Condiment
Carolina Vinegar Style
S tier
Carolina vinegar sauce is thin, hot-pepper, cider-vinegar, sometimes a little tomato or mustard depending on east vs west. It soaks pulled pork rather than sitting as a glaze. Sugar is modest. A mop and a table splash. KC sauce will make the pork candy if you wanted this.
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Characteristics
Preparations
MopPulled PorkTable
Traits
East HogHot PepperModest SugarNot ThickPorkSplashThin MopVinegar Pepper
History
US
Eastern Carolina whole-hog pits used a vinegar-pepper sauce, not tomato paste.
US
The vinegar mop stayed the Carolina identity against Midwest tomato sauces.
Carolina vinegar sauce was bottled for people who found KC too sweet.