The difference between Barbecue and BBQ!
Having hailed from New England, when we hear the word Barbecue, what we think of is hamburgers and hotdogs cooked in someones backyard, then served on paper plates with some chips, myabe some potato salad. I literally had NEVER heard of BBQ before I moved to Kansas City. A humurous story when we moved here, we got asked to go out to a BBQ restaurant for dinner. For the life of me, I could not figure out why I would go out to get hot dogs and hamburgers. I finally worked up the courage to ask, and of course got a laughing response. I was told to trust the family that took us that we would like BBQ in Kansas City, and I have not looked back since.
The difference between Barbecue and BBQ is HUGE. BBQ is catching on now in the northeast now that there have been two competitve tv shows on it. We are even beginning to see the “yuppification” of BBQ with the advent of in kitchen “cookers” that make BBQ. Basically companies are selling crock pots made in a BBQ style to basically boil meat. Nothing wrong with it if you like the taste of that kind of meat.
Myself, I will stick with my Backwoods and my Guru!