By Staff
Washington Noon Rotary News Release
Planners for the upcoming Smoke On The Water festival have added an exciting and tantalizing new offering for festival-goers who are planning to attend East Carolina University’s football home game in Greenville on Oct. 23.
Tailgate packs of barbecue and all the fixin’s will be prepared for easy transport to the game. Washington Noon Rotary will include the barbecue from the Smoke on the Water barbecue contest in the packs. Rotary President Jerry Evans noted the barbecue will be cooker by “state-champion cookers!”
Smoke On The Water will have at least 20 entries in the barbecue (whole-pig) contest from across the state and nation in Washington Oct. 22-23 to compete for the 2010 Smoke on the Water barbecue championship.
“These cooks are among the best of the best,” Evans said.
“These are some of the best barbecue-cookers from across the country,” said Frank Belote, Washington Noon Rotary’s president-elect.
He added, “The cost for two pounds of barbecue, a pint of cole slaw, eight buns and a 17-ounce bottle of the Original Smoke On The Water Barbecue Sauce is only $20. There’s enough food in this to feed a family and have a little left over.”
Belote noted that if purchased in a local restaurant, the cost for such a meal would be at least $30 to $35, and it would have been prepared in a commercial setting in bulk quantities.
“This barbecue will be cooked by the masters of pig-smoking who will tend to their individual pigs from Friday night through contest time Saturday morning,” he said.
Washington Noon Rotary will have the sauce available for purchase at the festival for $7 per bottle.
When asked about the barbecue sauce, Spencer Stanley, festival chairman beamed with pride. Stanley is a seasoned, skilled pig-smoker whose brainchild is the Washington Noon Rotary’s Original Smoke On The Water Barbecue Sauce. He has been around barbecue long enough to know the kind of sauce that complements smoked pork without overpowering its natural flavor. The sauce is his select recipe, and it has been produced by a North Carolina company solely for Smoke On The Water.
After getting his first taste of the product, Belote was clearly impressed saying, “This sauce is a class act.”
Evans reported that the tailgate packs will be available from about noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 23 in the parking lots of each of the Food Lion locations in Washington and Chocowinity.
“They (the tailgate packs) are affordable. They’re really a great deal and an easy tailgate meal to enjoy before the game or for dinner at home Saturday evening,” Evans said.