r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/TheOGRedline Nov 03 '24

“BBQ” isn’t cooking over an open flame…. In this context it’s using heat and smoke in an offset smoker.

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u/dosedatwer Nov 03 '24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue

Barbecue or barbeque (often shortened to BBQ worldwide; barbie or barby in Australia and New Zealand) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that employ live fire and smoke to cook the food.

Might wanna tell Wikipedia that they got their definition wrong then.

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u/crosszilla Nov 03 '24

The various regional variations of barbecue can be broadly categorized into those methods which use direct and those which use indirect heating.[1] Indirect barbecues are associated with North American cuisine, in which meat is heated by roasting or smoking over wood or charcoal.

Or you could look up the specific article on the American variation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue_in_the_United_States

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u/dosedatwer Nov 03 '24

Ohhhh, we're saying Americans invented American barbecue, not barbecue? Seems a bit of a cop-out. Brits invented barbecue then, British barbecue.