M.E. Griffin created a special BBQ sauce that he made for his family's Fourth of July Picnic every year. Everybody loved his sauce and his brother suggested he bottle some and bring it to the store where he worked. He took in 12 bottles and his brother sold them before Griffin could even get home.

Griffin started the family-run business in 1935 with him and his family making sauce in their kitchen. He called his special sauce Mrs. Griffin's Barbecue Sauce "because a woman's name seemed to sell better than a man's." In 1949 he built the plant where the business is still located today. Business quickly expanded throughout Middle Georgia and sales increased. In 1965 M.E. Griffin retired and his daughter, Betty Barfield, and her husband Fred continued the business. Fred introduced the Chicken Sauce to their line of products. When Fred died, Betty continued to run the Company until it was sold to BAR-Jim, Inc. in 1998.

The Company, now owned by Jim Wilcox, continues to run "in the tradition set by Griffin 72 years ago." The various ingredients of the sauce are mixed -- not cooked -- in a 60 gallon vat. The process, which takes 4 days, includes 12 steps to combining the ingredients. The sauce is then mixed between 3 and 4 hours before being ready for bottling. Unique because it is mustard-based, this sauce comes in four flavors: Original, Chicken, Hickory Smoked, and Hot. The bottles come in several sizes: 12 ounces, 32 ounces, 64 ounces, and a gallon.

Mrs. Griffin's Barbecue Sauce is sold to wholesalers, grocery stores, barbecue restaurants, and some food service companies. Mrs. Griffin's continues to grow and is Middle Georgia's oldest and most popular local barbecue sauce. The sauce has been sold via the web for nearly a decade.