Top 70 Barbecue Quotes

In Canada, you can’t even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don’t beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it’s true, it’s true.

I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great.

I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he’s family? That’s how I felt with ‘Fighter and the Kid.’ People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

The Turks are fantastic barbecuers. They have these long barbecue pits called Mangals. The food smells wonderful and has a smoky, charcoaly taste.

I’ve never really been a barbecue guy.

I came through the Sixties so I was perfectly aware of drug-taking but I came from South Africa and we were brought up in quite an old-fashioned way. If I went to a rave or a party, I’d be behind the barbecue flipping the burgers. I wasn’t out there partying.

There’s nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I’ve got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I’m taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues – a coal, gas and smoker – so I can experiment a lot.

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

My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

I felt like I couldn’t meet a single rich person. Regardless of where I live, they don’t want to talk to me. I threw a barbecue and invited the whole neighborhood, and nobody showed up.

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

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

At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

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

I’d have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I’d just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

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

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I’ll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture.

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it’s sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

I made a point to have ‘mini-adventures’ on the road. In Tucson, that meant swinging by a massive airplane graveyard. A quick detour through the Grand Tetons was a Wyoming highlight. We stopped for cheese in Wisconsin and barbecue in South Carolina.

The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

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

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

We used to be called the Dixie Chickens. Then we played at a barbecue place, and they had a sign saying, ‘Featured Tonight: The Dixie Chickens,’ and everybody started ordering it for dinner! So we shortened it.

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

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn’t put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue.

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

One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It’s cheaper than McDonald’s in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is – you know, it’s an industry kind of ruining North Carolina.

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.

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

Every year, I do a New Year’s day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese.

When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I’m obsessed with – one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

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

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

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

I definitely enjoy my barbecue.

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

Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there’s just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There’s always something to do. Always.

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

The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you’re showing up for a backyard barbecue.

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.

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

I’m not a normal person with normal tastebuds, so I’ll save you all from cringing/dissing on my late night flavour pairings, but I will say when I was a kid, with little to no access to anything but my mother’s pantry, I’d dip everything in ranch dressing, Miracle Whip, katsup, barbecue sauce, honey, mustard, etc.

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

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, ‘what a great barbie’ to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes’ pastime, isn’t it?

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Dad was known for his barbecues at weekends and bubble and squeak on Sundays. We’d all have to set the table and clear the table. We had our own seats, totally structured.

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they’re always put together by people who don’t cook.

Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It’s so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

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