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featured dining guide story Advertorial Feature By James Carlton | nWa DemoCrat-Gazette Penguin Ed's Throwback Anniversary 42 What's up! November 18 - 24, 2018 P enguin Ed's Bar-B-Que has come a long way in 25 years. From its humble roadside beginnings, smoking barbecue from a tent and a trailer at the crossroads of Crossover and Mission Blvd.; this now-more-than-barbecue business has grown to include three restaurants in Fayetteville, and its own successful sister catering company. On December 8th, in celebration of its 25th anniversary and how far they've come, they're taking us back to where it all began; all three Penguin Ed's locations will offer 25-year throwback pricing on the delicious offering that started it all: the original "Crossroads Bar-B-Q trailer" Sandwich Combos. The concept began with a limited menu and the intention of serving home-smoked barbecue to the working lunch crowd. The story behind the penguins is a little more bizarre. During what was possibly a heat-induced daze caused by the cramped and over-heated conditions of the original food-trailer, owner Ed Knight decided to make a paper-mache emperor penguin colony. Whether it was just delirium or all part of a master plan, we may never know; but Ed had had a long-standing admiration for the way penguins share the good and the bad together to survive; and so the paper penguins found their home, nestled amongst the patrons and standing guard on the trailer's roof — and a legacy was born. What was originally named "Crossroads Bar-B-Q" eventually took on its owner's new nickname, and became affectionately and officially known as Penguin Ed's Bar-B-Que. Paying Homage: BBQ Prices Roll Back 25 Years