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Don't forget the NC hotdog. All the way. Chili, mustard, onions, and slaw.
Way out on Walkerstown Road, past the small regional airport in Winston-Salem is J.S. Pulliams Barbecue. Visitors can go for the barbecue, but hot dogs are the reason people go to Pulliams. Open for more than a century (a sign on the building says 1910), Pulliams does business from an old black and white striped shack with a huge Cheerwine sign over the front door. Inside the walls are covered in an archive of NASCAR souvenirs and memorabilia. NASCAR, barbecue, bright red hotdogs and Cheerwine? It doesn’t get more North Carolina than that.
The red dogs are griddled to a slight char on a flat top and served in a buttery, golden, griddled bun. Get one all the way (you know this by now: chili, mustard, onions and slaw) and eat it standing over the counter or take it outside and eat in a small grove of old tree stumps. Pulliams mild chili and homemade white slaw are great but you might want to spice it up a bit. Texas Pete hot sauce is ever-present in North Carolina restaurants (it’s made 2 miles away on Indiana Avenue in Winston-Salem).