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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/43/sACP1.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Sir John Bullfrog implores in a manner most insistent that voters vote for he as Lord Mayor at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue. Candidates and BBQ lovers converged on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/43/SJY98.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Sir John Bullfrog implores in a manner most insistent that voters vote for he as Lord Mayor at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue. Candidates and BBQ lovers converged on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/1lFv49.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Hands are shook in the gauntlet as candidates and BBQ lovers converge on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/mJbKW.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Sir John Bullfrog (in feathered hat) implores in a manner most insistent that voters vote for he as Lord Mayor at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue. Candidates and BBQ lovers converged on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/wl3U2.St.138.jpeg|49010/25/2012 - Candidates and voters get to know each other at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/Br0te.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Candidates and voters get to know each other at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/1dQMdb.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Debbie Smith, small business owner and Republican, talks with candidates at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. "I want to really know what I am doing this time, I want to educate myself" she said. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/7qtDs.St.138.jpeg|45110/25/2012 - Candidate Robert Pittenger meets voters at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/1pP3Pb.St.138.jpeg|42810/25/2012 - Candidate Jennifer Roberts meets voters at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/1sAHMF.St.138.jpeg|43610/25/2012 - BBQ lovers converge on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. There is some political posturing, but mostly it is the steady drumbeat of molars that is the driving force at Mallard Creek. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/10Lk7k.St.138.jpeg|40410/25/2012 - C. D. Spangler and his wife Meredith dig into the bar-b-cue at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. It was 40 years ago that Spangler himself pitched his candidacy for school board here. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/42/A3yE8.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - BBQ lovers converge on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/48/1hWtNx.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - The desert of choice is Nutty Buddies, and Jaylen Oehler enjoys one at the Mallard Creek Bar-b-cue. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/48/aWQud.St.138.jpeg|42910/25/2012 - Cale Oehler (13) stirs bar-b-cue in the prep area of the Mallard Creek event. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/1iCDxC.St.138.jpeg|47610/25/2012 - BBQ lovers descend on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/zagfh.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Candidates and BBQ lovers converge on the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/VDBtp.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - April Carte, 12, keeps the orders coming at the Mallard Creek bar-b-cue drive through on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/vOjLP.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Linda Kiser (left) takes a picture of Meredith Spittle (4, left) and Katelyn Kiser (5, right) on the lap of George Deaton, age 103 at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. Deaton came to the event in 1942, and has been here every year since. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/o2SH0.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - April Carte (left) and Sarah DeArmon (right) decorate sandwich bags at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/HCMx1.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Will Oehler, 5, falls victim to his video game while helping in the kitchen at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/GoxHm.St.138.jpeg|38810/25/2012 - Drew Dowling (left) and David Helms (right) scoop up heaps of bar-b-cue at the 83rd annual Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/16n5ai.St.138.jpeg|29010/25/2012 - Cars line up all day, in four lines, to get bar-b-cue at Mallard Creek. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/16/47/1bqyq3.St.138.jpeg|41310/25/2012 - Cale Oehler, 13, rests after stirring bar-b-cue at the Mallard Creek Bar-B-Cue on Thursday. JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/41/1fxEX4.St.138.jpeg|423People jam the trestle tables by the thousands. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/31/Wh41q.St.138.jpeg|525The $9 barbecue plate is always the same: Chopped pork with two kinds of sauces (hot and sweet), coleslaw, applesauce and a bowl of Brunswick stew. Loaves of Merita bread are on the tables, and the only drink provided is water or coffee. For more, you have to go buy a soda. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/31/kjdWE.St.138.jpeg|466The crowd at the Mallard Creek Barbecue. (Jeff Willhelm - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/31/14AEAH.St.138.jpeg|525It takes hundreds of church volunteers to make the whole thing work. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/12/1n6w5D.St.138.jpeg|467Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church's annual barbecue isn't really a political event. It's an old-fashioned fundraiser for the church. But politicians always flock to it, and a presidential election year brought out crowds who filled the tables. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/12/17vYqc.St.138.jpeg|467Women are hired to spend the day stirring big pots of Brunswick stew. Based on rice, ground beef, tomatoes and corn, it has to be stirred so it doesn't stick. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/12/1cEtR6.St.138.jpeg|466The crowd at the Mallard Creek Barbecue. (Jeff Willhelm - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/12/Pl8Kk.St.138.jpeg|466The crowd at the Mallard Creek Barbecue. (Jeff Willhelm - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/12/WhY4b.St.138.jpeg|466The crowd at the Mallard Creek Barbecue. (Jeff Willhelm - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/25/15/31/w2uMz.St.138.jpeg|525They'll sell more than 14,000 pounds of barbecue and 2,700 gallons of stew by the end of the day. Photo by Kathleen Purvis. See her blog, I'll Bite, at http://obsbite.blogspot.com.
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