Monday, February 19, 2007
Multiple Meanings.
Barbecue (also barbeque, abbreviated BBQ or Bar-B-Que or diminuted chiefly in Australia to barbie) is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a vinegar or tomato-based sauce to the meat. The term as a noun can refer to foods cooked by this method, to the cooker itself, or to a party that includes such food. The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner. ***
When I first moved down here and someone mentioned having barbeque for dinner I was fully expecting to end up in someone's back yard eating hamburgers and hot dogs and was more than suprised to learn what they were actually talking about. I quickly learned that barbecue is one of the greatest things about the south. Mom and Dad could not leave the south without eating a bbq sandwich. To them, barbecue is either what you cook hamburgers and hot dogs on, or an event when people come over and eat hamburgers and hot dogs in your backyard. They both loved their eastern-style barbecue sandwiches and have successfully learned the multiple meanings of the word that means so much. Feel free to peruse Wikipedia for a more advanced description of the topic. But take my advice, you don't really know barbecue until you've had a southern pulled pork sandwich. Or call Mom and Dad, they'll tell ya!
# posted by Rachelle @ 4:55 PM 
