You Forgot the Sauce
I was talking to my friend Trix today and we were discussing what's on the menu for dinner tonight. She is having Chinese and I'm having BBQ hamburgers. This confused her a great deal. She asked if I meant grill. I asked her to explain the difference. I'm always curious to see how terms are interchanged depending on region (soda vs pop vs coke for example).
11:09:58 AM trix wants to go home: maybe i'll get chinese food tonight 11:10:11 AM shep: oh, that sounds delicious 11:10:19 AM shep: i'm going to BBQ some hamburgers 11:10:31 AM shep: cause it's supposed to be like 64 today 11:10:34 AM trix wants to go home: bbq them or grill them? 11:10:46 AM shep: what's the diff? 11:10:57 AM trix wants to go home: doesn't bbq involve bbq sauce? 11:11:02 AM shep: yes 11:11:06 AM shep: so i'm bbqing them 11:11:09 AM shep: hence why i said bbq 11:11:10 AM trix wants to go home: ahhh ok 11:11:13 AM trix wants to go home: never heard that 11:11:22 AM shep: heard what? 11:11:27 AM shep: bbq hamburgers? 11:13:52 AM trix wants to go home: yeah 11:14:00 AM shep: really? 11:14:10 AM trix wants to go home: yes 11:14:15 AM shep: you've never heard of hamburgers with bbq sauce on them? 11:14:19 AM trix wants to go home: like a hamburger with bbq sauce on it? 11:14:21 AM trix wants to go home: no 11:14:22 AM shep: really? 11:14:23 AM shep: wow 11:14:25 AM shep: really? 11:14:42 AM trix wants to go home: maybe some weird specialty burger at a restaurant 11:14:45 AM trix wants to go home: but not at home 11:14:56 AM shep: they are grilled 11:14:58 AM shep: then sauced 11:15:06 AM shep: and cooked for a few minutes with sauce on them 11:15:11 AM trix wants to go home: weird 11:15:12 AM shep: just like any other bbq 11:15:13 AM shep: omg 11:15:15 AM shep: seriously? 11:15:16 AM trix wants to go home: lol 11:15:23 AM shep: how have you not heard of bbq hamburgers 11:15:25 AM trix wants to go home: must be a southern thing
I'm completely dumbfounded by this conversation. Really. I understand people not from St. Louis never hearing of BBQ pork steaks. Pork steaks are traditionally a St. Louis area thing. It really shocks me that something as simple as BBQ hamburgers could seem so foreign to someone who lives only 5 hours away, near Chicago. I mean, when I think of summertime, I think of BBQs with friends and family, BBQing burgers and dogs. Do these "cook-outs" (and not BBQs) have signs posted that say "No Sauce Allowed"? Something I thought was "as American as apple pie" I find out is something that others have never heard of. So Trix, do you know what apple pie is?
BTW, St. Louis is NOT Southern.