbq

Moar like tastes like ash-ville

My hayseed is just as valid as your’n, friend

Damn, it really be ya own Tar Heels

Vinegar, but I'm sure we can all agree that either is way better than that SC mustard abomination.

Memphian here and vinegar sauce is best sauce🤘

We're a large portion CFB message board refugees, and Prepared for the barbecue discourse.

The CFB populace is 95% of the reason I’m here, but I meant the specific nuance of North Carolina barbecue (in a completle joking way)

Raised in the eastern Carolina (dad is from low country SC and we hate Maurice's mustard BS) tradition, I still love Lexington style as a close second.

****opens chat**** Mustard is the best. Then pepper and vinegar and vinegar are tied. Then tomato is last. I come from tomato people, it’s not the best. ***closes chat*** ***opens chat back up*** Real BBQ is whole hog cooked in mop sauce. Anything else is a bastardization. *closes chat again*

You wound me, sir

Tomato is still good but just not my cup of sauce

Get out of here with your nuance (Totally get it)

Wait, who's mustard-based then?

Fringe

South Carolina

Oh, right. I knew that. (It rules.)

heathens, mostly

I'm very glad that I read down because the actual burger (aside from the pickles) didn't seem so offensive at first. Vinegar pork Uber alles.

My fav burger place in Cambridge (across the river from Boston) made up names for their burgers. What was their secret? Super fresh ingredients and cooking to order. Want it rare? You get it. Want it raw? It wouldn't hurt you. They still there? Have no idea.

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