Barbecue by Consensus.

William Morris, Jr. of Morris Barbeque, Hookerton, NC.

Click here to see our original text and photo profile of Morris Barbeque: http://www.thebarbecuebus.com/2011/12/saturday-in-pork.html

Recorded and cut by Rien Fertel. Shot and chopped by Denny Culbert.

Saturday in the Pork

William Morris, Jr. outside his smokehouse in Hookerton, North Carolina. (Photo by Denny Culbert/ The Barbecue Bus)

To find Hookerton’s only barbecue joint follow 1st Street southeast as it leads out of diminutive downtown Hookerton. The name of the cotton field-lined road you’re now driving along is named for the half-century-old plus smokehouse down a mile on the left. Yes, that’s right, Morris Barbeque is of such local import that the town went and named a highway after it.