If a friend invites you over for a BBQ, you show up, and they’re putting hot dogs on a grill, that’s not a friend worth having.
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This a Chinese bbq, American bbq, or Haitian bbq?
Is there any context where it would be acceptable?
Only hotdogs???
If they’re too dumb not to realize that BBQ is a technique, and a grill is a piece of equipment, you have better ways to spend your day. Also look up the amount of rat hair that is legally allowed in hotdogs by the FDA.
Now if it’s a cookout . . .
tagging @zecarlo because he’s racist or whatever.
I think that’s considered good manners in Chicago.
As a current native I can attest those are foreign words. People here have no tastebuds. Except the Native Americans - that culinary scene is amazing.
Exactly. That’s a cookout: not a BBQ.
Totally agree
dump the friend
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Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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Yeah, everyone here likes to brag about how tough they are because life sucks but they’re surviving.
TBH, I’m proof of that, because I’m wasting time bitching on an internet forum since I’m a day late for my trt dose and mad my wife wants me to organize the front closet for winter.
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Oh shit, you’re right.
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I realized slowly but surely, I have no friends.
I get called to move pianos. Cut down trees. Split wood.
But when there’s ribs being cooked?
No SkyzykS. 
. Like “who’s that? The guy that poured our concrete patio? Never heard of him.”.
Then they tell me about them later. While we’re replacing the river rocks in their flower bed. By hand.
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See, here the two meat for me (pun foreshadowing). I had a buddy who was a forever bachelor and a foodie that got a new job with a very soon start date. He needed help moving. Dude had 1 boxspring, 1 bookshelf…and 3 smokers, 4 grills, a sous vide, 3 freezers, etc. But along with all that, he had a TON of meat IN said freezers that he had NO chance of possibly eating before he moved…so that’s how I got paid.
I felt like a Viking. Go in, load up all the goodies onto the ship, then feast on the spoils.
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That sucks. And I hate it too. I would love to have a buddy to call me at zero-dark-thirty to move, build, or play a piano. I can do all three and would bring coffee.
I think that being “intimidating” is what sucks.
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If you were ever near by and I was having a work party that involved a food payout, you’d be the first call.
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I keep opening up a standing offer to folks to swing into Nebraska so we can train until we bleed and then eat meat until we heal to do it all over again. A Valhalla in Earth, as it were.
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Well there it is then! @Brant_Drake You ever in the Burgh, we’re cutting down the neighbors trees. Its a property line, really, but they’re gonna drop their way.
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You guys know I’ll actually pull the trigger on this, right?
I want to have an epic eating contest with @T3hPwnisher, which I will pay for no matter who wins.
And from @SkyzykS I want a custom badass axe to cut down the trees. No Idea how to fly that back, but I’ll figure it out.
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