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 "id": "cannons-bbq",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "Cannon's BBQ",
  "aliases": [
   "Cannons BBQ",
   "Cannons BBQ & More",
   "Cannon's"
  ],
  "sort": "Cannon's"
 },
 "region": [
  "sc-midlands",
  "sc"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "state": "SC",
  "status": "closed",
  "fuel": "wood",
  "styles": [
   "sc-mustard"
  ]
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A small barbecue house in a converted mobile home at a five-way crossroads in Little Mountain, Newberry County — the Dutch Fork, the German-settled land between the Broad and Saluda rivers where the Midlands mustard sauce is at home. The Cannons cooked over wood coals they burned down themselves and chopped the pork for a sauce with a concentrated yellow-mustard taste; the ribs fell off the bone, and the hash — the Midlands' stew of pork and onion, here tinged bright yellow with mustard — is what Robert Moss remembered it for. It has closed: Moss, writing in March 2020, called it recently closed.",
  "story": "Little Mountain sits off Interstate 26 at exit 91, and Cannon's sat a few miles from the exit in a modified mobile home at a 'five points' intersection, with an overfilled dumpster and wood strewn about the lot when Destination BBQ came in March 2014 — the wood being the point, since the Cannons burned their own coals. The reviewers found the pork chopped finer than they liked, the ribs falling off the bone, the hash good and the sauce 'typical of the Midlands: mustard based', with a very concentrated yellow-mustard flavor. Robert Moss, telling the story of hash and rice in 2020, used it as his example of the mustard-yellow hash: 'At the recently-closed Cannon's BBQ in Little Mountain, S.C., the hash was tinged bright yellow with mustard.' *Tradition holds —* the Cannon brothers ran it about fifteen years and served the last plates on July 4, 2019, a closing the Columbia station WLTX reported that June.",
  "how": "Pork chopped and sauced with a yellow-mustard sauce, ribs that fell from the bone, and hash — pork and onion cooked down to a spoonable stew — tinged bright yellow with mustard and served over rice, all cooked over wood coals the family burned down on the lot. The building was a mobile home fitted out as a dining room, the lot a woodyard.",
  "today": "Closed. Robert Moss described it as recently closed in March 2020; no reopening is recorded in this project's sources as of September 15, 2026. The coordinates here are the town's, not the building's."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "sc-mustard",
   "as": "its style: Dutch Fork mustard, in the sauce and in the hash.",
   "rel": "whole"
  },
  {
   "to": "mustard-sauce",
   "as": "its sauce, with a concentrated yellow-mustard taste.",
   "rel": "sauce"
  },
  {
   "to": "hash-and-rice",
   "as": "its hash was the mustard-yellow kind, the one Moss chose as his example.",
   "rel": "serves"
  },
  {
   "to": "dutch-fork",
   "as": "the country it stood in: German-settled land between the Broad and the Saluda, home ground of the mustard sauce.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "robert-moss",
   "as": "the historian who used its hash as his example of the Midlands' mustard-tinged kind.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "to": "hites-bar-b-q",
   "as": "the nearest open kettle-hash house of the same style, in West Columbia.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 34.1962557,
  "lon": -81.4123229,
  "precision": "town",
  "source": "Nominatim (OpenStreetMap): Little Mountain town centre, 2026-09-15"
 },
 "address": {
  "city": "Little Mountain",
  "county": "Newberry",
  "state": "SC",
  "postcode": "29075"
 },
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "The Story of Hash & Rice — Robert F. Moss (2020)",
   "url": "https://robertfmoss.com/features/The-Story-of-South-Carolina-Hash-and-Rice"
  },
  {
   "label": "Cannon's BBQ — Destination BBQ review (2014)",
   "url": "https://destination-bbq.com/update/"
  }
 ],
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  "s:web-destination-bbq-update-cannons",
  "s:wp-dutch-fork",
  "s:wp-hash-stew",
  "s:osm"
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  },
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    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-destination-bbq-update-cannons",
    "note": "the closing date and the fifteen years come from a WLTX report of June 2019 that this project could not fetch; marked as tradition inline"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "cited",
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   },
   "geo": {
    "tier": "harvested",
    "source": "s:osm",
    "note": "town centre only; the Nursery Road address did not geocode"
   },
   "address": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "town, county and postcode only; the street address seen in directory listings was not verified"
   }
  }
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 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "tags": [
  {
   "tag": "closed",
   "source": "s:web-moss-hash-and-rice-2020",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "Robert Moss described it as recently closed in March 2020; no reopening is in this project's sources.",
   "since": "2020"
  },
  {
   "tag": "wood-cooked",
   "source": "s:web-moss-hash-and-rice-2020",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "Cooked over wood coals the family burned down themselves on the lot."
  },
  {
   "tag": "hash",
   "source": "s:web-moss-hash-and-rice-2020",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "Hash tinged bright yellow with mustard, over rice — what Moss remembered it for."
  }
 ],
 "blurb": "A small barbecue house in a converted mobile home at a five-way crossroads in Little Mountain, Newberry County — the Dutch Fork, the German-settled land between the Broad and Saluda rivers where the Midlands mustard…",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "sc-midlands",
   "name": "The South Carolina Midlands",
   "state": "SC",
   "note": "Columbia and the counties around it, including the Dutch Fork; the mustard belt"
  },
  {
   "key": "sc",
   "name": "South Carolina",
   "state": "SC"
  }
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   "type": "style",
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  {
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  {
   "to": "hash-and-rice",
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   "rel": "serves"
  },
  {
   "to": "dutch-fork",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Dutch Fork",
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  },
  {
   "to": "hites-bar-b-q",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Hite's Bar-B-Que",
   "as": "the nearest open kettle-hash house of the same style, in West Columbia.",
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   "url": "https://robertfmoss.com/features/The-Story-of-South-Carolina-Hash-and-Rice",
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   "id": "s:web-destination-bbq-update-cannons",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Reviews of Several SC Barbecue Restaurants — Cannon's BBQ, Little Mountain (March 30, 2014; updated August 29, 2024)",
   "publisher": "Destination BBQ",
   "url": "https://destination-bbq.com/update/",
   "accessed": "2026-09-15"
  },
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   "id": "s:wp-dutch-fork",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Dutch Fork — Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Fork",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
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   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Hash (stew) — Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_(stew)",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "note": "revision 1334401453"
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   "id": "s:osm",
   "kind": "dataset",
   "title": "OpenStreetMap — places tagged cuisine=barbecue in North Carolina and South Carolina",
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   "license": "ODbL 1.0",
   "note": "harvested by tools/harvest_osm.py via the Overpass API; share-alike"
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