garnetpalmetto
Jerkministrator
Mustard sauce is native to SC and generally what people understand "South Carolina Style" to mean, correct? I realize not all of the state uses it, but a pretty large part of the state does, and the mustard sauce is pretty much exclusively used in that state, so South Carolina is fairly associated with it, even though it's not universal.
I don't know about native - it's also found in parts of Georgia, particularly the Geechee areas around Savannah, but it is predominantly confined to that Midlands down to Charleston and Beaufort corridor as outlined in the map owing to the settlement of Palitane Germans in the area.
My argument is that people who understand "South Carolina Style" to mean mustard based are as ignorant as the people who understand "Carolina Style" to mean vinegar and pepper base. It completely ignores that there are large swaths of the state where you won't find it. If I went to a barbeque restaurant in Batesburg-Leesville, Greenville, Abbeville, and Conway, and asked for "South Carolina Style" barbeque I'm going to get 4 different types of sauce, only 1 of which is mustard based. It's an oversimplification of culinary diversity that fails to do that diversity any justice.