For the past ten months the number-one question that has been asked of this blogger has been: “Do you know when the Short Sugar’s barbecue sauce is going to be for sale?”

It was back in January that Short Sugar’s Barbecue in Reidsville, North Carolina closed after almost eighty years of business.  It was news that shocked a lot of people.  I know.  For weeks it was THE item that spun the most traffic to this blog.  Folks as far away as Ireland, Australia and Brazil were coming to this site.  But that was nothing compared to the reactions that I saw on Facebook, among the people who for most if not all their lives had Short Sugar’s in the town they grew up in.  It was an institution, not just of Reidsville but of the entire state of North Carolina.

I could go on all night about that. ...

This blog has been SLAMMED with visitors since three days ago coming to read about Short Sugar’s Bar-B-Q in Reidsville, North Carolina shutting down after more than 75 years in business.  The counter has been ringing up visits from all fifty states, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Germany, even some people in Brazil. There were few corners of the globe that hadn’t heard of Short Sugar’s, it seems.  Judging by the comments and e-mails that have come in there have been a lot of folks who are regretting that they will now never have an opportunity to eat at a place that once was judged to have the best barbecue in America.  Short Sugar’s was the kind of place that they just don’t make anymore and it’s not just a loss to a small town, but to our culture as a whole.

Well, it’s been a very depressing past 72 hours but ...