Coming out of lunch today, I noticed a sign across the street for a new Japanese Restaurant. "Sushi BBQ". If Sushi is RAW fish, then how, possibly, could it be barbequed?
Becky offered a suggestion.
"Maybe it's sushi with barbeque sauce on it."
I contend that in order to have your food BARBEQUED, you have to have it cooked on a grill. Cooked being the key word here. The sauce is just a flavoring, which is necessary, but not the key component.
"Well, if you get chicken with barbeque sauce on it, what do you call it?" Becky asks.
"I call it Barbequed Chicken." I reply.
"What if it wasn't cooked on a grill?"
"Well, at least it was cooked!!"
Regardless of what an item with barbeque sauce is called, I contend it must be cooked to be barbequed. Sushi cannot be barbequed, period.
Plus, who would want barbeque sauce on fish anyway? YUCK!!
2 comments:
Here is some "fuel" for your argument
From wordnet at Princeton University - definition of
barbecue
n 1: meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce [syn: barbecue] 2: a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit [syn: barbecue] 3: a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors [syn: barbecue]"
tr.v. bar·be·cued, bar·be·cu·ing, bar·be·cues
To roast, broil, or grill (meat or seafood) over live coals or an open fire, often basting with a seasoned sauce.
so with this in mind it do you think it should never be called "BBQ Sauce", but "sauce for barbequing"?
Thanks for that extra boost for my case. Should bbq sauce be called sauce for bbqing? I, indeed, think just that. It's another unfortunate case of terms taking on a new meaning.
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