Exploring How BBQS Were Invented

Barbecuing is actually a global happening but exactly where did it all start..?

Woah Cowboy!

Some say barbecues truly began in the late 1800s when the Wild West’s cowboys chowed down on rough cuts of meat while on cattle drives.
Slices so tough that only a considerable amount of tenderizing would allow for the meat to become chewed and ingested successfully.

Chewy, tough briskets might take more than five hours tobe able to tenderize - a reasonably long time for any dusty cowboy to wait to get his well-earned dinner.

However, as the cowboys undoubtedly loved their own slow-cooked meats, barbecues go way back before the time of swinging saloon doors and the OK Coral.

So far back in fact, that it can’t have been long after rubbing several sticks together and being faced with
their initial flames, that our forefathers discovered the benefits associated with cooking meat on an open
fire.

Returning to Barabicu
The original source of the word bbq - or barbeque, BBQ, Barbie, or braiia as it’s known in South Africa - is
not guaranteed.

However, consensus would be that the word arises from ‘barabicu’, which means ‘sacred fire pit’.

This specific word was used by the Taino people from the Caribbean and the Native Americans Timucua of
Florida.

This particular sacred fire pit was a hole in the earth covered with leaves, in which the people would take
their meat, and set it alight and slow cook it.

A further suggestion for the source of the term ‘barbecue’ was that it derived from the French barbe à queue,
that means beard to tail, following French visitors to the Caribbean observed a whole pig being roasted.

This is now considered highly unlikely and simply a case of terms appearing alike.

Pig Roasts and the Southern States

Whatever the precise roots of the Word, the first thing is for certain, barbecues grew to become big
business, or should that be pig business?
It was because in part to the pigs within the southern states of North America.

These pigs were a easily available food along with were low upkeep, but had been semi-wild and their meat was much tougher compared to our present day, reared hogs.

Barbecuing would be a method of cooking the actual pigs and having the most from the meat.

With stringy pigs to be consumed, bbqs soon became the favored method of feeding a sizable crowd and locals might collect with each other to eat the pig.

In the middle 1800s plantation owners would have large bbqs and in the nineteenth century, bbqs came into
common use at political rallies and church picnics, along with at private celebrations.

There was clearly no question that - the Southern loved their own BBQs… and still do.

Along with all of those other USA.

The World Wide BBQ

Despite being the epicentre of the barbecue, the united states doesn’t hold the monopoly.

Citizens all over the world love feasting on food cooked within the heat of a fire whether it be fire pits,
charcoal barbeques and gas bbqs.

And lots of of these people may lay claim that it was their own ancestors that invented the barbecue.

Even though in reality, anyone with use of fire may declare it for themselves.

Bbqs really are a long and proud custom.

In Argentina the ‘gauchos’ who work the cows on the Pampa flatlands eat asados - grilled meats - in the open air.

In Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, bbqs are called asados these kinds of meat staples.

Within Greece, bbqs enjoy a crucial role during the yearly Easter celebrations with throw lamb taking centre
stage.

Some are put on present day motorized rotisseries however others are turned by hand for a long time.

Family and friends are calledas on to take turns winding the arm and the barbecue will be theis a focal point
for a wonderful gathering.

The Australians adore their barbies a great deal that free or coin run barbecues can be found in quite a lot
of their town parks - meaning they can, and they do, toss another prawn on the barbie.

All the President’s Burgers

But, each of us can just about all lay claim to the actual bbq to a certain degree, there are not many
individuals who can say they’ve seen their own president or prime minister getting to grips with a chicken
wing or pork sausage.

Unlike the Americans.

Barbecues have been a White House tradition for years.

It was Lyndon B Johnson that very first threw a BBQ there dishing up bbq ribs.

While in the 1970s Jimmy Carter and his wife provided a ‘pig pickin’ for 500 guests including many foreign
dignitaries, a lot of whom most likely didn’t understand its ribs from their sausages.

And ex cowboy acting professional and later president Ronald Reagan often invited guests to his ranch for a
barbecue feast.

George H Bush loved to hold an annual bbq for the Members of Congress and his child, George W Bush, carried on the tradition when he afterwards ecame president

This traditional Barbecue ended up being stopped on September 12 2001, the day following the enemy attacks on the World Trade Centre and also the Pentagon.

The barbecue was cancelled and the White House presented the 700 pounds of beef tenderloin that had been purchased for the occasion to the countless rescue workers that had arrived at Washington to help