Jun
16
2010
Why do people who live "up North," I assume, insist on calling an outdoor cooking device a "barbecue?"
A grill is NOT a barbecue. Barbecue is MEAT cooked in a certain slow way over certain types of wood. Also the word barbecue can be used to mean a party, as in "We are going to a barbecue tonight." Barbecue is MEAT, not a cooking device. Learn from people in the South where barbecue started. Any thoughts?
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Because to us, a barbecue is a propane, gas, charcoal, or wood-fired cooking implement. It’s also an event where the food is generally cooked on a barbecue. A grill is a flat metal grill that you fry things on, like in a restaurant.
It’s simply different names for the same thing – not uncommon in the English language: lift=elevator, pop=soda, windshield=windscreen, etc. We may all speak basically the same language, the there are different "dialects" (for want of a better word) of it spoken. We use different terms for the same things, that doesn’t make one wrong and the other right – just different.