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Finger Lickin' Goodness
Salt Lick Continues Tradition of Great BBQ
Martha H Dixon
The legend says, "Build it and they will come." That's what happened to the Salt Lick barbecue restaurant. In 1967, Thurman Roberts dragged his heel in a circle in a field beside a back country road out in the middle of nowhere. He built a barbecue pit in that circle. "People would drive by and smell the barbecue smoke and stop to buy some to take home,"
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