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Fried chicken is among the region's best-known exports, though pork is also an integral part of the cuisine, with Virginia ham being one renown form.

Southern Maryland is known for its Stuffed ham.

A traditional holiday get-together featuring whole hog barbecue is known in Virginia and the Carolinas as a " pig pickin '".

Green beans are often flavored with bacon and salt pork, biscuits served with ham often accompany breakfast, and ham with red-eye gravy or country gravy is a common dinner dish.