Found in a team-by-team rundown of the NFL draft by ESPN columnist Gregg Easterbrook:
Carolina: “A new sophistication is sweeping across the city,” the New York Times pronounced in March of Charleston. Hey Claude, did you just feel something sweep across the city? The newspaper’s evidence of sweeping Carolina change: a recently opened suspension bridge and the Carolinas’ inaugural Food and Wine Festival, which attracted 5,000. “Food experts came from across the South to size up the situation, and many were impressed,” the newspaper reported. “Food experts” converge! The Times especially praised an expensive Charleston restaurant for its “classic low-country combination of pork and shellfish in the form of intensely piggy guanciale, made from hog jowls.” Intensely piggy?
Now Easterbrook is a renowned smartie pants, so this may just be a chain-puller for the ages. In the same article both the Jets and the Giants come from “New Jersey” which is not only true, but funny. The CH thing though, that’s both obscure and painfully not funny to Charlotte’s rah-rah bunch.
