hot dogs everywhere: dick’s drive-in

59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Dick’s Drive-In (Eden, NC – Rockingham County) What: Chili cheese dogs With whom: me myself and I Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: B+. Red Brightleaf dogs, with flavorful chili and toasted buns. And the cheese was under the dog, which always helps with melting.

hot dogs everywhere: cle’s grilled food

59. Eat a hot dog in every North Carolina county. Where: Cle’s Grilled Food (Halifax County, NC) What: chili cheese dog With whom: J & M Why: 100 Hot Dogs in 100 Counties Grade: C. Chili was good, Carolina red dog was mid, the cheese slice wasn’t melted. Their fried okra was wildly phenomenal, though.

life list: lake mattamuskeet

65. Visit the top ten natural wonders in North Carolina. We stopped at Lake Mattamuskeet on our way to the Outer Banks last month, and it’s pretty darn wondrous. Water as far as the eye can see, and lots of wildlife. The water treatment building shown in the second photo is being renovated into a…

100 foods in 100 counties: dare county

58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Hatteras style clam chowder – the food for Dare County, at Sam and Omie’s, a long-time fisherman’s haunt – is a broth-based soup, and let me tell you what, the folks sitting behind us were pissed about this….

100 foods in 100 counties: currituck county

58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. The choice for Currituck County, the furthest northeastern county in North Carolina, was the crab cake at the Oceanfront Grille in Corolla. As a Marylander, I am extremely snobby about crab cakes, and I can tell you that…

100 foods in 100 counties: warren county

58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Warren County! I’m unsure if I had ever driven through Warren County before this weekend, but we headed up to Ridgeway for the annual Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival, to cross a 100 Foods item off the list. We brought…

100 foods in 100 counties: bertie county

58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Did I expect to find the Bertie County food in a general store in Germanton, NC, in Stokes County, on my way to Hanging Rock State Park with a friend? No. Did I snap them up? Yes. Am I…

100 foods in 100 counties: vance county

Vance County – Henderson – Country Snacks Manufacturing: Popcorn Cracklins These are a staple of independently owned North Carolina gas station mini marts, and they were fine. If you like fried pork products, you’ll like them. I don’t. So.

100 foods in 100 counties: randolph county

Randolph County – Asheboro – Sir Pizza of Asheboro: Royal Feast Pizza Visited after a trip to the NC Zoo. There is a particular kind of satisfaction that you get from a frozen pizza, and Sir Pizza gave me that satisfaction of taste combined with a much higher quality. Would eat again.