Top 173 Barbecue Quotes & Sayings

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

You are such an optimist. My Spidey-sense is tingling all over the place. (Tory) That’s from eating the ice cream. Relax. (Acheron) Relax. Trust me. It’ll be all right. Isn’t that how I ended up dead? (Danger) Stop feeding her anxiety. (Acheron) Anxiety. The Simi’s never eaten that before. Is that tasty? (Simi) Not really. (Danger) Oh. Maybe we should put barbecue sauce on it. Everything’s better with barbecue. (Simi)

The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue.

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.

I'm not a huge fan of North Carolina barbecue. I like Memphis style barbecue and Kansas City.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

American barbecue is all slow and low, you know, or low and slow, as they say down in the South, in Texas. But Korean barbecue is thinner cuts of meat.

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it is a fat steer, and must be eaten within an hour of when it is cooked. For if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef -- staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

We all know you can't have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

(The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.) Excuse me. I almost made Dark-Hunter barbecue, which would be really sad ‘cause I ain’t got no barbecue sauce with me. (Simi)

The Simi gots some barbecue sauce in her bag. It kind of looks like blood if you squint at it the right way. And it don’t coagulate between your teeth like blood or give you them funky burps, not to mention it tastes a lot better too. Especially over that type A stuff. Bleh! I’d rather eat my shoes. But that O-flavored blood…yum! (She straightened and held one finger up in a gesture that strangely reminded him of Smokey the Bear.) And just remember, kids, three out of four demons all prefer barbecue sauce over hemoglobin. (Simi)

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

When you think about a barbecue, most people think of slabs of ribs, but you don't need to do that in today's culinary barbecue world. Short ribs, barbecue chicken, skewered shrimp, vegetable kebabs, lobster mac and cheese with or without the lobster, and a donut bread pudding for dessert that's absolutely amazing. These are things that are safe whether you're a novice or a professional. Be creative and stay within your culinary pantheon.

Barbecue chips, Lay's in particular are my favorite. If you have anything barbecue around me, I'm pretty much nibblin' on 'em.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.

I am a big barbecue-sauce guy.

Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could swear his expression meant, Duh. "I've also discovered a new form of magic called blues music," the man continued. "And barbecue. Yes, you must try barbecue.

We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.

The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.

He won’t last long, akri. Thanatos is barbecue. And I like my barbecue. Just tell me how you want him, akri, normal recipe or extra crispy. I’m partial to extra crispy myself. They crunch louder when deep-fried. Reminds me, I need some bread crumbs. (Simi)

I would like to barbecue those Olympian gods. They are very tasty. One day, I’m going to eat that redheaded goddess, too. (Simi) She doesn’t like Artemis. (Astrid) The Simi hates her, but akri says, ‘No, Simi, you can’t kill Artemis. Behave, Simi, don’t shoot fire at her, don’t make her bald, Simi.’ No, no, no. It’s all I hear. I don’t like that word. ‘No.’ It even sounds evil. The Simi tends to barbecue anyone dumb enough to say it to her. But not akri. He’s allowed to say no to me; I just don’t like it when he does. (Simi)

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Comfort is key for a barbecue.

The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

I've never really been a barbecue guy.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

I love barbecue, it's my favorite thing to eat.

Come on outside when you?re done,? I told her. ?It?s like the barbecue of the damned. Except . . . there?s no grill.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.

I'm a culture person when I'm working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.

There are two different things: there's grilling, and there's barbecue. Grilling is when people say, 'We're going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.' Barbecue is going low and slow.

My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

The meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on

I definitely enjoy my barbecue.

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

Good barbecue has to fall off the bone when you grab it, and, to me, it's not pull-hard chewy.

There are a lot of barbecue sauces. But I've been using Head Country barbecue sauce for 20 to 25 years, which is manufactured in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It's just awesome and has tremendous flavor. Many professional cooks use it and it can be found at Kroger and Walmart stores around the country. I use the Original, which has a white label and is a classic. But there's also a hickory flavor, called Hickory Smoke and one that has a little heat.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.