Rosie_0801 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Typically, homemade potato salad is also inextricably linked to barbecue in this area. I don't know why. It just is. Oh yes. If it is a family bbq, there has to be an argument over whose potato salad is best. I don't think we get beef hotdogs here. Beef is sausage and not orange on the outside. A hot dog is orange on the outside and allegedly made of pork. Sloppy Joes? Just give me a burger instead. What? I thought Sloppy Joe was a kind of burger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 In Oregon, it's meat (like tri-tip or hamburgers or sausages or marinated chicken), fish or vegetables cooked on an outdoor grill on your back patio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 What? I thought Sloppy Joe was a kind of burger! It's ground up burger (in chunks), fried on a stovetop, and smothered in a tomato based sauce (often from a can), then served on a roll. I'd just as soon have the burger as a burger - grilled - and with fixings I can add. Sloppy Joes are Sloppy Joes. They aren't BBQ IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Someone call my name? Ahem, um, let's see, in our house, we use these terms interchangeably: Ground hamburger with sauce = sloppy joes or barbecue Grilled meat = grilling or barbecue Backyard party = cookout or barbecue Pulled pork/beef/chicken = pulled or barbecue pork/beef/chicken Barbecue is just a nice word and should be used to describe as many things as possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It's ground up burger (in chunks), fried on a stovetop, and smothered in a tomato based sauce (often from a can), then served on a roll. I'd just as soon have the burger as a burger - grilled - and with fixings I can add. Sloppy Joes are Sloppy Joes. They aren't BBQ IMO. So bolognese sauce on a roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 So bolognese sauce on a roll? Sort of, but the majority of bolognese sauces I've had have tasted better. Here's Wiki's definition/pics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloppy_joe Regardless of what people think about the taste (different recipes could certainly taste different), it doesn't fall under my definition of BBQ (slow cooked meat) or even BBQ's other definition (grilled foods). It's a modification of hamburger without the grilling - more akin to hamburger helper types of foods. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I grew up in California and now I live in Utah. "We're having a barbecue" typically means "we are eating outside and are probably cooking some sort of meat on the grill." There may or may not be any barbecue sauce in sight. Typical food items are hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, potato salad, corn on the cob, and watermelon. Sometimes there might be steak or chicken. I don't think I've ever been to a barbecue that involves meat slow-cooked in barbecue sauce (if that's how it even works--I don't know). :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Grilled stuff. It's much more of a verb than a noun for us. (NJ-raised) From RI and yes - more verb than noun. "Come over for a BBQ" means - we're grilling and we might be eating outside. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Goodness, the things you can learn on here! :) There is no such thing as a grilled or fried hot dog though. That would just be a grilled or fried saveloy. Hot dog means a saveloy that you simmer. And don't tell me I'm wrong, or I'll start talking about The Dress. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Here (where I live now in Western Canada), when people say barbecue, they mean the act of grilling something on the grill. They are, of course, very, very, very wrong. Barbecue is slow cooked meat (usually brisket or pork or ribs -- any or all of that holy trinity) cooked using a covered grill over coals and wood chips, and must include a most spectacular concoction of savoury and sweet spices and herbs blended and simmered into the sacred sauce that is then brushed upon the meat at the very end of the cooking with some extra served alongside for all to marvel at its holy goodness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 I am sad at what means "barbecue" in some areas. Some of y'all are tragically deprived. I know what you mean. I cannot express the depth of my disappointment when, in my first summer here, I was invited for BBQ -- and it was burgers and hot dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Someone call my name? Ahem, um, let's see, in our house, we use these terms interchangeably: Ground hamburger with sauce = sloppy joes or barbecue Grilled meat = grilling or barbecue Backyard party = cookout or barbecue Pulled pork/beef/chicken = pulled or barbecue pork/beef/chicken Barbecue is just a nice word and should be used to describe as many things as possible. :lol: I love your first line! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Here in California "a BBQ" is an event where some sort of meat is grilled and people generally eat outside. However, I have seen enough cooking shows to really want to try some "BBQ". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 around here, barbecue at home usually means cooking something on the grill (hamburgers or hotdogs or steak or chicken). if people go out to barbecue, the restaurant serves smoked meats...ribs, pork, brisket, etc. But then, there are "chicken barbecues" which are usually fundraisers where a barbecue place comes to a church or school and grills chicken that has been marinated in a vinegar and herb sauce over a charcoal grill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Barbecue is either a picnic like event where some of the food is cooked on the spot on a grill OR it is a type of preparation for pork or beef or chicken meat. We have no unique regional BBQ style here but in general, we tend to mess it up with copious amounts of sauce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Where I live in the land of bad BBQ, "BBQ" apparently means camping overnight on a city sidewalk. Yep word on the street is camping for at least 2 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Chicken kebabs, snags, steak etc... Anything cooked on a BBQ including corn cobs cooked in the husks. So good! And if it's Australia Day (aka invasion day) there will be lamb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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