Why the Wonder Bread with barbecue plates?

I grew up with Wonder Bread but it was called Melita in North Carolina. We ate it with pimento cheese. I am not a liar. I hate Velveeta and I hate Melita and Wonder Bread. We used Melita bread to feed ducks and pigeons. I will never eat a grilled Velvetta sandwich on Wonder Bread.

When Chris Schlesinger (native of southern Virginia) open Jake and Earls BBQ and the East Coast Grill decades ago, he was famously quoted as saying he needed a cheap white doughy roll to go with his Eastern NC vinegar style BBQ. He made great Eastern NC BBQ, and it did soak up the sauce. But it as a roll, not just plain doughy bland white bread.

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