Comments on: Maurice’s Racist Barbeque

By: Southerner

Southerner — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:36:00 +0000

You say “When first arriving at Maurice’s, you may notice that they are quite fond of the Confederate battle flag.” I can’t make it out entirely, but my guess is that is the third flag down on the highest flag pole? So well beneath the US Flag and what is presumably the flag of South Carolina. Big deal.

As for the other flags, I don’t suppose you’d care to comment on the fact that the majority of the flags shown represent states which seceded from the Union to form the CSA.

I see North Carolina, Missouri, South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, one of the former flags of Georgia (1956 - 2001), and Tennessee. Probably just coincidence.

By: Allstarzina

Allstarzina — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:26:00 +0000

Walmart only buys from China any way, the people that shop at Walmart dont have any historical values. They would be thrilled to be working for the chinese and disregard their past history of domestic development. As I have read the blacks were just as happy to come here as any one else . It wasnt as peachy as you may think for any one. But its our history…..

By: Really From CT

Really From CT — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:36:00 +0000

So, you’re not really from CT. Connecticut residents know better than to fall for this rubbish.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:37:00 +0000

Maurice’s is a museum, though perhaps not in the way Maurice the man would like it to be viewed. I found the place when I traveled through Columbia because someone had told me “you HAVE to check this place out.” Sure enough, it’s like looking at an artifact of the Old South. Sure, there are museums of civil rights, southern history, etc., but there aren’t a lot of places just off the highway where a traveler can gawk in disbelief at a living, breathing remnant of old-time segregationist propaganda. You needn’t time-travel back to the ’60s to see it. In this way, I found the place worth visiting for lunch.

By: Shawn Bratton

Shawn Bratton — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:50:39 +0000

Wow I always wondered why some of the piggly wigglys sold this guys Bar-B-Que sauce out of the back warehouse instead of the store shelf to customers who knew it was there. I never knew the real story I was told when I arrived to Columbia don’t even bother walking in this joint because despite the good customer service upfront there was a special sauce for people like me in the back (This comment was from one of my white cousins)…hell I feel this way about all resturants

By: Matt Taylor

Matt Taylor — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:35:12 +0000

I think all of you people commenting about “southern pride” and flying the confederate flag are missing the point. Maurice chooses to display a large table full of pamphlets with themes such as, “How slavery was the best thing that ever happened to black people” and “How many slaves pined for the good old days when they were enslaved and ‘massa’ took care of them”.

This crap goes beyond “southern pride”. Stop trying to defend a blantant racist.

Me and my coworker stopped at one and were not bothered at all by the confederate flag on the outside, it was all of the pro-slavery literature and the pictures of all the ‘happy slaves’ working in the fields that offended us.

But aside from all of that, if I wanted mustard on my bbq I could apply that myself. It wasn’t very good and even if the place itself wasn’t so offensive I would not go there again.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:44:20 +0000

Love the comments everyone, keep em up!

I’ve been back to Maurice’s a few times since this post, the BBQ is really not worth a damn. Fries are good enough though!

Thanks

By: Chris from CT

Chris from CT — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:37:44 +0000

I was born in Connecticut…I moved to the south when I was about 9. I am 26 now. The story that we have been indoctrinated with in school regarding the Civil War is not always accurate to what REALLY happened. All southerners are not racist despite popular yankee/liberal opinion. The confederate flag represents heritage, not hate. Read a book titled “The Real Lincoln”. Just because you were taught it in school doesn’t make it true. We, in this country, have been indoctrinated to beleive that some of the “heros” of the Civil war stopped slavery and made everything right. While slavery needed to end, Lincoln wasn’t the real “hero” we make him out to be. NOBODY challenges it though because we are all being indoctrinated by authors of textbooks. Read, Think, Use your Head. And don’t beleive everything the Government tells you.

Also, If you are going to do a review of a BBQ restaurant in SC stick to the review on the food. If you don’t like it here, then don’t come here!

By: A Culinary Tour of Charleston « Small Town Foodie

A Culinary Tour of Charleston « Small Town Foodie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:46:52 +0000

[...] have walked out the door. I won’t go on and on about this, but I do like this blogger’s perspective on Maurice’s BBQ. I think “cultural regression” is an appropriate term [...]

By: Southern Sweetheart

Southern Sweetheart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Everytime we go to South Carolina I love it when my family stops by Marice’s to eat. The food is great and the service is friendly. I see the Confederate atmosphere as just a southern bonus. Personally, I think that Mr. Marice shows alot of “guts” by flying the Confederate Flag and helping to preserve our southern history. I believe that the Confederate Flag stands for independant freedom from the federal government. It is also flown in respect for our forfathers that fought during the War Between the States. That is why I keep one flying in my yard too. Long Live Dixie.
~ DEO VINDICE~

ps: I’m from GA too.