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- Saturday, Oct 19, 2024 11am-11pm
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$5 barbecue sandwiches AND $5 Clouds Brewing Baltic Porters for National Whole Hog Barbecue Day, Saturday, Oct. 19!
We'll be cookin' up whole hogs on the pit and making our signature Eastern N.C. barbecue sandwiches for you to dig into. Come hang & celebrate the tradition and history of authentic whole hog barbecue.
🔥 NATIONAL WHOLE HOG BARBECUE DAY HISTORY 🔥
In 2022, The Pit Authentic Barbecue in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded National Whole Hog Barbecue Day to celebrate the traditions and history associated with whole hog barbecue. Each year during the third Saturday in October, we recommend everyone find some place to host or attend a whole hog barbecue celebration.
The tradition started in 1980 in Halifax County, North Carolina, when friends reunited at the Roanoke River for a pig pickin’. Then in 1983, the tradition moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where friends gathered again during the third weekend in October to go to the N.C. State Fair and celebrate the fall harvest with whole-hog barbecue. The festivities moved to downtown Raleigh in 2007 with the opening of The Pit Authentic Barbecue, which has been serving whole-hog barbecue ever since. The restaurant opened for guests in Raleigh who didn’t have time to drive into Eastern North Carolina to get their taste of whole-hog barbecue.