...is the original old fashioned pit-cooked barbeque, as was done in colonial days."

Items like fresh pork, ribs, beef or chicken, are pit-cooked slowly over hickory coals (dry heat) until ready. While the meat is being cooked it is basted with our heirloom secret recipe sauce, which enhances the flavor. We have greatly improved on the barbeque technique over the last 55 years.

Southern Living Magazine describes Maurice Bessinger's Piggie Park as South Carolina's "premiere" establishment that "has mastered it's barbeque."

A leading New York newspaper lists Maurice Bessinger's Piggie Park as one of the best barbeque houses in the country.

We believe we have truly mastered the barbeque technique.

There are a great many details that make a good barbeque. Among them are the use of our old-fashioned brick enclosed pits and using a special type of wood. Other things to be considered are determining the proper cooking time, temperature, and how the hams will be handled after cooking. I believe I know barbequing as well  as any man in the world. For many years now I’ve had the reputation of serving famous quality foods and special sauces in South Carolina.

In recent years, Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc., has marketed my famous heirloom Gourmet Blend Southern Gold BBQ Sauce. It has grown in a period of ten years to the number one selling barbeque sauce in many Southern markets and is very popular throughout the United States and bordering areas. It is an exclusive, unique, Southern Gold mustard based barbeque sauce and is packaged in four flavors: Original, available in both retail and institutional sizes, and Honey, Spicy, and Hickory, available in retail size.

I believe it is the best quality barbeque sauce in the world, made with the finest imported herbs and spices that money can buy. It is all natural with no preservatives. It is truly a gourmet treat!