The Beginning

So here it is...the start of Two Guys and A Pig Barbecue.  Over the course of the past year, the four of us  started out as acquaintances, became friends who went on double dates every few weekends,  and now it is nearly every weekend we find ourselves together doing something fun.  The best part of our friendship is that it always involves food, usually from more than one restaurant.  The first evening we hung out, we ended up at three different restaurants and stayed out until the wee hours of the morning.  So food remains the center of our friendship, we figure out whats for dinner and then everything else just falls into place.   One of our favorites is The Pit in Raleigh.  Their ribs are wonderful, the barbecue is always perfect and the best part was the pimento barbecue cheese fries.  We LOVE food!  Little did we know this love would turn into a hobby and hopefully a future business.

In December during a Pampered Chef party, the boys (DJ and Hunter) came up with an idea.  This idea combined their love for cooking and their friendship.  They wanted to compete in barbecue competitions around the state.  As the evening progressed, they came up with their name and logo which was then presented to Ashley and I following the party.  We just looked at each other and smiled, not knowing how this might turn out. So I present to you, the beginning:

Hunter's dad had an old pig cooker and the weekend work began.  Hunter and DJ would get together every weekend, polishing and painting and working on this cooker.  Hunter's dad put a lot of hard work and effort into the wood work of the cooker.  They had their first competition set at the beginning of April in Newport, NC, but there was one slight problem.  This problem being they had very little practice actually working together and cooking a perfect pig.  So like every problem the boys have, the women solved it.  We decided to have a party, a big party and of course it involved a pig!