Barbecue

And just to get this off my chest because I've been perturbed by some commercials I've heard lately. In the South the term Barbecue refers to a way of slow-cooking meat (most often pork) which is consumed either by itself with fixins' or on buns as a sandwich. The act of inviting friends over and grilling food (of any sort) on a grill in the summer time is called a "cook-out", not a barbecue. If you said you were having a barbecue people might assume you were preparing the slow-cooked delight yourself with your smoker. And just to confuse any northerners out there we also have fish-frys. It's like a cook-out only we deep-fry fish in a cooker outdoors and serve it with hushpuppies and coleslaw (which are actually good with barbecue, too.) Please see this for a better example of how these terms are used elsewhere.