Joseph,
Welcome to the SCBA. Wishing you great success in all your barbecue endeavors.

See you at The Grillers Cup and Good Luck.

Dawn Verbarg
SCBA Marshal

--Previous Message--
: I'd like to introduce myself. I am Joseph
: Fuqua, owner of Pop Pop's Pit BBQ in Myrtle
: Beach. I just officially joined the SCBA.
: Sorry for the delay. I love what you guys
: do and appreciate all the hard work that
: goes into running the site and all the
: events. I have a small BBQ restaurant on the
: terrible part of the road that is 707. It
: was the only place that we could afford to
: open in. It's a very hard location and I
: have my hands tied in the way I want to do
: real BBQ. I'd love to do whole hogs over
: open pits. I don't have the space or
: availability to do that. I do cook butts,
: brisket, ribs and chicken over coals and
: wood. I do have a Cookshack that I use to
: heat and hold at at. It is a must have in
: the restaurant business. I would like to
: address a few things if I can. The
: restaurant business is incredibly hard. I
: work well over 80 hours a week and don't
: take a steady paycheck. It's very hard on my
: family. Our customers love our homemade
: sauces. After 2 years, 95% of people request
: that the meats be sauced before serving. I
: know that adding sauce to your own BBQ is
: what is traditional. When the sauce is
: heated, it gives a very different, intense
: flavor. It's the same when hot sauce is
: served at room temperature or cooked. It
: just adds more flavor. That's why we won
: the Chicken Bog Championship last week. We
: put as much flavor into every bite as we
: can. We have quite a few customers that
: just love our dry rubbed meats. I customize
: everything the way you want it. If you do
: choose to give us a shot, I promise you that
: no one cares more about what you want than I
: do. We are far from perfect and try to
: improve every day. It's a very fine line
: from pleasing the average customer and
: trying to please BBQ Purists. My business
: depends on local repeat customers. Thank you
: for letting me be apart of this great
: organization. We will be competing in the
: Grillers cup this weekend. I hope to meet a
: lot of new friends this weekend. I love BBQ
: and others that appreciate the art of BBQ.
: