Forbes Holiday Gift Guide 2025: The Best ‘Made In North Carolina’ Food and Beverage Gifts
We're honored to see our Sauces & Spices Gift Set featured in Forbes' Holiday Gift Guide, celebrating the best food and beverage gifts made in North Carolina. It's always special when our products get recognized alongside other great North Carolina makers.
This gift set represents everything we do in the pit—our four signature dry rubs and both of our sauces, all in one package. It's the same seasonings we use every day on whole hogs at our Winterville and Raleigh locations, now ready for backyard cooks to take home and make their own magic.
Being part of North Carolina's culinary story is something we take seriously. When folks gift our sauces and spices, they're sharing a little piece of Eastern North Carolina tradition with the people they care about. That means the world to us.
Forbes (December 11, 2025) - “For an authentic taste of Eastern North Carolina barbecue, this sauce captures the vinegar-based tradition that defines the region’s legendary pit-cooked pork. The sauces and spices set is the full experience: Sam Jones’ classic Rub Potion No. Swine BBQ rub, Fish Out of Water Rub for seafood, For Goodness Steak Rub for beef and brisket, Salt of the Earth all-purpose seasoning salt, plus two signature sauces.”