No one “grills” or “cooks out” in Canada. If it’s cooked outside on the barbeque (yes, barbeque) then it’s barbequed. It doesn’t matter what it is.
Yeah, that’s known as a “Dalmatian rub” in Texas. I was just asking, because I’d be surprised to find a smoked brisket that has less seasoning than salt and black pepper.
depends how the word is used. “Barbecue” is a slow cooked process. It should be worded as “beef barbecue”. “Barbecued” is anything thrown on a barbeque grill. It should be billed as “barbecued beef”. “Barbecue sauce” is a concoction used as a condiment after cooking and can be anything.
my 2c.
Same in Oz. Cooked outside over burning wood? Or coals? Or gas? It’s a barbecue. Especially if some random male who doesn’t know his way around a kitchen is doing it.
My ideal 'que (seldom found) is any style - but cooked by a purist.
This is not some international street festival food, where you combine the Flavors of Diversity into a new and creative endeavor. This is the cuisine of people who didn’t range too far from home and used what they had around until it became tradition.
Chauvinism isn’t just some spontaneous internet peeing contest here - it’s part of the nature of the product. I want to taste it.
My thoughts exactly, though I’d swap “and hopefully” for “with”. Both can be delicious.
Wrong as hell. Barbecue is almost exclusively a noun. Most people in the South never use it as a verb.
So what? Most of the people in the South thought slavery was a good idea, too. They’re wrong. 
(So am I, a lot of the time. I’ll say “Let’s go eat some BBQ.” But I am mis-using the word when I do.)
But grilling is not barbecueing, no matter what the Canucks, Kiwis and [del]Convicts[/del]Aussies say. That is The Line In the Sand, the Hill To Die On.
As an aside, there needs to be a corollary to Godwin’s Law covering the inclusion of the topic of slavery in any discussion that involves the South.
Right on!
Not about BBQ. Its always a noun, unless you’re from up north and think grilling is “barbecuing”.
Here it is from Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1756
No notes on the manner of cooking or “dressing” there, but evidence that the word has been used as a noun for over two hundred fifty years.
Thats right damit! Its even in the US Constitution if you look carefully. Or was it in the Declaration of Independence (aka we are gonna party and have BBQ and frack you you British wankers)? I look forward to the day the Supreme Court finally hears Mustard vs Vinegar so can get this shit straightened out once and for all.
The point was that barbecue has a long history of being used both as a noun and a verb.
If I say I am going to barbecue, that means low and slow. Might be ribs, might be pulled pork, might be brisket.
If I say I am going to grill, or cook out we are talking about grilling steaks, chops, chicken or fish.
If someone invites me to a BBQ, I will expect it will be some type of grilling.
Sauce has nothing to do with it.
Really? With this court? State’s rights mean nothing if they are going to use the power to mustardize BBQ sauce. We need a new Sherman to march through South Carolina and bring those heathens to justice. Starting with Laurens County, which is my family’s ancestral breeding ground.
My uncle lives on a farm outside Laurens. His home was built before the civil war. Beautiful place.
Ya gotta be able to slip (or maybe slap) another shrimp on it 
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To me, there are two conditions for a barbecue - the food has to be cooked outside, and it has to be eaten outside. Beyond that, anything’s cool.
Except that no one here calls 'em shrimp. 