Augusta restauranteur looks back on barbecue with the president

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – No matter’s within the sauce at Sconyers Bar-B-Que, it was sufficient to be a magnet for the president of the US.

That president was Georgia’s personal Jimmy Carter.

Again in 1980, Larry Sconyers took his barbecue operation from Augusta to the nation’s capital and cooked on the White Home garden for members of Congress and the president himself.

We sat down with the previous mayor as he talked about that big day.

Greater than 40 years later, the reminiscences from that day dwell in footage on the partitions contained in the Sconyers Bar-B-Que restaurant off Bobby Jones Expressway in Augusta.

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Like several southern restaurant proprietor, it’s Larry Sconyers’s pleasure to serve the meals on his grill recognized throughout.

“I like to inform folks we went from the poor home to the White Home,” he mentioned.

Greater than 40 years in the past, Sconyers loaded up his grill.

“Pork hen, ribs, beef. And naturally, our conventional hash and rice and candy tea,” mentioned Sconyers.

Every part wanted to arrange a feast match for a president.

“I keep in mind he got here up, he mentioned, ‘oh man, I’m glad to see you people from Georgia over right here.’ He was extra excited to see us than we have been to see him,” he mentioned.

The thrill for Sconyers is how he launched a style of Augusta to Carter.

“It gave loads of pleasure not solely to us however to the folks of Augusta that Augusta went to the White Home and fed the president,” mentioned Sconyers. He’s fed many extra because the president.

“I’ll inform you once we got here again house, we had a surge of enterprise. Individuals have been excited that we had gone to the White Home, they usually wished to return out and discuss it. So it actually labored out good for us,” he mentioned.

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