Being a native from eastern N. Carolina, and Farmville, BBQ was everywhere growing up. I am a BBQ enthusiast and I also make my own many times, but the the taste of Jack Cobb's BBQ is second to none. As another reviewer noted, I regard it as highly as the Skylight Inn, B's and many others in the area. I recently stopped through on Memorial day weekend and got the BBQ, slaw and hushpuppy deal and once I tasted it, I think my childhood flashed before me. It was excellent. The BBQ was chopped, tinder pork greatness, vinegared and peppered to perfection and as others noted, no undesirables were in it, just top quality great chopped pork. The vinegar based slaw has always been great and is an excellent topping. The crunchy exterior and moist interior hushpuppies are a work of art. All the best to Jack Cobb, Mike and the Cobb family, they are cookin up some legacy BBQ that has survived generations.
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Plain & Simple As It Gets - And Simply One Of The Very Best. This is 100 Mile Barbecue, even 155 Mile Barbecue (distance from Greensboro) - just gotta hope it is open when you get there. First time there - wrong day - Wed, Fri & Sat only, picked a Thur. Second try there - right day, still was not open for business, despite opening time posted as 8:30 AM - arrived at 9:30, nobody home, nobody in place.
Today was different - got lucky, met some really nice folks who offer quality barbecue pig not often encountered - vintage Eastern NC BBQ that rivals Skylight Inn, Wilber's, Grady's, Ken's Grill, B's, Allen & Son in Chapel Hill, and the original White Swan in Smithfield. This BBQ belongs in this company.
This place is small, plain in the tradition of great BBQ joints like Grady's, White Swan, and Skylight Inn - in other words, pretty much a dive. There is a funkiness to the interio - worn and dim, but with UNC Basketball posters and a calander on the wall behind the front counter - someone is a big Tar Heel fan.
Arrived at 10 AM, Closed sign was in the door ( heart did not stop, but it missed a beat or two), but there was movement inside, so I sucked it up, and knocked on the door. A very nice gentleman opened the door, and I ask if I could get some barbecue - he said I could, but little else was ready, including the hushpuppies - obviously Collards were out of the question. I assured him, it was the BBQ I wanted - I ordered a BBQ Sandwich with slaw, and 2 pounds of BBQ to go - sight unseen, and as yet, untasted.
We scurried outside with our haul, pounds in the cooler, sandwich upfront with paper towels and a Diet Pepsi (one gives in where one must). The sandwich was amazing - the BBQ moist, tender, no grease, no bits or pieces of strange matter - the slaw a nice mayo based one, with just the right, lite touch of mustard. This BBQ is much like Ken's Grill in its clean taste and texture. Overall the sandwich was on par with that at Skylight Inn - as good as it gets.
Excellent! Be sure to try the greens!
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