BBQ: It ain't a verb

[triangleforge]

Springtime, and a young man's thoughts turn to firing up the smoker...

The BBQ Song

[duccarlos]

Memphis in May.

[Speedbag]

Gonna fire up mine this weekend. 

[Porsche Monkey]

Mine goes year round.  It will be going this weekend as well.  Non of this burgers and weenies shit either. 

[NoisyDante]

Mine goes year round as well.  I have a good friend here who's from Texas, he takes his BBQ very seriously.  Once I heard something rummaging around on my patio, thought it was a whole troop of raccoons, turned out it was David trying to get over the fence so he could start smoking the pork at 5am.

[il d00d]

BBQ is too a verb.   The most dedicated BBQer I ever met referred to it simply as "Q-ing".  He spent up to 24 hours smoking his brisket, and measured success not just in taste but smoke ring depth.  Anything less than about half an inch was considered amateurish.   Needless to say his "Q" kicked complete ass.

Words that are not verbs:
- gift
- text (especially "texted")

Words that are not adverbs:
- wirelessly

[KnightofNi]

BBQ is not a verb.

you make BBQ

your manufacture a car, you don't car.
you make a sald, you don't salad some lettuce.

[Triple J]

BBQ isn't a word...it is an abbreviation.

The word barbecue is both a noun and a verb, although only the verb useage is officialy recognized.

Examples

Traditional verb usage recognized by dictionary: I am going to barbecue some chicken tonight.

Meat Lovers usage, not recognized by dictionary, but what do those book learnin' morons know anyhow: Lets go get some barbecue for dinner. or Carolina barbecue kicks ass on Texas barbecue.

[Speedbag]

Non of this burgers and weenies shit either.

That's just grilling. 

[il d00d]

BBQ is not a verb.

you make BBQ

your manufacture a car, you don't car.
you make a sald, you don't salad some lettuce.

Wait.  Don't you live North of the Mason-Dixon line?  If so, you don't count.  Sorry.  I don't make the rules about where people live that don't know what they are talking about





As a goodwill gesture, I won't comment on how to properly pronounce clam chowdah, or why youse is the improper use of the word y'all.

[fouramdesigns]

Wait.  Don't you live North of the Mason-Dixon line?  If so, you don't count.  Sorry.  I don't make the rules about where people live that don't know what they are talking about





As a goodwill gesture, I won't comment on how to properly pronounce clam chowdah, or why youse is the improper use of the word y'all.

Roger that! You haven't lived BBQ till you've hit Dreamland in Tuscaloosa. Or that hole in the wall  by the airport in Memphis, or the man with the smoker that looks like a T Model Ford.

[somegirl]

That's just grilling. 

Just to confuse things further, in the UK grilling means broiling.

[SacDuc]

Just to confuse things further, in the UK grilling means broiling.

What is broiler but an up side down grill? They can be used for many of the same purposes. The broiler is always the standby if you run out of propane. Of course neither is actually BBQing.

sac

[Popeye the Sailor]

Just to confuse things further, in the UK grilling means broiling.

Don't listen to the vegan. She knows nothing of grilling.

[somegirl]

Don't listen to the vegan. She knows nothing of grilling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling#UK_and_Ireland