Having grown up in actual western North Carolina, it always cracks me up when people from "Down East" talk about what they consider the western part of the state.
FWIW, there was a time when I considered Asheville "Down East", so what do I know?
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Having grown up in actual western North Carolina, it always cracks me up when people from "Down East" talk about what they consider the western part of the state.
FWIW, there was a time when I considered Asheville "Down East", so what do I know?
Western NC is basically the pointy part, west of greater Charlotte area and/or the Catawba River. Well, that's what I've always meant by western NC.
I first learned how far West NC goes when I camped at Fontana Lake one weekend while allegedly "studying" at Duke...
I remember friends at Duke from the Northeast asking me sometimes why we never took weekend road trips to Atlanta. I would respond with, "Why don't we take weekend road trips to Philly?" Same distance (ok, ok, Atlanta is a tiny bit closer.)
I have an autographed 1st Edition of The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje has my undying love. And if my life depended on reading more Hemingway, it would be The Old Man and The Sea, so, perhaps this discussion need not come to blows.
Somewhere Clemmons is saying "Dang nabbit!"
Speaking of Texas. I am going to Lewis BBQ in Charleston on Sunday. Charleston is a culinary delight anyway, but Lewis BBQ and Rodney Scott's are as good as it gets for Texas style brisket (John Lewis learned his trade in Austin and his brisket is sublime) and whole hog BBQ (Rodney Scott's). Tonight is a seafood night!
https://www.theringer.com/2017/8/22/16180430/soul-of-barbecue-charleston-south-carolina