This is the Schweinshaxe from Sebastians Schnitzelhaus, a German restaurant In Wrightstown near McGuire Air Force Base. It’s a ham hock they roast overnight and it was fantastic. They only have it on Friday nights and you have to call by Thursday to order one. All of the other food was good too. We will definitely be returning.
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After being stationed at Fort Dix I swore I would never go back to Wrightstown, that picture is really something that’s making me reconsider my decision 
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That looks incredible!
I did wheeled-vehicle repair AIT at Dix in 1967. During that era, every town adjacent to a large base was a pit. Likely still are.
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I lived in Rantoul, Illinois, 1959-1964, next to Chanute AFB, and it was a (perhaps rare) counterexample. For that matter, Bangor, Maine, next to DowAFB, didn’t seem a pit either. Not the height of cosmopolitan culture perhaps, but not a pit.
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I see the identifier AFB. I suspect Air Force areas were “nicer” than Army areas. I was at Fort Dix (Wrightstown) and Fort Knox (Elizabethtown (E’town)) in the late 60’s and neither area was … worth exploring.
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ohhh my god swineshocks is like one of my favorite foods of all time!! that looks glorious
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My father did his basic at Fort Ord in the fall of 1966. I doubt that Monterey and Carmel were pits back then. 
OTOH, Petaluma, where he did his secondary training, was still the Egg Capital of California and was boring as heck, especially to a guy from Brooklyn.
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