Well It Happened......

[baza]

Went to a barbecue on Saturday, why do we bother, food not cooked properly through, sharing with all sorts of flying bugs. Eating from paper plates with plastic cutlery. Wasps dive bombing your beer.
We sent our convicts to Australia and they sent us barbecues back not a fair exchange.

[EcclesCake]

Please tell me you also had the ubiquitous pasta and potato salads?

[andy-hughes]

I have never understood the appeal of barbecues!

For all the reasons above - just why do we torture ourselves by eating bad food outside in Third World conditions, and telling ourselves we are having a good time.

Out of good manners, I have attended any and every barbecue I have been invited to, and I have yet to even vaguely enjoy the experience once!

[chaptazbru2]

Aww I love barbecues, never have a problem myself with the food !

[Mamyalynne]

Not a fan of Barbecues either, the only thing I love to eat outdoors is Fish and Chips out of paper at the seaside.

[baza]

Not the pasta but the potato salad that someone had said "It's home made" which they failed to say who by.
Balancing a paper plate on your knees whilst trying to eat as there is never enough tables.

[andy-hughes]

Mamyalynne - that's about as 'outdoors' as I like to get - unless it is eating outside when food is cooked and prepared inside - I can do that at a push.

[dave50]

I don't get it either. If you want to eat outside, cook it in your kitchen then bring it outside, so much easier.

[Fusion5]

I am also not a fan of barbecues. Fatty sausages, burgers etc etc. Swotting flies, wasps and anything that buzzes. Yuk !

[EcclesCake]

A good BBQ is a thing of joy, it's just a shame that it is such a rare beast, rather like the chicken drumsticks that get served up so often......

[andy-hughes]

EcclesCake - // good BBQ is a thing of joy, it's just a shame that it is such a rare beast, rather like the chicken drumsticks that get served up so often...... //

I can only assume that I have never attended a 'proper' barbecue - but that would probably mean a trip to Australia.

Some things just don't import well - barbecues are one - skateboarding is another!

[baza]

Food black on the outside and raw in the middle, I know that a bit of charcoal can assist the digestion but not a sausage worth.

[murraymints]

you all need to come to my barbie ! they are very good..everyone loves them..as long as you let the coals turn to non smoking hot ash..perfect food....all kinds ..usual bangers burgers ribs chicken ..but also foil wrapped salmon...vegetables ..halumi etc etc...

[scorpiojo]

..when's the next one? :)

[EcclesCake]

Cooking on a BBQ is not an exclusively Australian talent!

The mistake frequently made in the auk is buying low quality produce and believing you can feed the hungry hordes within 15 minutes of lighting the charcoal.

There seems to be something built into the British psyche that a BBQ must involve vast quantities of meat, far beyond what we'd normally entertain. Panic quickly kicks in as the 'chef' realises they cannot give everyone a sausage, burger, drumstick, steak, kebab in a timely fashion. They then have another beer and don't worry so much about the botulism burgers :-(

[excelsior-1]

invitation accepted - - just tell me where and when

i'll even bring a contribution

[Mamyalynne]

I won't deny foods can be beautifully cooked on a BBQ and there are many dishes you can do than the usual - but it's the whole not enough seats, balancing plates ans drinks , flying pests etc etc.

[Mamyalynne]

Does auk barbecue well?

Legs it.

[ladyalex]

I wholeheartedly agree about barbecues....in fact I do not enjoy eating outside much at all.
It is always either too hot or too cold (the weather I mean, the food is invariably too cold, burnt on the outside and raw on the inside).
On the few occasions that I have had a barbecue outside abroad (Spain or Portugal ) I haven't enjoyed it much either. Again the food was burnt and raw, there were loads of biting insects and the weather was too hot...especially for the cook. (Not me...I refuse to give anyone food poisoning by accident.....intentionally now, that's a different story ;-))
Fish and chips out of the paper is as far as I will go.
Don't even like picnics .....the sandwiches are squashed, the hot drinks are cold, moan, moan, whine, whine....I'm best left indoors.

[EcclesCake]

Shhh Mamya, I'm still trying to work out what auk was meant to be.......

[Mamyalynne]

'in the UK'?