PigBadWolf

I want to say that I think my very first food truck dining experience in Raleigh was probably Only Burger while they were serving lunch one day on NC State's Centennial Campus. It was a novelty way back then that has since seen an overabundance of overpriced (and not so tasty eats for the cost) food trucks around the City of Oaks and seen Only Burger open a brick-and-mortar establishment in their home base of Durham. It was a fantastic burger back then and it's a fantastic burger now. Facing...

There's off the beaten path and then there's so far off the path you feel like you're being beaten just trying to get where you're going. Vine Swamp Road in Lenoir County has to be the jankiest, most uneven bumpy bump-fest I've ever been on... and that includes two hours of traversing a Nicaraguan dried riverbed while sitting on the rusty fender well of a shock absorber-defunct pick-up truck. I mean, it is crazy janky. So it's kinda perfect that a barbecue joint pretty much in the middle of...

An evening photo shoot at Duke had me in Durham the other day and the scheduling meant there'd be no time for dinner at the "normal" time, so I opted for eating on the early side and searched for some barbecue close to East Campus. I found Hog Heaven Bar-B-Q just north of where I needed to be. I'd never been, so I was on lock. The online reviews were all over the place. "Love it! Hate it!" Hog Heaven was either "God's gift of BBQ" or "Nasty as hell." Not much in between it seemed. That just...