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Pork provides protein, B-vitamins and thiamin to our diets. Pork has three times as much thiamin as any other food.

A baby pig, or piglet, weighs about 2 ½ pounds at birth and will double its weight in just seven days.

$56,000 was paid for a crossbreed hog named "Bud," on March 5, 1985

Anyone want to share a part of your secret recipe?

There is only a very fine line between "smoking meat" and barbeque and that line is temperature. Smoking takes days, BBQ takes many hours.

Hernando de Soto, a Spanish explorer, brought the first pig to North America in 1539. Cows didn’t get here until 1611 with the Pilgrims.

The Carolina's share three of the four types of barbeque sauce that Americans normally use. But only South Carolina is the home of all four

A full grown pig can drink up to 14 gallons of water a day.

Mustard Style sauces that are distinct to South Carolina can be attributed to the large amount of German descendants.

The first BBQ sauce dates back hundreds of years and consists of vinegar and pepper.

Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer of Pennsylvania patented a design for charcoal briquettes in 1897.

@rockstarbbq That File Cabinet Smoker looks awesome! How'd it end up working?

@BBQTricks Any tips on how to hold a constant temperature for smoking?

@PlowboysBBQ What elevates a rub into super BBQdom?

@bbqmaven I'm working on the quality of my bark, any tips?

The CIA could learn a few things from a BBQ'er. Just try getting a rub recipe from anyone at a competition!

@PsychSmokeBBQ What's in the smoker?

@PegLegPorker Thanks for the tip! I'll keep it in mind next year.

Everyone love BBQ but everyone has a slightly different meaning of what BBQ is. What's your definition?

@dukesofque Sounds delicious, do you put that on everything?