Carolina BarbecueSauces (15)

Bone Suckin' Sweet Southern, Ford's Foods sauce

A Raleigh line of bottled sauces, of which the one that built the brand is Sweet Southern: cane sugar first, tomato puree second, water third, apple cider vinegar fourth, at six grams of sugar to the tablespoon.

tomato-and-sugar sauce, sweet red sauce, thick tomato barbecue sauce

A thick red sauce built on tomato — ketchup, paste or sauce — sweetened with brown sugar or molasses, soured with vinegar and seasoned with spices, cooked down until it clings.

Sam Jones Sweet BBQ Sauce, Sam Jones Vinegar

A bottled line from the whole-hog house Sam Jones opened at Winterville in 2015, third generation of the Skylight Inn family at Ayden.

George's Sauce, George's Original, George's of Nashville

A bottled sauce from Nashville, North Carolina, a Nash County town on the edge of the Coastal Plain, sold in three strengths: Original, Hot and Special.

dip, Lexington-style sauce, Piedmont sauce

The Piedmont's sauce: the east's vinegar, salt, pepper and red pepper with ketchup or tomato and water added, sometimes sugar, so that it comes out thin and reddish — tangy, a little sweet or hot by the house, and every…

light-tomato barbecue sauce, vinegar-and-ketchup sauce, thin red sauce

Vinegar-and-pepper sauce with ketchup added — enough to redden and sweeten it a little, not enough to thicken it — and often cayenne or a bottled hot sauce.

Golding Farms, Golding Blends

A Winston-Salem sauce manufacturer, the second of that city's two, and one whose output mostly reaches a table under someone else's name.

Southern Gold BBQ Sauce, Maurice's Gourmet Blend, Carolina Gold (former name)

The mustard sauce of Maurice's Piggie Park at West Columbia, sold in bottles, half gallons and gallons alongside the family's Hickory Red, Vinegar and Hot Pepper sauces.

Melvin's Original Golden Secret, Golden Secret Sauce

The mustard sauce of Melvin's Bar-B-Que in Charleston, sold in 16-ounce glass bottles, half gallons and gallons, beside the house's Southern Red, Sweet Red and Vinegar sauces.

Carolina Gold, South Carolina mustard sauce, yellow sauce

Prepared yellow mustard thinned with vinegar and sweetened with sugar or brown sugar, with black and red pepper and whatever else the house keeps to itself — Bessinger's bottled version listed mustard, brown sugar, soy…

Carolina Treet Cooking Barbecue Sauce, Carolina Treet Original

A Wilmington sauce that fits none of the four Carolina bases. Its label reads water, vinegar, wheat flour, salt, soybean oil, paprika, garlic, onion, xanthan gum, spices — no tomato, no mustard, no sugar.

Texas Pete Hot Sauce, Texas Pete Original

A cayenne-pepper hot sauce made by the T.W. Garner Food Company of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, since 1929 — mild as hot sauces go, 747 on the Scoville scale — in a flip-top bottle with a red cowboy on a…

Scott's Famous Barbecue Sauce, Adam Scott's sauce, Scott's of Goldsboro

A bottled eastern North Carolina sauce — vinegar-based, the recipe kept secret, sold as sugar-free and fat-free — made by the Scott family of Goldsboro since the mid-1940s from a recipe the Rev.

eastern sauce, Eastern North Carolina sauce, East Carolina sauce

Vinegar — cider or white — with salt, black pepper and crushed red pepper, and nothing else in its plainest form; some houses add sugar, a bottled hot sauce or lemon.

Hog Heaven, Wells Hog Heaven

A vinegar-based sauce made at Burgaw, the seat of Pender County in southeastern North Carolina, and sold in that corner of the state.