BBQ Rules

[Esav Benyamin]

When you argue about what a word means you should say where you're from.

I'm from western Massachusetts and here "grilling" is something the police do to suspects.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/barbecue

bar·be·cue

noun, verb, -cued, -cu·ing.
–noun 1. pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth, esp. when basted in a barbecue sauce.
2. a framework, as a grill or a spit, or a fireplace for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire.
3. a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole.
4. a meal, usually in the open air and often as a political or social gathering, at which meats are roasted over an open hearth or pit.
–verb (used with object) 5. to broil or roast whole or in large pieces over an open fire, on a spit or grill, often seasoning with vinegar, spices, salt, and pepper.
6. to cook (sliced or diced meat or fish) in a highly seasoned sauce.
–verb (used without object) 7. to cook by barbecuing or to entertain at a barbecue: If the weather's nice, we'll barbecue in the backyard.
Also, barbeque, bar-b-que.

[Origin: 1655–65; < Sp barbacoa < Arawak (perh. Taino) barbacoa a raised frame of sticks]

 

[2TONYB]

I thought it was just texans that used the term "BBQ" for all forms of outdoor cooking.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Evidently, everyone uses BBQ for their favorite local outdoor grill, appropriately enough, since the original word refered to the rack the meat was cooked on, not the style of preparation or type of meat.

 

[WA Martin]

I learned this song from some of the Australian Pistol Team some years back...

When the summer sun is shining on Australia's happy land
Round countless fires, in strange attire in many solemn bands
of glum Australians watching as the lunch goes up in flames
By the smoke and the smell you can plainly tell, that it's barby time again

When the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes
When the snacks all taste like fried toothpaste and your mouth is full of flies
It's a national institution, it's Australian through and through
So come on mate and grab your plate, let's have a barbeque!

The Scots eat lots of haggis, the French eat snails and frogs
The Greeks throw kakis on their mousakis, and the Chinese love hot dogs
The Welshmen love to have a leek, the Irish like thier stew
But you just can't beat that half-cooked meat at an Aussie barbeque

When the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes
When the snacks all taste like fried toothpaste and your mouth is full of flies
It's a national institution, it's Australian through and through
So come on mate and grab your plate, let's have a barbeque

There's flies stuck to the margarine, the bread has gone rock hard
The kids are fighting and the mossies are biting, who forgot the Aeroguard?
There's bull ants in the eskie, and the beer is running out
And what you saw in Mom's cole slaw, you just don't think about

When the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes
When the snacks all taste like fried toothpaste and your mouth is full of flies
It's a national institution, it's Australian through and through
So come on mate and grab your plate, let's have a barbeque

And when the barby's over and your homeward way you wend
With a queezy tummy on the family dummy, many lonely hours you'll spend
You might find yourself reflecting, like many often do
Come rain or shine that's the bloody last time that you'll have a barbeque!

When the steaks are burning fiercely, when the smoke gets in your eyes
When the snacks all taste like fried toothpaste and your mouth is full of flies
It's a national institution, it's Australian through and through
So come on mate and grab your plate, let's have a barbeque

"Eric Bogle"

I'd love to know the "tune" that is supposed to be sung to. I don't know why but "Lizzie Borden" as sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio (IIRC) came to mind and the words seem to fit it. Don't know the name of the "tune" though.

 

[jim preston]

Are you guys telling me that the ribs I spend all day cooking slowly on the gas grill are not BBQ?

Barbeque, to really be called barbeque, needs some smoke.
I will say they are probably finger-lickin good.

 

[Ebbtide]

Barbeque, to really be called barbeque, needs some smoke.
I will say they are probably finger-lickin good.

Around here that would be called "smoking"


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