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

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha HA!

I love this post.

Barbeque is indeed serious fucking business!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

:D I am glad we agree!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

It's true! Hey, I like grilled burgers and smoked chicken breasts just fine but that's not a barbeque.

inviting someone over for barbeque and serving grilled wieners is sort of an insult, in my opinion. But then, I don't like grilled wieners. They dry out on a pit and well, just ... no. Yuck!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I actually only eat my hot dogs grilled, and I like them a little charred, so maybe I'm weird! But I agree about other grilled things being very good...but not barbeque!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeeeee! And I like mine boiled in water so that they swell up.

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Heee! This sounds so dirty. Swollen wieners.

Sorry. Mind's in the gutter! Carry on.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I feel like Allison Janney's character from 10 Things I Hate About You would use that in her romance novel.

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Tumescent! The hot dogs are tumescent!

LMAO!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

omg, you just made me choke on my coke.