They came from across the state and beyond, 22 teams of men and women wanting to show they cook the best pig at the Garden City Bar-B-Q Cook-Off.

In the end, the winner was Taste of Wando (S.C.), which featured Roscoe Kellahan working over a cooker embossed with the silver ladies of mud flap fame, who was trying a new recipe for pork barbecue for the very first time.

Before he won the contest, he fretted maybe he should have stayed with the old sauce. This time he added more ketchup and more vinegar.

“I should have stayed with the tried and true,” he said as he leaned over the hog’s skin, which had three different piles of pork. One was flavored with his regular sauce, another with the contest sauce, the final one with a hard vinegar sauce he said would mellow after a couple hours on the heat.

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