"Can we have some more, Granddad?"

That is what all the grandchildren would say on Sundays, when he prepared barbecue chicken. We would take Grandma's fresh biscuits and dip them right in to the sauce: ummm good.

It was back in the early 1970's, when he originated the scrumptious sauce and soon found out that when you have something good, it doesn't take long for the word to get out. It wasn't long before his friends and co-workers were asking him to make it for them. Even when the pastor "came calling:" the real reason was to get some more of Granddad's sauce.

In the late 1980's when I learned to barbecue, all my friends would ask me, "Where did you get that delicious sauce,"

I would just say, "Oh, it's just something my Granddad threw together."

So, after years of unsuccessfully trying to copy his sauce, I eventually went to see him one Saturday afternoon. "Granddad," I begged, "Please give me the recipe of your barbecue sauce. I swear, it is the best in all of North Carolina"

That Saturday Afternoon, Granddad kindly offered the greatest gift a young man could ever receive - the recipe to the best barbecue sauce in North Carolina. With my concoction of Granddad's soon-to-be-famous recipe, my friends begged me to make it for them and I did. After a bit, however; my friend's friends requested the sauce and so on and so forth, and well, you get the idea. I found myself spending way too much time making barbecue sauce and at the urging of my friends (who I never saw anymore because I was constantly fixing Granddad's barbecue sauce - for them), I began bottling that sauce and selling it.

I'm just sorry that my ole Granddad, who passed on in 2002, could not see how far his sauce had come. Hopefully, he is smiling at our success from the great the beyond.

Well, the name was my idea. Coondog was hung on me 15 years ago. It kind'a stuck.

We have found that "Coondog's Barbecue Sauce" is good on everything from chicken to egg biscuits. So don't be afraid to try it with anything!

So, try "Coondog's Barbecue Sauce," it will stick to you like the name stuck to me.