Submitter here. I am amused and puzzled as well. Apparently people care more about barbecue than they do about the more 'hacker-ish' things I've submitted. I've long since given up trying to predict the tastes of HN voters - nowadays I just submit anything I find personally interesting.

Ha. And now it's been flagged off the front page. Apparently people both like and hate stories about barbecue! Fascinating.

I disagree, I found this submission to be entertaining and informative.

I didn't upvote it, but by its title, I thought it was going to mostly be about how different regions have different style BBQ. And those regions generally have a strong dislike for the other regions' styles.

Stupid articles from the New Yorker always seem to hit the front page, no matter what they are about.

Going to throw out a guess that it's got something to do with this buried lede:

> Lexington County, which encompasses all but one of the dozen Piggie Park restaurants now in operation, remains a bedrock of hard-right politics.

Also: Confederate flags, awful Southern white people, and some folks who moved down from PG County buying property from the latter and looking to get rid of the former. Is it too blithe to say "culture war, move on"?

Being southern or "from the south" and white does not make one automatically awful. That kind of stereotyping is literally what found us in such a political mess and should be discouraged. Please knock it off. If you were to say awful racist white people, I'd agree, but shockingly, there are plenty of awful racist white people in the north as well as the south, they're just louder down south.

Note: I'm white, from the south, am a veteran, also tend to lean liberal and work as a software engineer in the 3rd biggest city in the US. I think of myself as progressive and voted for Gary Johnson this election.

I suppose I could've made it more clear that I was characterizing the article's take, rather than expressing one of my own. I'm a Mississippi son myself.

Ah my bad. I have to constantly correct people who equate southern with stupid. It gets old.