"You Just Gotta Know that Smell."

Rudy Cobb of Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue Place, Farmville, NC.

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

Rudy Cobb: The Place is the Space

Rudy Cobb at Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue Place, Farmville, North Carolina. (Photo by Denny Culbert/ The Barbecue Bus)

No chairs, no tables, just a counter. Take your food and go. Its name is the stuff that could have been dreamed up by a Hollywood script department: Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue Place. It’s a joint where even the owner, Rudy Cobb, can’t pin down exactly how old the establishment is. Could be sixty years, might just be seventy.