What's the difference between a cook out and a BBQ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 year old thread

It's never too late to legislate proper usage of English.

I hope by now we all understand that you can't barbecue chicken

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We invite friends over to grill or for BBQ, but some if the nurses where I practice use the term "cook out" - is that a different thing?

Cook out is burgers and hotdogs and no BBQ. BBQ is just BBQ.

[Anonymous]

Splitting hairs. Grilling/cooking out/bbq I’d expect some sort of food cooked on a grill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Southerners don't say barbecue unless they mean it. Grilling out is grilling out. If you don't know what it means to barbecue, you have never done it and have probably only grilled out.

Thank you. Or they had a “cook out” or “threw something on the grill”.
Barbecue is a totally different thing.

[Anonymous]

Well, you can’t have a pig-pickin and expect chicken with barbecue sauce on it

[Anonymous]

Nothing.
If someone invited me to one or the other, I would imagine the same event.

[Anonymous]

Black folks will invite someone to a cookout. White folks will invite someone to a bbq. They're all going to the same party.