Old Hickory Regular Barbecue Sauce - Pint

Even the bottle was the same as I remember!

I did not like it

We used it when I was a child.It was great and still is.

Love the sauce! Great price and great product! Always ships very quickly!

Only sauce my family will use for Mother's bbq cheeseburgers

Been using this sauce over 50 years except for when it wasn't produced for a short period.

Old Hickory is our favorite bbq sauce. You cannot find a better flavored sauce.

When I was a small child back in WWII I started eating Old Hickory barbecue at the Whit Parker's barbecue stand on Highway 7 near El Dorado, and since then I've tasted a lot of barbecue sauces. None have ever been as good as Old Hickory. It's the best there is because it's not loaded with cloying sweeteners. It's what barbecue sauce should be, sharp and savory. Most barbecue sauces available today are nothing but an overly sugared ketchup with a couple of extra spices added. Old Hickory barbecue sauce has a unique, delightful flavor not matched by any other. It amazes me that it is now being produced in my hometown of Smackover. I'm so happy it's available again.

First of all, it appears that the quart size bottles are no longer for sale here. This is a shame, as the pint is far too expensive. $5.99 for a pint and the twice-the-size quart bottle was $6.78.

Secondly, both my older brothers say this is not the same recipe as the original Old Hickory. They said it doesn't look or taste like it. I still enjoy this sauce, especially on chicken, but will not pay the current price for such a small amount. Walmart sells it for half this price. I don't see why the manufacturer's direct price is higher than a retail outlet.


Answer from Old Hickory:

Mr. Hogan. We appreciate the 4 Star Review! We wanted to address a couple of your concerns.

First, we will assure you that this is the same original barbecue sauce that was created back in the 1940s from long ago. The recipe has not changed. The label has changed slightly, but not the sauce recipe. Thousands across South Arkansas and the country would agree with us!

Secondly, we do not offer our quart decanter on the online shopping platform anymore because we had an increased number of breakage in bottles over our pint size decanter. Our pint sized bottle is much easier on us and our customers for shipping. Our quart size is sold locally in grocery stores in retail.

Third, our product is not for sale on the Walmart website or in Walmart stores as of right now. We were at one time on the Walmart website, but had continual issues with their on boarding and getting started. The issue was that we would submit the information for our products in their portal system, but when it showed on their website it would say mistakenly that we were out of stock. I will reiterate Walmart currently does not sell our products. We have never sold a single bottle of sauce to Walmart.

Finally, the pricing structure you see on our online website was changed at the beginning of this year in 2020. We assure you it was in the benefit of our customers who cannot find our sauces at their local stores. We now offer free shipping, whereas before we charged for shipping. What we found is that if a customer placed an order at regular retail price, their shipping was 3 times the price they were paying for the sauce. In addition, they had to buy a large amount of product to make shipping more feasible. Yes the individual price per bottle has increased slightly, but we assure you, our customers are benefiting from this pricing and shipping change, not Old Hickory.

Our customers are always our first concern and we are not in the business of price gouging.