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Stephen Colbert blasts NC barbecue as 'sauceless, vinegar-based meat product'

Losing would made anyone bitter.  But to go after the barbecue -- well, that's sacred.Disappointed that South Carolina voters did not elect his sister to Congress, Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" instead blasted North Carolina's barbecue as "sauceless, vinegar-based meat product."Elizabeth Colbert-Busch lost to disgraced former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford in Tuesday's congressional special election. Colbert, who grew up in Charleston, S.C. , said he felt betrayed, so he was "going to turn my back on South Carolina." He said he'd become a North Carolinian and give up his home state's barbecue tradition.His first act of defiance was to choke down North Carolina barbecue. "Instead I now officially love North Carolina's sauceless, vinegar-based meat product that they call barbecue." He then downs a bottle of South Carolina mustard barbecue sauce. Now, messing with a person's barbecue is serious business.  Pitmaster Greg Hatem, owner of The Pit in Raleigh, N....

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