The scene: A porcine logo adorning a barbecue restaurant is usually a good sign, and over the years I’ve seen cartoon pigs, pigs in top hats with bejeweled canes (my favorite), and pigs holding a ham (a little creepy), but never before have I seen a pig with a cast on one of its legs. The logo is a stand-in for restaurant owner and pitmaster Carey Bringle, a Nashville native who grew up around Western Tennessee’s rich barbecue culture and fondly recalls his grandfather cooking whole hogs for family gatherings. Bringle was mentored in competition barbecue by his uncle, who competed in the very first Memphis in May World Championship in 1976, now one of the four “majors” of competitive smoking, akin to golf’s Masters.
Hooked, Bringle has competed in the “Super Bowl of Swine” for more than 25 years, taking second place honors three times with his former team, Hog Wild. The pig represents barbecue, and the cast represents Bringle, who lost his right leg to osteogenic sarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer, at age 17.
Source : usatoday
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