random pet peeve

[lirazel]

It really, really irks me when people use the word barbeque when there is no barbeque involved. Like, they say that, and what they really mean is that someone is grilling hamburgers and hot dogs or whatever? And hey! I love hamburgers and hot dogs! Go ahead with your grilling! I am a fan! BUT NOT AS BIG OF A FAN AS I AM OF BARBEQUE, SO STOP IT WITH YOUR FALSE ADVERTISING. YOU GET ME ALL EXCITED ABOUT THIS GATHERING TO CONSUME BARBEQUE AND THEN THERE IS NO BARBEQUE. BARBEQUE IS SERIOUS, SERIOUS BUSINESS SO DO NOT TAKE IT LIGHTLY.

If you're grilling and eating outside and such and there's no actual barbeque involved, it's a cook-out. The end.

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Now I really want some barbeque.

Comments

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! YES. My parents--who were raised in the Midwest--do this. Or at least they used to. I think they were eventually indoctrinated into the very serious distinction between grilling and barbeque.

But I remember as a kid being weirded out that everyone who I wasn't related to called it "grilling"--and that it was most definitely NOT barbeque in their books.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

It's totally a regional thing, I realize. And you will get corrected if you're down here and say it wrong.

Who was it the other day who told me that he barbequed a turkey, and I got all excited? I asked him if there was a pit involved, and he was like, "Oh, I meant I grilled it." DISAPPOINTMENT. I've never had homemade turkey barbeque, so I was anxious to hear how it was. The kind I get from our local joints is pretty good, though obviously not as good as pulled pork because nothing is.

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

I totally need to do a barbeque tour of the South. Because, here, we're all about the beef. Like, the greatest thing you can give me in life is beef ribs--because they're SO hard to find. Almost no one makes them--only the really hole-in-the-wall authentic places do. But every other form of beef barbeque is ubiquitous. Brisket, sausage, chopped beef. But pork is almost like an exotic form of barbeque for us--it's like, ooh. Look at this novelty item--pork! I need to be more familiar with the pulled-pork universe, I think.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, you do! And I will gladly accompany you! I like beef, but I'm all about the pork. I'm really interested in trying beef ribs now. I do love ribs, so that sounds really good.

Of course, y'all are a cattle state, so it makes sense that beef would be at the center of your diet. I read that the reason that Southerners eat so much pork is because of the poverty issue--pork is substantially less expensive than beef, so we ate tons of it, and even in the places that are now doing okay economically (which is still a limited number of places) just kind of stuck with it.

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

There's some quite decent beef ribs at Ruby's Barbeque in Austin, on 29th and Guadalupe.

You might know that already :)

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

I haven't had their ribs! I actually haven't been to Ruby's in a really long time--since I was in school, I think. But I remember they have really good side items--and that if you go there, you're gonna smell like a smokehouse for the rest of the day... which could be good.

Artz Ribhouse on South Lamar is the place that I usually go for beef ribs--but I think Sam's on E. 7th might have them too. And outside of Pflugerville, the Cele Store def. has them. Theirs are the best in the universe!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

We've never barbequed a turkey but last year, we roasted one in our pit just like you'd roast on in the oven. We used a combination of aged oak, pecan and mesquite. No sauce involved but oh my God, it was awesome, I kid you not.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That sounds amazing. I am making myself so hungry in this post!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I know, me too. And I don't have time for BBQ today.