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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I was invited to this "barbecue" and arrived to be served these options, I would be somewhat bummed and feeling misled. [/quote]

Then host your own damn BBQ and quit bitching about free food other people took time to buy and cook. [/quote]

I'm hosting a cookout with burgers, chicken, etc. because I don't have time to cook barbecue.  My guests all know the difference (even the ones who grew up in regions with confused definitions) ... they're educated like that. [/quote]

Are you serious? I grew up in the north and a bbq was anything and everything that was cooked on a grill and outside. Doesn't really matter what was served. I then moved to NC where bbq meant slow cooked pig and/or close cooked pulled chicken. Then I moved here and I still refer to any kind of grill party as a bbq. I have only known that strict definition of slow cooked meat in the south. Get a grip. Some terms mean different things to different people. It has nothing to do with being "educated". [/quote]

I think that's PPs point ... however condescending s/he's being ... that calling anything on a grill 'barbecue' or grilling 'barbecuing' is technically incorrect and different terms may have different meanings, but some of those meanings are wrong. It's a pet peeve of some southerners, partly because it's reflective of broader attitudes that northerners can use terms incorrectly and it doesn't matter but southerners get knocked for being ignorant when they use colloquial jargon (or just poor grammar).  [/quote]

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