Front of Woods Smoked Meats off of Business 54 in Bowling Green Photo from Woods Smoke Meats Facebook page For Missouri, Schreiber named Woods Hickory Smoked Bacon as the best. But for many Bowling Green and Pike County residents, that name is synonymous with great smoked meats. Woods Smoked Meats is nothing new for locals. According to its website, G.E. Woods started the business when he opened a grocery store in 1947 with a Meat Department consisting of a wooden cutting block, a small grinder, meat cleaver, hand slicer, and some knives. 73 years later, his son Edward Woods grew the business into an international affair.