Re: Griill or BBQ

Dave Smith" <"adavid,smith wrote:
Dave Bugg wrote:

jmcquown wrote:

But many non-US people call grilling "BBQ". Barbequeing is
certainly a term for grilling. If I invited you to a barbeque it
would mean we're going to cook food on the grill. The short term,
BBQ, generally refers to a very specific thing, which Dave Bugg
explained quite well. When I think of BBQ I think of pork shoulder
or beef brisket or many slabs of ribs (pork or beef, doesn't
matter).

Jill, I agree that the terms have become interchangeable. Whatever
the spelling, folks, who are ignorant of the fact that the word
'barbecue' is almost as old as the original english colonies in
America, refers to a specific style of cooking, have bastardized the
word to refer to anything cooked outdoors.

I confess to being one of those who has bastardized it to refer to
anything cooked outdoors. :-) One of my nieces has a boyfriend from
South Carolina and, according to him, BBQ is not just a particular
style of outdoor cooking, but a particular dish.

<laughing> It's a regional thing and I have heard that refrain everywhere
I've gone. In the Carolinas, it's pork. And even more than this, regional
prejudice in the carolinas will further specify whether the 'proper' bbq for
pork is whole-hog, half-hog, shoulder, butts, chopped, pulled, picked, with
sauce, no sauce, vinegar-based sauce with tomato or with no tomato, with
mustard or without mustard, and on and on.

Then there's the region around Texas where beef (brisket primarily) is the
only meat for 'proper' bbq. Then you have the region around Kentucky which
is heavy into mutton.

But when push comes to shove, if you look at each region's method of Q'ing
their preferred meat, it has the same common denominator: low and slow with
wood fire heating the cooking chamber indirectly.
--
Dave
www.davebbq.com


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