Both terms can only relate to special meat prepared in special rub and brine with special taste.

Smath74 believes:

Quote :

"a barbecue is hamburgers and hot dogs with friends. "

WHAT SAY YOU?

3/9/2010 8:40:39 PM

3/9/2010 8:41:26 PM

BBQ is the poor man's Barbecue. That being said, BBQ is far superior.

3/9/2010 8:42:02 PM

Smath74 = yankee?

3/9/2010 8:42:16 PM

lived in NC my whole life.

3/9/2010 8:42:51 PM

:yawn: yea. AnotheR BBQ thread.

3/9/2010 8:46:15 PM

this isn't another eastern vs western nc bbq...this is a What is bbq vs what is not bbq thread.

3/9/2010 8:47:00 PM

Also, this song is appropriate for this thread...

3/9/2010 8:47:59 PM

^^Exactly... this would not apply in this thread:

[Edited on March 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM. Reason : ]

3/9/2010 8:48:33 PM

:sigh: ^ we've been through this a hundred times. But I'll play along this time.

BBQ is barbacue. You dumbass

BBQ is NOT grilling.

3/9/2010 8:49:45 PM

^you know....there is a very easy way for you to not have to read a thread about bbq

3/9/2010 8:51:44 PM

i mean the FIRST result in google for "bbq"
http://www.bbq.com/

3/9/2010 8:56:13 PM

just because google says it doesn't mean it's true

3/9/2010 8:57:21 PM

YOU QUESTION GOOGLE?

3/9/2010 9:02:03 PM

That just makes me want to throw out my weber grill.

3/9/2010 9:02:20 PM

blasphemy... you can make some good bbq on that!

3/9/2010 9:03:11 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue

its both

now shaddup

3/9/2010 9:05:51 PM

going to a barbecue is one thing and eating barbecue is something different

thats all i got

3/9/2010 9:07:12 PM

western style ketchup-based bbq is my favorite

3/9/2010 9:09:34 PM

I think when "a" precedes the word barbecue or BBQ it refers to the act of cooking out regardless of the food served, however barbecue itself does not include anything other than

Quote :

"special meat prepared in special rub and brine with special taste."

3/9/2010 9:27:33 PM

Homer: Look kids!  I just got my party invitiations back from the
       printers.
 Lisa: [Reading the invitation.]  "Come to Homer's BBBQ.  The extra B is
       for BYOBB."
 Bart: What's that extra B for?
Homer: It's a typo.

3/9/2010 9:29:38 PM

^irrelevant

3/9/2010 10:15:02 PM

you forgot:

Bar-B-Q

Bar-B-Que

3/9/2010 10:31:17 PM

Quote :

""a barbecue grilling out is hamburgers and hot dogs with friends. "

3/9/2010 10:32:56 PM

Quote :

"BBQ is barbacue. You dumbass BBQ is NOT grilling."

Just like the song says, barbecue is not a verb.

and I had some bbq for dinner, it was tastey

3/9/2010 10:40:40 PM

Any variation of barbecue always involves a pig getting roasted, at least around these parts.

3/9/2010 10:42:22 PM

I LOVE THE BBQ SONG OMG

3/9/2010 11:01:05 PM

noun + adjective + verb

3/9/2010 11:02:48 PM

yeah, so i was of course playing the devil's advocate about this whole bbq thing.


bbq is clearly whole hog pork chopped or pulled with a light vinegar pepper sauce with no hint of tomato.

3/9/2010 11:11:16 PM

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"breadcrumbs and macaroni and cheese have NO BUSINESS being part of the same dish. "

another smath belief

3/10/2010 12:16:18 AM

I'm going to a barbecue tomorrow. They better have good barbecue there

3/10/2010 12:42:52 AM

I've posted this before, but the only people I've heard say "we're barbecuing" and not be cooking a pig were from California. They were ignorant. I did not correct them in their ways because we had just smoked a huge ass blount. I also prefer saying barbacoa.

3/10/2010 12:46:31 AM

Silly flesh eaters. That said, I had a serious jonesing for some Hershey's [insert acceptable name for special meat prepared in special rub and brine with special taste here] today.

3/10/2010 12:58:44 AM

I'm reading a book by a half-Czech, half-Dutch Canadian who lived in California for a little while but has spent much of his life in the South Pacific, on far-flung isolated islands.

And even he mentions NC on two occasions:

1) Once in regard to our fanatical barbecue beliefs.
2) Once about the UNC/Duke rivalry.

Both of these were discussed to Chinese people in China.

Thought I'd share.

3/10/2010 1:10:48 AM

I like showing this picture to my students just to freak them out

3/10/2010 3:09:40 AM

^ I'm no PETA activist but that burns

3/10/2010 3:11:48 AM

^^that makes me hungry.

3/10/2010 7:29:42 AM

BBQ/barbecue IS NOT A VERB OR DESCRIPTION OF AN ACTIVITY.

Anyone who claims so should probably be arrested.

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3/10/2010 7:47:13 AM

i've heard of cookouts as barbecues/backyard barbecues

but i always refer to them as cookouts or grillfests

3/10/2010 7:53:45 AM

^^^ why? cook it with the head or not, it's still dead animal you're eating in the end

3/10/2010 7:54:22 AM

Quote :

"BBQ/barbecue IS NOT A VERB OR DESCRIPTION OF AN ACTIVITY"

agreed...A 'cook out' is the phrase that fits that bill.

It is only acceptable to use BBQ as a noun, as in eastern style BBQ, or an adjective, as in BBQ chicken (chicken with BBQ sauce on it).

3/10/2010 9:11:40 AM

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"^^that makes me hungry"

you are makin my mouth wet with that pic

3/10/2010 9:15:48 AM

aha! Newport Pig Cooking Contest April 9 and 10!

http://www.newportpigcooking.com/

There will be a lot of pigs slow cooking over night in the Newport Park...yes I will be there.

3/10/2010 11:49:57 AM

You are getting BBQ/barbecue twisted with grilling.

Grilling = hot and fast = burgers and steaks
BBQ = low and slow = ribs, brisket, and pork

There is room for both.

3/10/2010 11:52:48 AM

^who are you talking to?

3/10/2010 11:53:22 AM

No one.

I'm just talking.

3/10/2010 12:33:08 PM

^^^^ Man, wish I could go to that

Many moons ago the company my dad worked for used to do an annual pig pickin' contest. Employees could get half a pig provided by the company and a cooker. Best pig won a big prize. Then they got bought out by another company from Europe and the pig pickin's stopped

3/10/2010 6:47:49 PM