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 "id": "hites-bar-b-q",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "Hite's Bar-B-Que",
  "aliases": [
   "Hite's BBQ",
   "Hite's Bar-B-Q",
   "Hite's"
  ],
  "sort": "Hite's"
 },
 "region": [
  "sc-midlands",
  "sc"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "state": "SC",
  "status": "open",
  "founded": "1957",
  "fuel": "wood",
  "styles": [
   "sc-mustard"
  ]
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A take-out barbecue stand on Dreher Road in West Columbia, open only on Friday and Saturday, where the Hite family has cooked whole hogs and hams over oak and hickory coals since 1957. It sells chopped pork, ham, ribs, pork skins, chicken, hash and rice and slaw by the plate and the pound, with a yellow mustard sauce applied lightly; there is no dining room, only picnic tables by a pond. The hash — the Midlands' stew of pork and onion — is made in cast-iron kettles over wood embers. It is not Jackie Hite's of Batesburg-Leesville, some twenty-five miles west, which closed in 2018.",
  "story": "John D. Hite farmed on Dreher Road — minnows, hogs, corn and sweet potatoes — and in 1957 began selling barbecue as a side project, a farmer looking for extra income. The stand stayed a two-day business beside the farm and passed to his grandson David Hite, who runs it with the family recipes and, in the words of the restaurant's site, 'the age-old process for cooking barbeque'. Destination BBQ describes that process: coals rendered in a modified campfire fashion, then shoveled, 'payload after smoky payload', under whole hogs and hams until the meat is lacquered with smoke. The hash is cooked the old way in cast-iron kettles over wood embers, and the stand makes an onion sausage that Destination BBQ calls unique to the Midlands. *Inference —* the Dreher Road Hites and Jackie Hite of Leesville share a Lexington County surname and a mustard sauce; no source in this project links the two businesses.",
  "how": "Whole hogs and hams cook on a pit over oak and hickory coals. The meat is chopped and lightly dressed with a mustard sauce whose base is a strong yellow mustard. Orders are plates — pork, rib or chicken with hash, rice, slaw and rolls — or sandwiches, or meat by the pound, all to go; picnic tables by the pond are the only seating. Hash simmers in cast-iron kettles over wood embers; pork skins and onion sausage are the extras.",
  "today": "Open Friday and Saturday only. The restaurant's site gives 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days; Destination BBQ recorded 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 8 to 6 Saturday. Take-out only. 240 Dreher Road, West Columbia. Checked September 15, 2026."
 },
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   "as": "the style: a Lexington County farm stand with a strong yellow mustard sauce.",
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   "as": "its sauce, applied lightly — the base is a strong yellow mustard.",
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  },
  {
   "to": "hash-and-rice",
   "as": "kettle hash over wood embers, the old way, on every plate.",
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   "to": "hickory-and-oak",
   "as": "its wood, burned to coals campfire-fashion and shoveled under the meat.",
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  {
   "to": "jackie-hites-bar-b-q",
   "as": "the other Hite's, in Leesville, closed in 2018; same surname, same county, no business link shown.",
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  {
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   "as": "the other West Columbia mustard house: a chain of eight beside this two-day stand.",
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  {
   "id": "jackie-hites-bar-b-q",
   "tell": "Hite's is the Dreher Road stand in West Columbia, open Friday and Saturday since 1957. Jackie Hite's was James 'Jackie' Hite's whole-hog buffet house in Leesville, 1979 to 2018."
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 33.978304,
  "lon": -81.0928311,
  "precision": "street",
  "source": "Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) geocode of 240 Dreher Rd, 2026-09-15"
 },
 "address": {
  "street": "240 Dreher Rd",
  "city": "West Columbia",
  "county": "Lexington",
  "state": "SC",
  "postcode": "29169"
 },
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Hite's Bar-B-Que — official",
   "url": "https://www.hitesbbq.com/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Hite's Bar-B-Que — Destination BBQ",
   "url": "https://destination-bbq.com/stores/hites-bar-b-que/"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-09-16",
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  },
  {
   "tag": "weekends-only",
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   "note": "Friday and Saturday only; take-out only, picnic tables by the pond the sole seating."
  },
  {
   "tag": "hash",
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   "note": "Hash and rice, made in cast-iron kettles over wood embers."
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   "Sa"
  ],
  "closed": [
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   "Mo",
   "Tu",
   "We",
   "Th"
  ],
  "text": "Friday and Saturday only, 10 to 6.",
  "source": "s:web-hites-about",
  "url": "https://www.hitesbbq.com/about-hites-bar",
  "tier": "cited",
  "checked": "2026-09-16",
  "note": "Destination BBQ recorded 8 to 7 Friday and 8 to 6 Saturday; the days agree."
 },
 "blurb": "A take-out barbecue stand on Dreher Road in West Columbia, open only on Friday and Saturday, where the Hite family has cooked whole hogs and hams over oak and hickory coals since 1957.",
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  },
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