DANVILLE - Short Sugar’s has been serving up its famous barbeque and sides for over twenty-five years in Danville. Locals love their chopped or pulled pork sandwiches.
Don Nodvedt says the friendly service keeps him coming back twice a week.
“It’s great food, but you get a service here. You get to know the girls. You know Donnie and the owner and they’re just great. You walk in and it’s just family,” said Nodvedt.
Pit Master Tim starts the process early in the morning out back in the pit house, where he flips the hams every thirty minutes. Tim says each one of the hams weighs about 20 pounds, and they go through about ten of them per day. He says their secret is cooking them slow and low.
Locals have been loving Shot Sugar’s barbeque for years, but back in 2008 they got a special visit from then presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“He came in and first of all he introduced himself to me and our staff. Then he walked around and talk and campaigned,” said Ainesworth.
Ainesworth says within minutes, they were mobbed with hundreds of people in the restaurant. Nearly two years later, he says people still come to eat where Obama ate.
“They come in and say well where did he stand and where did he sit. It’s been a pretty big impact,” said Ainesworth.
He says that impact has helped make them the most famous barbeque around and they’ll keep turning those hams, as long people come back to eat.
There is one other Short Sugar’s, in Reidsville North Carolina. The restaurant was started there in 1949.
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