What does BBQ mean to you?

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ellabelle said:
Here in Australia BBQ refers to the way I’ts cooked (ie; on a barbeque!) You can barbeque anything really but most people barbeque steak, sausages, chicken or seafood it just has to be grillled/flame grilled on a barbeque. Also this is pretty much outdoors only! Grilled inside in an oven or grill not a barbeque doesnt count and wouldnt be called BBQ. Would then be served with any salads, coleslaw, poltato salad etc.

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Same as in Japan. You see a mixture of beef, chicken, pork, sausages, lots of fish and seafood. Vegetable include pumpkin, onions, sweet potatoes Often yakisoba is cooked last.
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Ridgerunner said:
Southern Missouri Ozarks meaning:

Usually a whole hog or half or a side of beef, slow cooked over coals and smoked with hickory wood. For a small group, a pork butt will do just fine. Fall-apart tender, then, crackling crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside. Can be sliced, but pulled is good, maybe better. Endlessly slathered with sauce that can have different things in it, including honey, pepper, tomato paste, touch of garlic. Might have vinegar, might not, but better if it does. Really ought to have bourbon in it, and usually does. Has a bite to it, but is sweet at the same time. Everybody pretty much has his own recipe for sauce and won’t share it, or will share it but lies about the most important thing. If you don’t make your own, “Silver Dollar City” BBQ sauce from Branson will certainly do, but you need to add the bourbon.

Best eaten outside in warm weather, especially right before dusk. Corn on the cob and beer are not required, but are nearly so. Same with homemade cole slaw. (NEVER the store kind) Watermelon afterward, kept cold in the creek. Watch the kids catch fireflies at dusk and walk along the creek as the mist from the cool evening air flowing off the hilltops rolls downstream over the water. Watch the minnows in the dark pools flashing in the moonlight. Somebody starts singing and those who can, make harmony to it. Somebody brought a mandolin, it turns out, and is persuaded to go get it out of the car. Somebody brought a guitar. Somebody brought a banjo.

Now, THAT’s barbecue!
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EXACTLY right!
 
Here in California people don’t really distinguish between grilling and BBQing when BBQ is used as a verb. The purists would say to BBQ requires to use wood and/or charcoal.

But if BBQ is used as a noun, (e.g. “We’re going to get BBQ tonight,”) then that is understood to be something cooked/smoked over wood or charcoal (preferably hickory, oak, or mesquite) and probably with some kind of sauce. The kind of meat doesn’t really matter but the local favorite is probably tri-tip. Santa Maria style BBQ is California’s claim to BBQ fame.

We might also mean something slow-cooked with BBQ sauce like pulled pork.
 
What we call BBQ in Eastern Canada is grillin’ to many. But ifn’ my grillin’ involves BBQ sauce does it become BBQ??:confused:

At any rate my BBQ could be ribs (dry rub, 3 hours of indirect heat, smoke if I’ve remembered to pick up cherry or mesquite wood chips, sauce near the end of the cooking time); chicken, steak, burgers or pork chops (or any venison I might be lucky to enough to get my hands on); mackerel; salmon; char. It could also include Portabello mushrooms, eggplant, sweet red peppers, thick onion slices and zucchini.
 
*To me, when I hear the word bbq, I think of carcinogens. lol! I know, I’m weird…but, really, eating bbq’d food using charcoals is not healthy. 😛

Seriously, though–it means hamburgers, steak, shrimp on the barbie, and hot dogs. Healthy food all the way, woohoo! 👍:D*
 
This thread should have a warning attached–“Warning–May Cause Drooling and Stomach Rumbling!”

or, “Do Not Read Before Mealtime–May Induce Intense Cravings!”
 
Well, around here BBQ seems to refer to “grilling”. And, here in Vermont, it mostly seems to be chicken. All the local fire departments have BBQ chicken fundraisers. (Although, at my house, we mostly throw veggies, potatoes, beans, and hotdogs on the grill.)

Oddly enough, when I lived back in RI, I discovered that BBQ could also refer to a meal of seafood, clam cakes, and “chowda”. (I have no idea if any of these items were grilled or not; I assume that they must have been.) My friends were baffled when I talked about BBQ steak, and I was baffled when they talked about the clam cakes, lol. 😛
 
Cat said:
Now that Lent is almost over, this topic might be fun.

**In your part of the world, what is BBQ? **

In our section of the U.S., (Northern Illinois), BBQ generally refers to a tomato-based sauce with meat. Often when people say “BBQ,” they mean a “sloppy joe”, which is ground beef and some kind of tomato sauce.

The sauce often has a slightly-sweet flavor. Midwesterners like me really like “honey BBQ” or “brown sugar BBQ.”

(Chili in Northern Illinois is often the same way–somewhat sweet. I read this in Midwestern Magazine several years back, in case you wonder about my source of information for this statement.)

When my husband and I lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, we discovered that our Midwest BBQ wasn’t BBQ to them–they called our stuff “meat with sauce.” To THEM, BBQ was shredded pork, marinated with vinegar and red pepper. You either love it or hate it. (I hated it.)

I’ve heard other people say that in their locale, BBQ merely refers to grilling meat, often in a pit. To some people, BBQ refers to some kind of “smoke,” like hickory or mesquite.

So how about YOU? What does BBQ mean to you? Feel free to share any good recipes, and we’ll all look forward to trying them after Lent!

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It means low ‘n’ slow, no matter how you prep or finish. When you’re talking pig, it’s spare ribs and I like a dry rub and a mop now and then of vinegar, finished with a glaze during the last half-hour or so.

As for chicken, gotta have the bird sitting on a beer can. It only takes about an hour and a half and will be the best bird you ever tasted.

All of which reminds me, it’s time to pull out the rig! 😃
 
Before I got married, BBQ meant cookout to me (noun: Lets have a BBQ, verb: I am going to BBQ this chicken and these hot dogs, adjective: BBQ chicken, barbecued hot dogs, etc)
After I got married, BBQ became a plate of pulled pork with a vinegar based sauce, possibly in a bun with slaw, and don’t forget the banana pudding for dessert (noun: Let’s go get some BBQ.) Can you tell where dh is from?
 
I’m from Texas so BBQ means lo and slow. Usually takes 6-12 hours minumun to cook the meat.

A word of warning for the other Texans here, if you are in other states and see a sign that says Texas BBQ. Run away. Don’t even attempt to taste the BBQ. It is not Texas BBQ.
 
BBQ means only one thing - meat cooked at a low temperature for a long period of time. Meat cooked quickly at a high temperature is grilling (like hamburgers).

BBQ does not have to a sauce, but is sure is tasty. 🙂

I cook my ribs at least three hours. 😛

 
Ridgerunner said:
Southern Missouri Ozarks meaning:

Usually a whole hog or half or a side of beef, slow cooked over coals and smoked with hickory wood. For a small group, a pork butt will do just fine. Fall-apart tender, then, crackling crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside. Can be sliced, but pulled is good, maybe better. Endlessly slathered with sauce that can have different things in it, including honey, pepper, tomato paste, touch of garlic. Might have vinegar, might not, but better if it does. Really ought to have bourbon in it, and usually does. Has a bite to it, but is sweet at the same time. Everybody pretty much has his own recipe for sauce and won’t share it, or will share it but lies about the most important thing. If you don’t make your own, “Silver Dollar City” BBQ sauce from Branson will certainly do, but you need to add the bourbon.

Best eaten outside in warm weather, especially right before dusk. Corn on the cob and beer are not required, but are nearly so. Same with homemade cole slaw. (NEVER the store kind) Watermelon afterward, kept cold in the creek. Watch the kids catch fireflies at dusk and walk along the creek as the mist from the cool evening air flowing off the hilltops rolls downstream over the water. Watch the minnows in the dark pools flashing in the moonlight. Somebody starts singing and those who can, make harmony to it. Somebody brought a mandolin, it turns out, and is persuaded to go get it out of the car. Somebody brought a guitar. Somebody brought a banjo.

Now, THAT’s barbecue!
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Oh to be back in southeast Missouri again. The Knights of Columbus picnic Labor Day weekend in the '50s and '60s. If the wind was right you could smell the hickory smoke over almost half the town–from the Mississippi west.
 
Here in St. Louis, bbq means something grilled but with sauce. You bbq ribs, chicken etc if you put sauce (lots of it usually) on the meat before serving. You grill a beef steak or hamburgers.

One of the best bbq meats is a pork steak - it’s a sliced pork butt or shoulder, grilled over hot coals and then slathered in sauce at the end. Hard to find outside of St. Louis but oh so yummy. We actually had them for dinner last night.

There’s not much in the way of bbq styles that I don’t like!

Kris
 
cheese_sdc said:
BBQ means only one thing - meat cooked at a low temperature for a long period of time. Meat cooked quickly at a high temperature is grilling (like hamburgers).

BBQ does not have to a sauce, but is sure is tasty. 🙂

I cook my ribs at least three hours. 😛

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What time is dindin? I’ll bring the beans!

adapted from a recipe I saw on Triple-D: a couple tall cans of baked beans, chopped onion, chopped green pepper, BBQ seasoning, and any leftover pig from a previous Q. Lacking that, you can add bacon. Bake in a medium oven for 45 minutes.
 
In our family, having a BBQ means friends, family, and good times in the back yard. Usually it’s chicken, steak, pork chops, or burgers (hot dogs for the kids) cooked on the grill, along with margaritas and beer for the adults 😃 Kids running around all over the place, and if it’s hot weather, the pool is open, and there is a lot of screaming and splashing going on. In our house, BBQ refers more to the social event than to the food, although having food cooked on the grill is definitely required.🙂
 
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